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

You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer)
Studio album by B. J. Thomas
Released	1979
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]

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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• B.J. Thomas – vocals
• Carl Greeson, Archie Jordan and Bobby Wood – keyboards
• Reggie Young – guitars
• Mike Leech – bass
• Jerry Kroon and Larrie Londin – drums
• Farrell Morris – bells, vibraphone
• Billy Puett – baritone saxophone, flute
• Buddy Skipper – tenor saxophone
• Bobby Taylor – oboe
• Roger Bissell and Dennis Good – trombone
• Don Sheffield and George Tidwell – trumpet
• Tom McAninch – French horn
• Roy Christensen – cello
• Marvin Chantry and Gary Vanosdale – viola
• George Binkley, Carl Gorodetzky, Shelly Kurland, Wilfred Lehmann, Steven Smith, Pamela Vanosdale and Stephanie Woolf – violin
• Mary Boone, Tom Brannon, Janie Fricke, Hank Martin, Donna McElroy, Donna McLaughlin, Donna Sheridan and Diane Tidwell – backing vocals
• Students of David Lipscomb Elementary School – children's choir
• Ann Elizabeth Lokey – choir director

Production

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• Archie P. Jordan – producer, arrangements
• Joe Wilson – engineer
• Glaser Sound Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) – recording and mixing location
• Jim Loyd – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Doug Abdelnour – photography
• Dennis Hill – design

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]

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 Inspirational LPs". Billboard. July 18, 1980. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
5. "22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards". grammy.com. Retrieved May 30, 2017.