The Song Sheryl Crow Originally Wrote for Her Scrapped 1992 Debut That Ended Up on a Wynonna Judd Album

In late 1992, Sheryl Crow ended up scrapping her self-titled debut, produced by Hugh Padgham (Genesis, The Police, the Human League). The album, which featured 12 track, included Crow’s “Love You Blind,” which eventually made its way to Celine Dion. Initially featured on Crow’s ’92 album, the song made its way to Celine Dion. Though cut from Dion’s 1992 self-titled album, “Love You Blind” was released as a B-side to her hit “If You Asked Me To.”

During this time, Crow had an archive of more songs, many of which would end up on her 1993 debut Tuesday Night Music Club, while others never made the cut, and were recorded by other artists, including “All Kinds of People,” an uplifting song centered around the power of unity—It takes all kinds of people to make the world just right.

Co-written by Crow, Kevin Gilbert, and Eric Pressley, the song never made the Tuesday Night Music Club cut but was later recorded by Tina Turner for her 1996 album Wildest Dreams. Crow would later record “All Kinds of People” for the 2004 benefit album Marlo Thomas and Friends: Thanks & Giving.

Another song from the earlier album, “Father Son,” was initially intended for Tuesday Night Music Club but appeared on Wynonna Judd‘s second solo album Tell Me Why in 1993.

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“Father Sun”

Originally written in 1992 by Crow and Oliver, Judd retitled the song “Father Sun.” Judd delivers a more pop version of Crow’s acoustic jam about redemption.

Strange imaginations, children, hide your secrets well
Is it not temptation makes you kiss and makes you tell
There’s a traveler on the airwaves and he’s pleading for my heart
Light up all the candles, I’m still in the dark

Hurry, operator, get redemption on the line
Pull back the curtains, I think I recognize those eyes
If love is so criminal, then my penance due
‘Cause I’m still holdin’ on to letters written straight to you

Oh, won’t you save me, father sun, father sun
I need to tell you father sun, father sun
And now you know that you’re the only one
Oh, please forgive me father sun, father sun

I said I needed you in the back of my mind
Laid the beads up on the table, right beside the wine
It seems that we say forever, but forever’s just a word
“And we’ll be coming back for you”, is all I heard

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