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Hotline is the third album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the band's first with Gordon Kennedy on guitars and the last with Home Sweet Home Records.[1]

Hotline
Studio album by White Heart
Released	1985
Genre	Christian rock
Label	Home Sweet Home Records / Myrrh
Producer	Mark Gersmehl, Billy Smiley
White Heart chronology
Vital Signs (1984) Hotline (1985) Don't Wait for the Movie (1986)

Track listing

1. "Hotline" (Billy Smiley, Scott Douglas) – 4:14
2. "Gotta Be A Believer" (Smiley, Mark Gersmehl) – 4:21
3. "Jerusalem" (Smiley, Gersmehl, Eddie DeGarmo, Dana Key) – 3:50
4. "Turn The Page" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 4:55
5. "She's A Runaway" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:40
6. "Heroes" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 4:36
7. "In His Name" (Gersmehl) – 4:14
8. "The Victory" (Smiley, Gersmehl, Gordon Kennedy, Larry Stewart) – 4:22
9. "Walls" (Gersmehl) – 2:35
10. "Keep Fighting The Fight" (Smiley, Gersmehl) – 3:08

Personnel

White Heart

• Scott Douglas – lead vocals (1-3, 5-9)
• Mark Gersmehl – keyboards, backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 9), synthesizers (2, 3, 8), lead vocals (2, 4-6, 10)
• Billy Smiley – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
• Gordon Kennedy – lead guitars, guitar solo (1, 5, 8, 9), backing vocals (1), lead vocals (3, 8), sitar (4)
• Gary Lunn – bass
• David Huff – drums, percussion (3, 5)

Additional Musicians

• Steve Green – backing vocals (2, 4)
• David Pierce – backing vocals (6)
• Stan Armor – backing vocals (6, 9)

Production

• Producers – Mark Gersmehl and Billy Smiley
• Executive Producer – Chris Christian
• Tracks 1-8 & 10 recorded by Brent King
• Track 9 recorded by Bob Graves
• Second Engineers – Sam Bailey (Tracks 1-8 & 10), David Pierce (Tracks 1-8 & 10) and Clark Schleicher (Track 9).
• Recorded at The Bennett House (Franklin, TN).
• Mixed by Brent King
• Mixed and Overdubbed at Gold Mine Studio (Nashville, TN).
• Mastered by Hank Williams at MasterMix (Nashville, TN).
• Art Direction and Design – Bill Brunt
• Photography – Mark Tucker, Ron Keith and Scott Bonner.

References

• Hotline. Home Sweet Home Records. 7-01-000171-5
• Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, Hendrickson Publishers. pp. 1033-5. ISBN 1-56563-679-1

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