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Friday, December 6, 2013

Day 19 - Point of Grace - The Great Divide

19. Point of Grace - The Great Divide
From the album The Whole Truth (Word Records, 1995)


Point of Grace charted 6 #1 singles on their 1993 eponymous debut album, an achievement no other artist in any genre of music has been able to match. Before them Gloria Estafan and Mariah Carey both held the record for #1 singles from a debut album with 4. The Great Divide turned out to be yet another #1 single from the female quartet who are known for their great trademark harmonies. The ladies have a long term agreement that they won't record a song unless all 4 of them really like it and their tastes in music has paid off for them.

Songwriter Grant Cunningham has a line in the chorus that says "there's a bridge to cross the great divide," but at one point he accidentally transposed two of the words and wrote "there's a cross to bridge the great divide." The dual meanings of both words works perfectly and what was a typo turned out to be a very clever line. The ladies loved the "mistake" and decided to keep it in the song.

The Whole Truth remained at #1 on the Christian Albums Chart for 11 weeks and in the top 10 for 45 consecutive weeks. The Great Divide peaked at #1 on the Christian Adult Contemporary Chart. They won a Dove Award in 1996 for Group of the Year and also won Doves for Pop/Contemporary Recorded Album of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year.

Here is the original album version of the song.


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