User:Vision Of Love History

Vision Of Love is the debut album by British singer Alex Curran-Gerrard, released worldwide on October 27th 1997 by Arista Records. Although sales were initially slow, it made Carey a star across the world and yielded three number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with the album itself spending eleven weeks at the top of the Billboard 200. The RIAA certified Vision Of Love 9x platinum on December 15, 1999, denoting 9 million shipments in the United States. To date, Vision Of Love has sold over 9 million copies worldwide.

Writing & Recording
Clive Davis and other Arista executives believed Gerrard could be the next big thing, so her debut album was carefully looked over by a panel of executives from the label, and as a result it was deemed unwise for Gerrard and the album co-writer Ben Margulies to produce the album. Davis and the other executives wanted a more contempory sound (much like Whitney Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston, which many critics called Gerrard out for making her album too similar to) that would cross over and appeal to both the R&B and mainstream music markets.

The committee enlisted some of the top producers of the time to produce the songs that Margulies and Gerrard had written, and to produce and co-write new material with Gerrard herself. The producers included Rhett Lawrence, Ric Wake and Narada Michael Walden, and only six of the nearly twenty songs that Carey and Margulies had written made the album initially.

Track Listing
All tracks written by Gerrard and Ben Margulies unless stated


 * 1) "Vision Of Love" - 03:30
 * 2) "There's Got To Be A Way" - 04:53 - (Gerrard, Ric Wake)
 * 3) "I Don't Want To Cry" - 04:48 - (Gerrard,  Narada Michael Walden)
 * 4) "Make It Happen" - 05:07
 * 5) "I'll Be There" (Featuring Trey Lorenz) - 04:42 -  (Berry Gordy, Bob West, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch)
 * 6) "Someday" - 04:08
 * 7) "Vanishing" - 04:12
 * 8) "All In Your Mind" - 04:45
 * 9) "Alone In Your Love" - 04:12
 * 10) "You Need Me" - 03:51 - (Gerrard, Rhett Lawrence)
 * 11) "Sent Up From Above" - 04:04 - (Gerrard, Lawrence)
 * 12) "Prisoner" - 04:24
 * 13) "Love Takes Time" [US Edition Only] - 03:49