The First Pop Record I Ever Heard

Was an LP put out by the Christian non-profit organization World Vision, called Great Moments in Gospel Music, featuring, most notably for me, "Great is the Lord" by Michael W. Smith, and "Angels" by Amy Grant. It was released in 1987. I assume my parents got it around that time, and I have memories of listening to it sometime after we had recently moved to Spokane, which jives with that chronology.

I've always ascribed significance (I'm not sure what kind of significance, really, because it was a weird choice - see below) to the fact that the first pop album I ever bought on my own was We Can't Dance by Genesis, but I never thought far back enough to this record. I just dug it out of a box in the storage room.

Summer's half over. I have a couple more pieces to write before it's all over, and another project I'll announce in a month or two.