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- From: fsdlb1@acad3.alaska.edu
- Subject: Re: Mentioning "God" on the radio
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.172802.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:28:02 GMT
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- Since I have no idea about how to put parts of older messages into my post, I
- can't put anything from the "Mentioning God..." in here. Sorry.
- Anyway, I beleive the question was as to why Amy G. did not release 'Ask Me'
- or other similar songs to mainstream radio. The answer is related to the
- agreements between Word records and A&M. Word has responsibility for promoting
- Amy to the Christian market, and A&M has a similar job for mainstream. In
- other words, Word DID release 'Ask Me' to Christian radio where, like most Amy
- songs, it was quite succesful. A&M decided that Amy's more pop-style music
- would be more popular and have therefore not released this song (yet). A&M may
- still release 'Ask Me' to mainstream radio... then again maybe not. Amy really
- has no control of how the various company's market her product.
- I've been able to see Amy in concert several times and she always makes it
- quite clear that she is a Christian. Also, I've yet to hear ANY secular DJ
- refer to Amy as anything but "Popular Gospel Artist Amy Grant...". So any
- debate as to whether she has sold out or not is just plain dumb.
- Non-Christians are not stupid, they know perfectly well who Amy Grant is.
- Even though I have not followed MWS as close as I have Amy (Hey, Amy Grant is
- MUCH cuter ;-) , I suspect that he is in much the same situation.
- Christian artists need our support and prayers my friends -- not second
- guessing. Shalom.
-
- Derek
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