With My Song (1980)

With My Song is the fifth solo album by American singer Debby Boone. It was Boone's second album of 1980 and was released around June of that year, a couple of months after she released her mainstream country album Love Has No Reason. When album sales of her previous mainstream albums were down and not enough radio airplay in either pop or country, Boone retreated to Christian music, where she would have more success in that genre in subsequent releases throughout the 1980s.

With My Song was issued by Lamb & Lion Records and was, at the time, distributed by Word Records. This is Boone's first full-length album of Christian/

Gospel material and was produced by Brown Bannister. Bannister brought in some top songwriters and musicians to help shape the album, such as Reba Rambo and Dony McGuire, Pam Mark Hall, Dawn Rodgers, Leland Skyler, Country singer Janie Fricke, Donna McElroy, Marty McCall (before First Call), Diana DeWitt and others. Christian pop group GLAD provided backing vocals on the track "A New Song" written by GLAD member Bob Kauflin. "Lord, I Believe" and the title song were released as promotional singles to Christian radio. Boone also does a cover of Bob Dylan's "What Can I Do For You," originally recorded by Dylan on his 1980 album Saved.

With My Song climbed to number 9 on the Billboard Top Inspirational Albums chart, giving Boone her first Top 10 album on an album chart since her number 6 appearance on the Billboard 200 three years earlier with You Light Up My Life. In 1981, Boone won her second Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for her album at the 23rd Grammy Awards and won her first Dove Award for Gospel Album of the Year by a Secular Artist at the 12th GMA Dove Awards.

With My Song was later distributed by Benson in 1981, then in 1984 by Sparrow Records. Sparrow later reissued the album on CD in 1992. Curb Records currently is now the distributor of this release since 2008.

Track listing

1. Sweet Adoration (Brown Bannister, Dawn Rodgers, Lynn Sutter-Adler) -2:55

2. If Ever (Pam Mark Hall) -4:35

3. With Every Breath (Bryan MacLean) -2:23

4. With My Song (Reba Rambo, Dony McGuire) -4:00

5. I Am Stone (Phill McHugh) -4:35

6. Lord, I Believe (Shane Keister, Alice Keister) -3:20

7. Morningstar (Pam Mark Hall) -4:46

8. A New Song (Bob Kauflin) -3:36

9. The Twenty-Third Psalm (Marty Goetz) -2:51

10. Holy Father (traditional; arranged by Brown Bannister) -4:02

11. Sixty Second Sonata (Bob Farnsworth) -1:31

12. What Can I Do For You (Bob Dylan) -3:00

Accolades

Grammy Award -Best Inspirational Performance (With My Song)

Dove Award -Gospel Album of the Year by a Secular Artist (With My Song)

Previous release: Love Has No Reason (1980)

Next release: Savin' It Up (1980)