Zion - Heaven In His Eyes (featuring Rich Mullins)

Track 8 from Zion's album, Behold The Man. 16 years after this recording, 9 days before his untimely death, Rich Mullins re-recorded a demo of this song for his upcoming project which would ultimately be "The Jesus Record". The studio version on that album featured lead vocals from Michael W. Smith.

From Wikipedia:

Behold the Man is the only album by the band Zion, released in 1981. It is best known as the recording debut of Christian singer/songwriter Rich Mullins (1955-1997), who wrote all of the songs on the album.

In the late 1970s, Mullins left Cincinnati Bible College to work with Zion Ministries. While there, he also sang and played in the band, which went by the name Zion. Soon after the release of the album, one of Amy Grant's managers, Mike Blanton, received a copy of it and recognized "Sing Your Praise to the Lord" as the perfect song for Grant to include on her album, Age to Age (1982). Amy Grant recorded the song, which became a hit, and resulted in a publishing contract for Rich Mullins. Later, Rich began his professional recording career on Blanton's record label, Reunion Records, with his self-titled debut album in 1986.

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• Amy Grant
• Michael W Smith

[elilutz]

Can you tell me how you posted this as Audio only on youtube? I have quite a bit of Richard's music I'm considering posting for everyone who might be interested, but can't find out how to do it. Thx!

[theentrtnr]

@elilutz Hey elilutz, I sent you a message through YouTube explaining the process. God bless!

[hylander89]

AWESOME RENDITION!!! or is this actually RICH singing? its hard to tell.....

[theentrtnr]

@hylander89 That is actually a very young Rich singing! It's the only track on the album that he performed solo. Glad you enjoyed it! It's one of my favorite Rich songs.

[trustfund82]

A great legend. The songs always move me even today.

[laserhawk]

@dstively I made/entered/ripped (whatever) a copy of my tape, that i made from my album into an MP3 file. it has some scratches and warbles, but it's there. reply if you are interested in sending you a copy.

[laserhawk]

I was in Cincy at the time Rich was and learned to love his music at the time. I must know some of you posters...

-Chris

[dstively]

If you have this album, we probably know each other. I grew up in KY and Rich was my youth leader in Erlanger. I had the album and mistakenly loaned it back to Rich sometime in the mid-80's (because he lost his) and he lost mine. No big surprise there, but I'd love to have another copy. Do you know anyone who has one?

[2Bouse]

Rich played this in my church in the early 80''s- my junior high youth group got to see a man so in love with the Lord, and so humanly real. He was an is a witness to the love of Christ , in Whose arms he lives fprever!