''Dancing with Danger'' is the second album by

Leslie Phillips Leslie Samuel Phillips (20 April 1924 – 7 November 2022) was an English actor, director, producer and author. He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases. ...

, released in 1984 on

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. The album peaked at number 20 on the ''

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'' Top Inspirational Albums chart.

Critical reception

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wrote that "while the focus of the album is on dance music, Phillips' pop smarts are already evident, and her songwriting is unconventional (especially for Christian music)."

Track listing

All songs written by Leslie Phillips

Side one

# "Dancing with Danger" (remix) – 3:29 # "I Won't Let It Come Between Us" (remix) – 4:32 # "Strength of My Life" (guest vocals by

Russ Taff Russell Taff (born November 11, 1953) is an American gospel singer and songwriter who grew up in Farmersville, California. He has sung a variety of musical styles throughout his career including: pop rock, traditional Southern gospel, contempora ...

) – 5:34 # "Give 'em All You've Got (Tonight)" – 4:24 # "By My Spirit" (with Matthew Ward) - 4:43

Side two

# "Hiding in the Shadows" – 3:52 # "Powder Room Politics" – 2:40 # "Light of Love" – 4:17 # "Song in the Night" – 3:52 # "Here He Comes with My Heart" – 2:48

CD bonus track

# "By My Spirit" (Radio version) – 5:42

Personnel

* Leslie Phillips – lead vocals, backing vocals * Jeff Lams – keyboards, arrangements (3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10) * John Andrew Schreiner – keyboards, arrangements (8) *

Dann Huff Dann Lee Huff (born November 15, 1960) is an American record producer and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the ''Musician of the Year'' award in 2001, 2004, and 2016 at the Co ...

– guitars, arrangements (1, 2, 4) *

Nathan East Nathan Harrell East (born December 8, 1955) is an American jazz, R&B, and rock bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degr ...

– bass *

Carlos Vega Carlos Vega (December 7, 1956 – April 7, 1998) was a Cuban-born Los Angeles-based session drummer best known for his performances with James Taylor. As a part of the L.A. studio scene from the late 1970s through the 1990s, Vega contributed to ...

– drums *

Victor Feldman Victor Stanley Feldman (7 April 1934 – 12 May 1987) was an English jazz musician who played mainly piano, vibraphone, and percussion. He began performing professionally during childhood, eventually earning acclaim in the UK jazz scene as ...

– percussion * James Hollihan – backing vocals * Buddy Owens – backing vocals *

– backing vocals *

Greg X. Volz Gregory Xavier Volz (born January 12, 1950) is a Christian rock singer. He is most noted for being the lead singer of Petra from 1979 to 1985. He has continued to sing, sporadically, for different iterations of Petra such as Classic Petra (201 ...

– backing vocals * Matthew Ward – backing vocals

Production

* Brad Burkhart – executive producer * Dan Posthuma – producer * Jeremy Smith – tracking engineer * Mike McClain – vocal engineer * Bill Deaton – additional engineer * John Early – additional engineer * David Schober – additional engineer * Bud Wyatt – additional engineer *

Bill Schnee William S. Schnee (born July 4, 1947) is an American musician, music producer, and audio engineer. Schnee has been nominated 11 times for the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Grammy Award and worked on a multitude of other Grammy nominated an ...

– mixing * Mike Reese – mastering * Steve Hall – remastering * Bradley Grose – photo concept *

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– photography * Vigon/Seireeni – art design Studios * Mixed at Eagle Audio Recording (

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). * Originally mastered at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California). * Remastered at Future Disc (North Hollywood, California).

Charts

Radio singles

References

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