''Music Machine II'' (AKA ''The Music Machine: All About Love'') (1983) is a

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children's album Children's music or kids' music is music composed and performed for children. In European-influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has hi ...

by Candle that is a continuation of the Music Machine album from 1977. It is set in

Agapeland Candle is a Christian kids' band that is best known for their Agapeland-related children's albums ''Music Machine'' and ''Bullfrogs and Butterflies''. They recorded children's albums for Sparrow Records' Birdwing branch. The band won the 1988 Do ...

, and teaches children about the Love. It features the characters Stevie and Nancy. It is part of a series of spin-offs of Music Machine albums, books, and Music Machine movies. This album is the winner of the 1983

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for "Children's Music Album of the Year," and it was Nominated for the 1983 Grammy Award "

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Track listing

#"When Love Lives in Your Heart" (J. Miller) - soloist Betsy Hernandez #"Tune Up Song" (J. Miller, B. Miller) - soloists Julie Miller and Buddy Miller #"The Greatest Thing of All" (J. Miller) - soloist Nathan Carlson #"Love Never Fails" (J. Miller, R. Krueger) - soloist Buddy Miller #"Glad to be Me" (J. Miller, B. Miller) - soloist Ben Roberts #"I Was Made for Love" (J. Miller, B. Miller) - soloists Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Heather Stevens, and Ben Roberts #"Sloop Song" (B. Hernandez, B. Miller) - soloists Wayne Zeitner, Heather Stevens, and John Swartzbaugh #"Bee Humble" (S. Simonson) - soloist Jeremy Stevens #"I Love You" (R. Krueger) - soloist Heather Stevens #"Love Waits A Long, Long Time" (F. Hernandez) - soloist Frank Hernandez as Herbert the Snail and Herbert's mom #"Everybody Needs a Lot of Love" (R. Krueger) - soloist Buddy Miller #"I Love You, Lord Jesus" (J. Miller) #"The Greatest Thing of All (Reprise)" (J. Miller) #"When Love Lives in Your Heart (Reprise)" (J. Miller)

Credits

*Story by - Agape Force *

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- Tony Salerno *

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s - Tony Salerno, Fletch Wiley, and Ron Krueger *

Arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

s - Fletch Wiley, Buddy Miller *

Recording Engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

s - Wally Duguid, Brian Tankersley, and Bob Singelton *Recorded at - Rivendell Sound Recorders in Pasadena, Texas, Robin Hood Studio in Tyler, Texas, Easter Song Studio in

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, and Omega Audio in Dallas *Mastered at - Future Disc Systems in

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by Steve Hall *Mixing Engineer - Ron Capone *Mixed at - Westwind in

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*Cover and inside art - Mark Pendergrass

Characters

*Mr. Conductor - Wayne Zeitner *Stevie - John Swartzbaugh *Nancy - Heather Stevens *Sloops - "Various Sloops"

Musicians

* Vocalists - Candle *Children's Choral - Agapeland Singers * Piano - Allen Mesko *

Drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s - Pat Bautz *

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- Dan Smith * Guitar - Buddy Miller *

Synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

s - Allen Mesko and Si Simonson * Trombonist - Doug Hinschberger * Percussion - Gene Clover * Concertmaster -

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References

Sources

1983 Dove Award winners
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