Start Believin'

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{{Infobox album

| name = Start Believin'

| type = studio

| artist = Steve Camp

| cover = Start Believing.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1980

| recorded = 1980

| venue =

| studio = Chicago Recording Company (Chicago, IL)

| genre =

| length =

| label = Myrrh

| producer = Morris Butch Stewart

| prev_title = Sayin' It with Love

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = For Every Man

| next_year = 1981

}}

Start Believin' is a Christian rock album by Steve Camp and was released by Myrrh Records in 1980.Christian Music Archive, [http://www.christianmusicarchive.com/album/start-believin Start Believin']

Track listing

  1. "The Feeling is Happening" (Morris "Butch" Stewart) - 6:02
  2. "You Are the Rainbow" (Steve Camp) - 3:12
  3. "Easy Livin' (Under the Sun)" (Camp) - 3:05
  4. "Ambassador in Chains" (Camp) - 3:51
  5. "Start Believin'" (Camp, Stewart, David Isaiah Radford) - 4:46
  6. "Under His Love" (Camp, Larry Norman) - 3:35
  7. "Do They Have to Grow Up?" (Paul Libman) - 3:56
  8. "I'll Always Need You Lord" (Stewart) - 5:47
  9. "Bobby" (Camp) - 5:19
  10. "Psalm 131" (Camp) - 2:10

Note: Never released on CD

Production

  • Morris "Butch" Stewart – producer
  • Steve Camp – co-producer
  • Paul Libman – co-producer
  • Hank Neuberger – recording, mixing
  • Phil Bonono – additional engineer
  • Gary Elgehammer – additional engineer
  • Tommy Hanson – additional engineer
  • Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Michael Harris Design – art design, concept
  • Michael Borum – photography

Personnel

  • Steve Camp – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 4–9), arrangements (2–6, 9, 10), acoustic piano (9), guitars (10)
  • Paul Libman – acoustic piano (1–8), clavinet (1), arrangements (2, 4–7), horn and string arrangements (2–7, 9), acoustic piano solo (4, 5), electric piano (6, 8, 10), backing vocals (7), Polymoog (9)
  • Lonnie Reaves – electric piano (1), acoustic piano (8)
  • Byron Gregory – guitars (1, 3–9)
  • Beau MacDougall – guitars (1, 8)
  • Rich Maisel – guitars (1, 3–9)
  • Joe Godfrey – guitars (2, 7)
  • Tony Brown – bass (1, 3–9)
  • Steve Rodby – bass (2, 7), string bass (10)
  • Wayne Stewart – drums (1, 3–9)
  • Tom Ratdke – drums (2, 7)
  • James Hampton – percussion (10)
  • Ken Soderblom – English horn (3)
  • Morris "Butch" Stewart – arrangements (1, 5, 8, 9), horn and string arrangements (1, 6, 8), backing vocals (1, 3–9)
  • Kitty Haywood – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
  • Ricky Linton – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
  • Brenda Mitchell – backing vocals (1, 3–9)
  • Mary Ann Stewart – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
  • Alfonso Surrett – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
  • Lilian Tynes – backing vocals (1, 4–9)

Horn section

  • Ken Soderblom – alto saxophone
  • Jack Baron and Ken Soderblom – tenor saxophone
  • John Haynor, Art Lisner and Cy Touff – trombone
  • Ron Friedman, Arthur Hoyle, Russ Iverson and Bobby Lewis – trumpet
  • Arthur Hoyle and Bobby Lewis – flugelhorn
  • Dale Clevenger and Thomas Howell – French horn

String section

  • Philip Blum and Leonard Chausow – cello
  • Richard Ferrin, Harold D. Klatz and Roger Moulton – viola
  • Sol Bobrov, Joseph Golan, Samuel Magad, Arnold Roth and Fred Spector – violin

References

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Category:1980 albums

Category:Steve Camp albums

Category:Myrrh Records albums

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