New Horizons (Connie Smith album)
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| Studio album by Connie Smith | ||||
| Released | March 1978 | |||
| Genre | Country pop | |||
| Label | Monument | |||
| Producer | Ray Baker | |||
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New Horizons is the thirty first studio album by American country music artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in March 1978 on Monument Records and was produced by Ray Baker. It was Smith's final studio album released under Monument and contained four singles released between 1977 and 1978, including "I Just Want to Be Your Everything."
New Horizons consisted of ten tracks new material recorded by Connie Smith. The album included three cover versions: "The Wayward Wind" originally by Gogi Grant, "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb and "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone. Like her previous album for Monument, Pure Connie Smith, New Horizons was recorded with material that had a softer Country pop sound. Under Monument Records, Smith's musical style changed from Pure Country (which she had recorded under RCA Victor and Columbia) to Adult Contemporary and Disco. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic reviewed Smith's 1993 compilation, Greatest Hits on Monument (which included seven tracks from New Horizons) and did not receive her musical sound well, stating, "Smith still sings well throughout it, but it's not a very good showcase for her talents, nor is it very good as crossover pop -- it's too square and middle of the road, making the urban cowboy bubbling up at the time seem risky and edgy." Erlewine did find Smith's cover of "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "relatively faithful" to the original version. It was issued on a LP album, with five songs on each side of the record.
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