| Stir It Up | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Imperials |
| Cover: | Imperials Stir It Up.jpg |
| Released: | 1992 |
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| Length: | 39:41 |
| Label: | Star Song |
| Producer: | Paul Mills |
| Prev Title: | Big God |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Treasures |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
Stir It Up is a 1992 studio album by Christian music vocal group The Imperials. It is the group's third album on Star Song Records.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The personnel line-up for this album consists of Armond Morales, David Will, Jonathan Pierce (still under his birth name Jonathan Hildreth) and Pam Morales. In 1993, Pam Morales would retire from the group after the release of Stir It Up and Pierce also left the group and a year later was offered a spot on Bill Gaither's southern gospel quartet the Gaither Vocal Band and a couple of years later started his solo recording career in contemporary Christian music. This would be the final full album of the Imperials' commercial contemporary pop sound of previous albums as the group would undergo another lineup change and a return to their four-part harmony of their early years. The album's first radio single "Taking Your Love for Granted" would give the group their final number one song on the Christian radio charts. The Imperials have had number one songs in three decades from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Stir It Up climbed up to number 20 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart.[5]
The Imperials
Musicians
Production
Tony Cummings of Cross Rhythms gave Stir It Up 7 out of 10 saying that producer Paul Mills "gives the group some nice funky synth-pop arrangements full of 1992 appeal though I'd love to know what the youth thinks of a group manned in part by grizzled wrinkles targeting music splat them. My favorites on this set are 'Taking Your Love For Granted,' an infectious midtempo throbber, and the somewhat slower and funkier 'We're All Looking.' American audiences can seemingly turn out quality pop gospel like this at will, and I can imagine quite a few Christian jocks giving this a radio airing."
| Year | Singles | Peak positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCM AC[7] | CCM CHR[8] | |||
| 1993 | "Taking Your Love for Granted" | 1 | 3 | |
| 1993 | "We're All Looking" | 2 | — | |
| 1993 | "Change the World" | — | 14 | |
| 1993 | "Standing on the Rock of Love" | 14 | 9 | |
| 1993-94 | "Stir It Up" | — | 4 | |