Maranatha! four (1974): B5 Wing & A Prayer - Jesus Is Standing Here

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Maranatha! four
Label: Maranatha! Music ‎– HS-777/10
Released: 1974
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Gospel
Orchestra Arranged By– David Diggs
Producer, Photography – Tom Stipe

Tracklist
A1 The Road Home - Since I Met Jesus (Bill Sprouse)
A2 Mustard Seed Faith - All I Know (Preston Bing Fong)
A3 Chuck Butler - Pearly Mansions (Chuck Butler)
A4 Blessed Hope - So Much (Bill Bradford)
A5 Good News - Pickin' Up The Pieces (Erick Nelson)
B1 The Way - Have You Ever Heard (Dana Angle, Gary Arthur)
B2 Children Of The Day - The Holy Spirit Song (Peter Jacobs)
B3 Karen Lafferty - Bird In A Golden Sky (Karen Lafferty)
B4 Wing & A Prayer - Old Gray Ford (Tom Stipe)
B5 Wing & A Prayer - Jesus Is Standing Here (Tom Coomes)

Maranatha 4 also includes several essential songs that are unavailable elsewhere. The Way's dreamy rural rock track 'Have You Heard' stands as one of the group's finest songs, as does Mustard Seed Faith's melodic orchestrated pop number 'All I Know'. On the mellow side this time is Blessed Hope's 'So Much', as well as Chuck Butler's (of Country Faith) Girard-ish 'Pearly Mansions'. Country rock is explored on 'Since I Met Jesus' by The Road Home, a group led by Bill Sprouse that also included Ed McTaggert of Daniel Amos on drums (an earlier version of the group recorded a pre-Christian lp on the mainstream Dunhill label). Tom Stipe and Al Perkins join 3/5ths of Love Song for two tunes under the name Wing & A Prayer, 'Old Gray Ford' and 'Jesus Is Standing Here', the latter an absorbing ballad with a wispy ethereal mood. Also lp cuts by Good News, Children Of The Day and Karen Lafferty.