Start Believin' Explained

Start Believin'
Type:	studio
Artist:	Steve Camp
Cover:	Start Believing.jpg
Released:	1980
Recorded:	1980
Studio:	Chicago Recording Company (Chicago, IL)
Genre:	Christian rock disco
Label:	Myrrh
Producer:	Morris Butch Stewart
Prev Title:	Sayin' It with Love
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	For Every Man
Next Year:	1981

Start Believin' is a Christian rock album by Steve Camp and was released by Myrrh Records in 1980.^[1]

Track listing

1. "The Feeling is Happening" (Morris "Butch" Stewart) - 6:02
2. "You Are the Rainbow" (Steve Camp) - 3:12
3. "Easy Livin' (Under the Sun)" (Camp) - 3:05
4. "Ambassador in Chains" (Camp) - 3:51
5. "Start Believin'" (Camp, Stewart, David Isaiah Radford) - 4:46
6. "Under His Love" (Camp, Larry Norman) - 3:35
7. "Do They Have to Grow Up?" (Paul Libman) - 3:56
8. "I'll Always Need You Lord" (Stewart) - 5:47
9. "Bobby" (Camp) - 5:19
10. "Psalm 131" (Camp) - 2:10

Note: Never released on CD

Production

• Morris "Butch" Stewart – producer
• Steve Camp – co-producer
• Paul Libman – co-producer
• Hank Neuberger – recording, mixing
• Phil Bonono – additional engineer
• Gary Elgehammer – additional engineer
• Tommy Hanson – additional engineer
• Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Michael Harris Design – art design, concept
• Michael Borum – photography

Personnel

• Steve Camp – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 4–9), arrangements (2–6, 9, 10), acoustic piano (9), guitars (10)
• Paul Libman – acoustic piano (1–8), clavinet (1), arrangements (2, 4–7), horn and string arrangements (2–7, 9), acoustic piano solo (4, 5), electric piano (6, 8, 10), backing vocals (7), Polymoog (9)
• Lonnie Reaves – electric piano (1), acoustic piano (8)
• Byron Gregory – guitars (1, 3–9)
• Beau MacDougall – guitars (1, 8)
• Rich Maisel – guitars (1, 3–9)
• Joe Godfrey – guitars (2, 7)
• Tony Brown – bass (1, 3–9)
• Steve Rodby – bass (2, 7), string bass (10)
• Wayne Stewart – drums (1, 3–9)
• Tom Ratdke – drums (2, 7)
• James Hampton – percussion (10)
• Ken Soderblom – English horn (3)
• Morris "Butch" Stewart – arrangements (1, 5, 8, 9), horn and string arrangements (1, 6, 8), backing vocals (1, 3–9)
• Kitty Haywood – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
• Ricky Linton – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
• Brenda Mitchell – backing vocals (1, 3–9)
• Mary Ann Stewart – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
• Alfonso Surrett – backing vocals (1, 4–9)
• Lilian Tynes – backing vocals (1, 4–9)

Horn section

• Ken Soderblom – alto saxophone
• Jack Baron and Ken Soderblom – tenor saxophone
• John Haynor, Art Lisner and Cy Touff – trombone
• Ron Friedman, Arthur Hoyle, Russ Iverson and Bobby Lewis – trumpet
• Arthur Hoyle and Bobby Lewis – flugelhorn
• Dale Clevenger and Thomas Howell – French horn

String section

• Philip Blum and Leonard Chausow – cello
• Richard Ferrin, Harold D. Klatz and Roger Moulton – viola
• Sol Bobrov, Joseph Golan, Samuel Magad, Arnold Roth and Fred Spector – violin

Notes and References

1. Christian Music Archive, Start Believin'