''Love Beyond Reason'' is an album by

Randy Stonehill Randall Evan Stonehill (born March 12, 1952) is an American singer and songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music. His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but ...

, released in 1985, on

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. The album contained the hit single, "I Could Never Say Goodbye," which was a duet with singer

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. Grant had recently become one of the biggest names in

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, and had crossed over into the mainstream with her '' Unguarded'' album. Stonehill also released a ''Love Beyond Reason'' Video collection in 1985 on

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and Beta, which included videos of "Love Beyond Reason," "Until Your Love Broke Through," "Hymn," "You're Loved Tonight," "Still Small Voice," (from Stonehill's '' Celebrate this Hearbeat'' album) and "The Gods of Men."

Track listing

All songs written by Randy Stonehill except where otherwise noted. Side one # "I Could Never Say Goodbye" (Duet With Amy Grant) – 3:34 # "Love Beyond Reason" – 3:36 # "The Gods of Men" – 4:12 # "Bells" – 4:19 # "You're Loved Tonight" – 5:47 Side two # " Until Your Love Broke Thru" (

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, Todd Fishkind, Randy Stonehill) – 4:01 # "Hymn" – 2:46 # "Angry Young Men" – 3:36 # "Judgement Day" – 4:54 # "Cross That Line" (Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard) – 3:31 **Bonus track, available only on cassette and CD version # "The Gods of Men" (Extended Version) – 6:12

Personnel

* Randy Stonehill – acoustic guitar, lead vocals (1–8, 10), backing vocals (1–7, 10), all other vocals (5), all vocals (9) * Barry Miller Kaye –

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* Andrea Saparoff – Fairlight CMI programming, Fairlight orchestral arrangements (7) * Denver Smith – additional synthesizers (1),

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technician (1) *

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– lead guitars (1), guitar solo (2), "golden" guitars (3) * Milo Carter – guitars * Don Griffin – guitars *

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– additional guitars (10) * Steve Wilkinson – bass * David Raven – drums * Tim "Repo Man" Aller – Simmons drum programming * Rick Geragi –

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(1, 2, 9),

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s (1, 6, 9),

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(8),

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(8), percussion (9) * Barry "The Bear" Liss –

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solo (8) * Jay Leslie – soprano sax solo (9) *

– lead and harmony vocals (1) * Caryn Robin – backing vocals (1, 2, 7) *

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– backing vocals (1–3, 5–8), featured backing vocal (2, 8) *

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– backing vocals (3, 5–7), featured backing vocal (3, 7) *

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– backing vocals (4), featured backing vocal (4, 6) * Tonio K. – backing vocals (10)

Production

* Executive Producers – Ray Ware and Tom Willett * Produced and Arranged by Barry Miller Kaye *Engineered and Mixed by

at Fingerprint Recorders (Montrose, California). * Second Engineer – Dan Reed * Basic Tracks recorded using the Fingerprint Recorders Mobile Unit at the Sound Vault Studios (

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). * All Fairlight CMI textures developed by Barry, Andrea and Randy at the Computer Music Lab,

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(

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). * Fairlight CMI Technicians – Jeff Forehan at Byte Size Productions for High Tech Instruments; and Bob Garrett at C.S.U.N. * Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc Systems (

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). * Art Direction and Design – Roland Young * Cover Photography – Lisa Powers * Make-up – Dolli Melaine * Group photo taken by Rose Berger at the La Brea Studios (Hollywood, California). * Additional photos by Ray Ware * Management – Ray Ware Artist Management

References

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