The Season of Love
The Season of Love is a Christmas album, as well as the fourth studio album, of the contemporary Christian group 4Him. It was released on Benson Records on October 1, 1993.
Due to its original success among 4Him's works, the album was re-issued on September 30, 1996, with a new album cover and art.Track listing
- All vocal arrangements by Don Koch and 4Him except "The Little Drummer Boy" by Bill Baumgart.
Personnel
- Numbers in parenthesis symbolize track numbers.
4Him- Andy Chrisman – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Mark Harris – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Marty Magehee – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Kirk Sullivan – lead vocals, backing vocals
Musicians- Don Koch – rhythm arrangements, keyboards, additional keyboards, programming, track arrangements, piano
- Blair Masters – Hammond B3 organ, programming, keyboards
- David Huntsinger – keyboards
- Bill Baumgart – programming
- Jerry McPherson – guitar
- Dennis Dearing – guitar
- Mark Baldwin – guitar
- Michael Hodge – guitar, guitar solo
- Jackie Street – bass
- Craig Nelson – bass
- John Hammond – drums
- Mark Hammond – drums
- Mark Douthit – saxophone
- Sam Levine – saxophone
- Chris McDonald – brass arrangements
- Brass – Chris McDonald, Barry Green, Mike Haynes and Jeff Bailey
- Ralph Carmichael – orchestral arrangements
- The Nashville String Machine – orchestra
- Choir – Bill Baumgart, Chris Willis, Mark Ivey, Angelo and Veronica Petrucci, Rick Elias and Linda Elias
Production- Don Koch – producer
- Ralph Carmichael – producer
- Andy Ivey – executive producer
- Mark Quattrochi – production assistant
- Mike Murray – production assistant
- Bill Deaton – engineer
- Tom Laune – engineer
- Lynn Fuston – engineer
- Keith Compton – engineer
- Bill Baumgart – engineer
- David Murphy – engineer
- Bret Teegarden – engineer
- Brent King – engineer
- The Bennett House, Franklin, Tennessee – recording location
- Quad Studios, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location
- Sound Revolutions, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location
- Classic Recording, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location
- Skylab Studios, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location
- Great Circle Sound, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location
- Omni Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location
- John Jaszcz – mixing at Omni Sound Studios
- Patrick Kelly – mixing assistant
- Aaron Swihart – mixing assistant
- Ken Love – mastering at Master Mix, Nashville, Tennessee
- Mark Tucker – photography
- Connie Harrington – art direction
- June Arnold – grooming
- Claudia McConnell Fowler – hair stylist
1996 re-issue cover- Matt Barnes – photography
- Patrick Pollei – design
- Randall Lockridge – design
- Mike Rapp – art direction
- Jamie Kearney – wardrobe
- Melanie Shelley – stylist
