Music Machine (album)
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Music Machine (1977) is a Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 children's album
Children's music
Children's music is used here to refer to music composed and performed for children by adults. In European influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment...

 by Candle
Candle (band)
Candle is a Christian band that is best known for their Agapeland related children's albums Music Machine and Bullfrogs and Butterflies. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch....

. It is set in Agapeland
Agapeland
Agapeland, or "Land Called Love," is a fictional place created for a series of children's Christian musical albums by Candle, Birdwing Kid's Korus, Barry McGuire, Tony Salerno, Jim and Dee Patton, and Agape Force in the 1970s and 1980s...

, and teaches children about the Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Fruit of the Holy Spirit is the descriptive name given by the Apostle Paul to a nine-point list of Christ-like attributes of a true Christian life. In the...

. It features the characters Stevie and Nancy. It spawned a series of spin-off Music Machine albums albums, books, a video game and Music Machine movies
Music Machine (1991 film)
Music Machine, known more commonly as The Music Machine, is a 1991 animated video made by Anthony Paul Productions and Bridgestone Group, directed by Leo Salkin. It is based on Samuel Wright's story of the same name, and the Music Machine albums. The film also spun off a partially animated series...

 too.

Track listing

  1. "A Land Called Love" (Frank Hernandez / Sherry Saunders)
  2. "Music Machine" (Frank Hernandez / Jim Patton / Dee Patton)
  3. "The Whistle Song" (Frank Hernandez / Sherry Saunders)
  4. "Smile" (Georgian Banov / Winnie Cook-Banov)
  5. "The String Song" (Mark Pendergrass)
  6. "Patience (Herbert the Snail)" (Frank Hernandez / Sherry Saunders)
  7. "Gentleness" (Georgian Banov / Winnie Cook-Banov)
  8. "Faith" (Frank Hernandez / Sherry Saunders)
  9. "Joy" (Jim Patton / Dee Patton)
  10. "Peace" (Wayne Zeitner)
  11. "Goodness" (Mike Milligan)
  12. "Love" (Frank Hernandez / Sherry Saunders)
  13. "Self Control" (Mike Milligan)
  14. "Kindness" (Georgian Banov / Winnie Cook-Banov)
  15. "Reprise" (Frank Hernandez / Jim Patton / Dee Patton)

Credits

  • Producer - Fletch Wiley
  • Executive Producer - Tony Salerno
  • Arranged by - Fletch Wiley
  • Cover and interior art - Mark Pendergrass, Paul Annan
  • Recording Engineers: Bob Pickering, Chuck Mandernach, Bob Cotton
  • Mixed by: Bob Pickering, Fletch Wiley
  • Recorded at: January Sound in Dallas, TX, Associated Recording Studio in Oklahoma City, OK

Vocalists

  • Adult singers - Candle
    Candle (band)
    Candle is a Christian band that is best known for their Agapeland related children's albums Music Machine and Bullfrogs and Butterflies. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch....

  • Stevie - Winton Nicholson
  • Nancy - Jeanne Vetter
  • Soloists - Wayne Zeitner, Mark Pendergrass, Frank Hernandez, Pennie Motter, Sherry Saunders, Mike Killigan, Georgian Banov, Jeanne Vetter
  • Children singers - The Agape Force Prep School, Lindale, TX, World Challenge, Inc. in Lindale, TX

Musicians

  • Drum
    Drum
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    s - Gerry Beaver and Steve Houghton
  • Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s - Hadley Hockensmith
  • Bass Guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    s - Jake Pittman, Bob Parr, Hadley Hockensmith
  • Keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

     - George Bea, "Whitey" Thomas, Harlan Rogers
  • Synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

     - Tom Autry
  • Trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

    s - Galen Jeter and Joe Rodriguez
  • Trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

    s - Bill Guthrie, John Osborne
  • Clarinet
    Clarinet
    The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

    s - Art Osborne
  • Flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

     and Piccolo
    Piccolo
    The piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The piccolo has the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written...

    - Pat Greenler
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