Point of Light

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"Point of Light"
Single by Randy Travis
from the album High Lonesome
B-side "Waiting on the Light to Change"
Released May 9, 1991[1]
Format 7" single, Cassingle
Recorded The Nightingale, Nashville, 1990
Genre Country
Length 3:34
Label Warner Bros. 19283
Writer(s) Don Schlitz & Thom Schuyler
Producer(s) Kyle Lehning
Randy Travis singles chronology
"Heroes and Friends"
(1991)
"Point of Light'"
(1991)
"Forever Together"
(1991)

"Point of Light" is a song written by Don Schlitz and Thom Schuyler, and recorded by American country music artist Randy Travis. It was released in May 1991 as the lead-off single from his album High Lonesome. It was his twenty-first single overall. It charted at #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks and hit #1 on the Canadian RPM country Tracks chart.

Content

This song has a moral message to do the right thing and become a "point of light". The song goes on to praise social workers and teachers as points of light. Don Schlitz and Thom Schuyler were commissioned to write the song in response to then-United States President George H. W. Bush's "Thousand points of light" program.[2]

Music video

There was a music video for this song.

Musicians

As listed in liner notes.[3]

Background vocals

Chart performance

"Point of Light" spent two weeks at number 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1991) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[6] 3
US Country Songs (Billboard)[7] 31

References

  1. AOL Music profile for "Point of Light"
  2. Brennan, Sandra. "allmusic ((( Don Schlitz > Biography )))". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  3. High Lonesome (CD). Randy Travis. Warner Bros. Records. 1991. 26661.
  4. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1574." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 20, 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  5. "Randy Travis – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Randy Travis.
  6. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1991". RPM. December 21, 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  7. "Best of 1991: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1991. Retrieved August 16, 2013.

External links

Preceded by
"The Thunder Rolls'"
by Garth Brooks
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

July 20 - August 3, 1991
Succeeded by
"Don't Rock the Jukebox"
by Alan Jackson


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