Pamela Crawford slaughtered this song back in ‘86, and I’m listening this song again in ‘24 after hearing dozens of covers, and in my opinion, NONE! comes close to her original simply because she owned the song in the way that she delivered it. It was raw, it was passion filled, and above all else it was her personal testimony. She wasn’t trying to be pretty or vocally excellent, she just had to get the message out which she did and some. The so called ‘gospel singers’ of today need to return to the old landmark when it comes the singing and the delivery of the message. Cut the performance and return to singing from the heart to bring about hope and conviction in equal measure.
