You Gave Me Love (When Nobody Gave Me a Prayer) is the twenty-first studio album and third gospel album by American singer B. J. Thomas, released in 1979.
Track listing
"Using Things and Loving People" (Hal David, Archie P. Jordan) - 3:27
"Jesus on My Mind" (Jerry Gillespie) - 3:18
"You Gave Me Love" (Archie P. Jordan, Claire Cloninger) - 3:26
"The Faith of a Little Child" (Donna McLaughlin) - 4:20
"I'm Gonna See Jesus" (Archie P. Jordan) - 2:45
"Lord, I'm Just a Baby" (Archie P. Jordan, Teddy Wilburn) - 2:52
"What Your Love Did for Me" (Claire Cloninger, Archie P. Jordan) - 3:06
"I Need to Be Still (And Let God Love Me)" (Archie P. Jordan, Naomi Martin) - 2:45 "Love Has Arrived" (Kent Robbins) - 3:09 "He's Walking in My Shoes" (Hank Martin, Archie P. Jordan) - 3:07
Personnel
B.J. Thomas – vocals
Carl Greeson, Archie Jordan and Bobby Wood – keyboards
Reggie Young – guitars
Mike Leech – bass
Jerry Kroon and Larrie Londin – drums
Farrell Morris – bells, vibraphone
Billy Puett – baritone saxophone, flute
Buddy Skipper – tenor saxophone
Bobby Taylor – oboe
Roger Bissell and Dennis Good – trombone
Don Sheffield and George Tidwell – trumpet
Tom McAninch – French horn
Roy Christensen – cello
Marvin Chantry and Gary Vanosdale – viola
George Binkley, Carl Gorodetzky, Shelly Kurland, Wilfred Lehmann, Steven Smith, Pamela Vanosdale and Stephanie Woolf – violin Mary Boone, Tom Brannon, Janie Fricke, Hank Martin, Donna McElroy, Donna McLaughlin, Donna Sheridan and Diane Tidwell – backing vocals Students of David Lipscomb Elementary School – children's choir Ann Elizabeth Lokey – choir director
Production
Archie P. Jordan – producer, arrangements
Joe Wilson – engineer
Glaser Sound Studio (Nashville, Tennessee) – recording and mixing location
Jim Loyd – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) Doug Abdelnour – photography Dennis Hill – design
Chart performance
You Gave Me Love peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Best Selling Inspirational LPs in July 1980.
Awards
The album won the Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance in 1980.