Greatest Hits is an official compilation album by the Christian gospel music duo BeBe & CeCe Winans, released on November 12, 1996 by Sparrow and EMI Records.
It is a collection of twelve of their best songs that were hits on mainstream R&B radio as well as CCM radio from the late 1980s to mid 1990s like "Addictive Love," "I.O.U. Me," "Heaven," "Celebrate New Life" and "I'll Take You There." In addition, BeBe and CeCe recorded two new songs; a re-recording of their debut single "Up Where We Belong" which they originally recorded for their 1984 debut album Lord Lift Us Up and "Feels Like Heaven (With You)." BeBe and CeCe won a Dove Award for their re-recording of "Up Where We Belong" for Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year at the 29th GMA Dove Awards. Greatest Hits peaked at number 3 on the Top Gospel Albums, number 14 on the Top Christian Albums and number 93 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums charts in Billboard magazine. BeBe and CeCe would resume back to their solo careers until 2009 when they reunited for their next album Still.
Track listing
1. Intro/Count It All Joy (BeBe Winans, Allan Rich, Jud Friedman) (from Relationships) -6:31
2. Addictive Love (BeBe Winans, CeCe Winans, Keith Thomas) (from Different Lifestyle) -5:25
3. Lost Without You (BeBe Winans, Keith Thomas) (from Heaven) -4:15
4. For Always (BeBe Winans, Billy Sprague, Keith Thomas) (from BeBe & CeCe Winans) -4:05
5. Feels Like Heaven (With You) (BeBe Winans) (new recording) -5:37
6. It's O.K. (BeBe Winans, Keith Thomas) (from Different Lifestyle) -4:08
7. Meantime (BeBe Winans, Keith Thomas) (from Heaven) -5:10
8. Heaven (BeBe Winans, Keith Thomas) (from Heaven) -4:44
9. If Anything Ever Happened To You (Allan Rich, Jud Friedman) (from Relationships) -4:18
10. Celebrate New Life (featuring Whitney Houston) (BeBe Winans, Keith Thomas) (from Heaven)
-3:48
11. I.O.U. Me (Billy Sprague, Keith Thomas, Tom Hemby, Michael Rapp) (from BeBe & CeCe Winans)
-4:44
12. Up Where We Belong (Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jack Nitzsche, Will Jennings) (new recording) -5:05
13. Love Said Not So (backing vocals by The Winans) (BeBe Winans, Percy Bady) (from BeBe & CeCe Winans) -4:37
14. I'll Take You There (featuring Mavis Staples) (Alvertis Isbell) (from Different Lifestyle) -4:20
Production credits
Keith Thomas -producer (tracks 2 -4, 6 -8, 10, 11, 13 and 14)
BeBe Winans -producer (tracks 1 and 5)
Cedric Caldwell -producer (track 1)
Rhett Lawrence -producer (track 12)
Arif Mardin -producer (track 9)
Cory Rooney -producer (track 5)
Accolades
Dove Award -Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year ("Up Where We
Belong")
Radio singles
1997 "Up Where We Belong" -#2 Christian AC
Previous release: Relationships (1994)
Next release: The Ultimate Collection (2007) (Sparrow Records compilation)
Watch the music video of "Feels Like Heaven (With You)" here:
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