Stir It Up (album)

Stir It Up
Studio album by
The Imperials
Released1992
Studio
Genre
Length39:41
LabelStar Song
ProducerPaul Mills
The Imperials chronology
Big God
(1991) 		Stir It Up
(1992) 		Treasures
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Cross Rhythms[1]

Stir It Up is a 1992 studio album by Christian music vocal group The Imperials. It is the group's third album on Star Song Records.[2][3][4][5]

The personnel line-up for this album consists of Armond Morales, David Will, Jonathan Pierce (still under his birth name Jonathan Hildreth) and Pam Morales. In 1993, Pam Morales would retire from the group after the release of Stir It Up and Pierce also left the group and a year later was offered a spot on Bill Gaither's southern gospel quartet the Gaither Vocal Band and a couple of years later started his solo recording career in contemporary Christian music. This would be the final full album of the Imperials' commercial contemporary pop sound of previous albums as the group would undergo another lineup change and a return to their four-part harmony of their early years. The album's first radio single "Taking Your Love for Granted" would give the group their final number one song on the Christian radio charts. The Imperials have had number one songs in three decades from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Stir It Up climbed up to number 20 on the Billboard Top Christian Albums chart.[6]

  1. ^ Cummings, Tony. "Review: "Stir It Up" - The Imperials". Cross Rhythms. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  2. ^ Cusic, Don (2009-11-12). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music: Pop, Rock, and Worship: Pop, Rock, and Worship. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-34426-8.
  3. ^ Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56563-679-8.
  4. ^ The Imperials: Stir It Up. Star Song Records. 1992.
  5. ^ "The Imperials - Stir It Up". AllMusic.
  6. ^ "Top Christian LPs" (PDF). Billboard. February 20, 1993. p. 42.