You Hold the Key

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| name = You Hold the Key

| type = Album

| artist = Beth Nielsen Chapman

| cover = Beth_Nielsen_Chapman_-_You_Hold_The_Key_Cover.jpg

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| released = 1993

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| genre = Country pop

| length = 49:15

| label = Reprise

| producer = Jim Ed Norman

| prev_title = Beth Nielsen Chapman

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Sand and Water

| next_year = 1997

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You Hold the Key is Beth Nielsen Chapman's third album ('Hearing it first' was her first, in 1980). It was released in 1993 on Reprise Records, and features a duet with British singer-songwriter and Mike + The Mechanics vocalist/keyboardist Paul Carrack, called "In the Time It Takes".

The title of this album, as well as the song title it is named after, are from a line in the song "Open Your Heart", by US singer Madonna.

Track listing

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| all_writing = Beth Nielsen Chapman, except where indicated

| total_length = 49:15

| title1 = I Don't Know

| length1 = 3:57

| title2 = You Hold the Key

| length2 = 4:06

| title3 = Dance with Me Slow

| length3 = 4:18

| title4 = Say It to Me Now

| length4 = 4:48

| title5 = When I Feel This Way

| length5 = 4:20

| title6 = Rage on Rage

| length6 = 4:19

| title7 = Only So Many Tears

| length7 = 4:08

| title8 = In the Time It Takes

| note8 = Duet with Paul Carrack

| length8 = 4:18

| title9 = You Say You Will

| writer9 = Beth Nielsen Chapman; Verlon Thompson

| length9 = 4:20

| title10 = The Moment You Were Mine

| writer10 = Beth Nielsen Chapman; Steve Dorff

| length10 = 3:31

| title11 = Faithful Heart

| writer11 = Beth Nielsen Chapman; Twila Paris

| length11 = 3:31

| title12 = Dancer to the Drum

| length12 = 3:39

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Production

  • Produced By Frank Filipetti, Paul Samwell-Smith & Jim Ed Norman
  • Associate Producers: Beth Nielsen Chapman, Danny Kee, Ivy Skoff
  • Recorded & Engineered By Keith Grant & Robert Tassi
  • Second Engineers: Donny Bott, Mark Capps, Robert Charles, Jon Dickson, Shawn McLean, Chris Ludwinsky, Fred Mercer, Adrian Moore, Brian Pollack, Thom Russo & Ben Wallach
  • Mixed By Frank Filipetti & Chris Lord-Alge
  • Mastered By Ted Jensen

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