You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer)

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You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer)
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Studio album by
Released1979
Studio Glaser Sound (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Gospel, Contemporary Christian
Producer Archie P. Jordan
B. J. Thomas chronology
Happy Man
(1979)
You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer)
(1979)
The Best of B.J. Thomas
(1980)

You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer) is the twenty-first studio album and third gospel album by American singer B. J. Thomas, released in 1979. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Using Things and Loving People" (Hal David, Archie P. Jordan) - 3:27
  2. "Jesus on My Mind" (Jerry Gillespie) - 3:18
  3. "You Gave Me Love" (Archie P. Jordan, Claire Cloninger) - 3:26
  4. "The Faith of a Little Child" (Donna McLaughlin) - 4:20
  5. "I'm Gonna See Jesus" (Archie P. Jordan) - 2:45
  6. "Lord, I'm Just a Baby" (Archie P. Jordan, Teddy Wilburn) - 2:52
  7. "What Your Love Did for Me" (Claire Cloninger, Archie P. Jordan) - 3:06
  8. "I Need to Be Still (And Let God Love Me)" (Archie P. Jordan, Naomi Martin) - 2:45
  9. "Love Has Arrived" (Kent Robbins) - 3:09
  10. "He's Walking in My Shoes" (Hank Martin, Archie P. Jordan) - 3:07

Personnel

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Production

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Chart performance

You Gave Me Love peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Best Selling Inspirational LPs in July 1980. [4]

Awards

The album won the Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance in 1980. [5]

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References

  1. "B.J. Thomas - You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me A Prayer)". AllMusic . Retrieved July 25, 2022.
  2. From liner notes
  3. From liner notes
  4. "Best Selling Inspriational LPs". Billboard. 18 July 1980. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  5. "22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards". grammy.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.