Song:I Believe
Album:The Singles
Blessid Union Of Souls scored a top ten hit in 1995 with I Believe. Some of their other songs charted but that is the one memorable song. They were formed in Cincinnati in 1990 by lead singer and pianist Eliot Sloan, guitarist Jeff Pence, bassist C.P. Roth and drummer Eddie Hedges. Sloan and Hedges were previously in the band The Movies. Roth toured with Ozzy Osbourne. Sloan and Pence wrote most of the songs. The band name comes from a line in an episode of M*A*S*H. A demo got them a deal with EMI Records. I Believe was the first single from Blessid Union Of Souls' 1995 album Home. Cincinnati DJs played the song enough that it caught on nationally and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was produced by Matt "Emosia" Senatore who owned a Cincinnati recording studio. He wrote I Believe with Sloan and Pence. Senatore was involved in Blessid Union Of Souls' development but only as a producer. He was never a member of the band. Blessid Union Of Souls is frequently compared with Hootie and the Blowfish because they are a mixed race band. But I don't think the bands are similar. Blessid Union Of Souls seems to have gospel or Contemporary Christian (CCM) leanings. It might have turned out better for them if they had been in EMI's CCM label Sparrow. Because EMI Records was closed in 1995 and the 1997 album Blessid Union Of Souls was on Capitol. Then they were moved to V2 for the 1999 album Walking Off The Buzz. Bouncing around like that within EMI's corporate maze probably didn't help them get a decent promotion budget. So EMI dropped them after three albums. This comp covers their EMI recordings. Sloan still leads a version of Blessid Union Of Souls. They released a Contemporary Christian album in 2011. Here's the video for I Believe by Blessid Union Of Souls.
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