Thursday February 3, 2022 “Baby, Baby” Amy Grant
Although Amy Grant did not invent the contemporary Christian music (CCM) style of gospel music, she may have done the most to popularize it in the 1970s and 1980s before successfully crossing over to pop and country music. Her debut album was released on the Christian label Word's Myrrh Records in 1977 and it sold 50,000 copies during its first year, remarkable for a Christian album at that time.
Amy Grant would begin her transition from contemporary Christian music to pop with the 1986 duet she did with former Chicago band member Peter Cetera. That song, “The Next Time I Fall” would be a number one hit on the adult contemporary charts but it wouldn’t be until 1991 that she would have the same success as a solo artist with “Baby Baby”, today’s song which was written by Grant.
Her successes would continue in pop and country as well as with the CCM audience, but not as strongly with that latter group due to her new ‘secular’ themes. In a seemingly odd pairing Grant sang a duet with actor Kevin Costner on a cover of the Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" included on the soundtrack of his somewhat forgettable film The Postman.
Amy Grant has been nominated for nineteen Grammys and has won five of them, she also has twenty two Dove Awards given by the Gospel Music Association, recorded twenty albums and has sold over thirty million records. She is currently married to country star and extraordinary guitarist Vince Gill.
Stay safe and well…and OK maybe Amy Grant might have said this song was about the birth of her daughter but we shouldn’t let that prevent us from interpreting it any romantic way we choose.