Someday (Crystal Gayle album)

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Someday
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Studio album by
Released1995
StudioReflections Studio, Quad Magnum Studio, Sound Emporium, Sound Stage Studios and Secret Sound (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre Country, gospel
Length37:14
Label Intersound [1]
Producer Crystal Gayle, Bobby Wood [2]
Crystal Gayle chronology
Best Always
(1993)
Someday
(1995)
Joy & Inspiration
(1997)

Someday is the first gospel album by the American musician Crystal Gayle, released in 1995. [3] [4] It received a nomination for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album at the Grammy Awards. [5] Gayle had intended for years to do a gospel album, considering it to be a country music tradition. [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Orange County Register wrote that Gayle uses "a top-notch band, smart arrangements and her beautiful soprano to deliver an album that will satisfy listeners from the country music ranks as well as those who enjoy the religious works of Amy Grant and Stephen Curtis Chapman." [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Anchor Deep"Gary Harrison, Karen Staley3:12
2."Diamonds from Dust"Cindy Sterling, Brian Barrett2:53
3."My Old Friend"Jeff Silvey, Regie Hamm 3:42
4."He'll Be There"Robert Ellis Orrall, Spady Brannan, David Malloy2:41
5."I Saw the Light" medley:
a) "I Saw the Light"
b) "Somebody Touched Me"
c) "I’ll Fly Away"
d) "Jesus on the Main Line"

Hank Williams, Sr.
P.D.
P.D.
P.D.
4:26
6."Someday"Charles Bosarge, Tommy Greer, Mark Baldwin4:12
7."Ageless Dancer"Jess Leary, Bobby Taylor2:55
8."Where Dear Friends Never Part"Keith Little3:02
9."Would You Believe"Melvin Webb Jr., Bill Gatzimos2:56
10."I Know, I Know"Karla Worley3:20
11."I Believe" medley:
a) "I Believe"
b) "Amazing Grace"
c) "Old Rugged Cross"
d) "Softly and Tenderly"

Ervin Drake, Irwin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman
P.D.
George Bomer
Will L. Thompson
4:55

Personnel

Production

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