Angel in Your Arms

"Angel in Your Arms"
Single by Hot
from the album Hot
Further information B-side "Just 'Cause I'm Guilty" Released February 1977 Format 7" Recorded 1976 Genre Southern soul Length 2:57 Label Big Tree Records Writer(s) Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford, Tom Brasfield Producer(s) Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford
Hot singles chronology
"Angel in Your Arms" (1976) "Right Feeling at the Wrong Time" (1977)

"Angel in Your Arms"
Single by Robin Lee
Further information Released December 1983 ( EV 1016 ) Format 7" Recorded Evergreen Studios Nashville : "Angel in Your Arms", "Turning Back the Covers" recorded 1982 Genre Country pop Length 3:04 Label Evergreen Records Writer(s) Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford, Tom Brasfield Producer(s) Johnny Morrison
Robin Lee singles chronology
"Heart For a Heart" (1983) "Angel in Your Arms" ( EV 1016 ) (1983) "Want Ads" (1984)

"Angel in Your Arms"
Single by Barbara Mandrell
from the album Get to the Heart
Further information B-side "Don't Look in My Eyes" Released July 1985 Format 7" Recorded June 1985 Genre C&W Length 3:19 Label MCA Writer(s) Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford, Tom Brasfield Producer(s) Tom Collins
Barbara Mandrell singles chronology
"There's No Love in Tennessee" (1985) "Angel in Your Arms" (1985) "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" (1985)

Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford

Johnny Morrison

Tom Collins

"Angel in Your Arms" is a song composed by Herbert Clayton Ivey, Terrence Woodford and Tom Brasfield, which was a 1977 Top Ten hit for Hot and also a Top Ten C&W 1985 hit for Barbara Mandrell.

In "Angel in Your Arms", a woman advises an unfaithful mate: "The angel in your arms this morning is gonna be the devil in someone else's arms tonight", meaning that she has assuaged his neglect and infidelities by indulging in illicit trysts of her own.

Although "Angel in Your Arms" belongs to the tradition of cheating songs prevalent in C&W music, the song was introduced by pop/R&B act Hot on their self-titled debut album, recorded 1976 at Wishbone Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with Wishbone's owners Clayton Ivey and Terrence (Terry) Woodford producing. It was Hot's lead singer Gwen Owens who requested the group be given a C&W song, and Ivey and Woodford obliged with "Angel in Your Arms" whose third co-writer was Muscle Shoals resident Tom/Tommy Brasfield. Although Hot was officially a trio consisting of Owens, Cathy Carson and Juanita Curiel, Owens has stated that she recorded "Angel in Your Arms" with only Carson as background vocalist as Irene Cathaway, with whom Owens and Carson had been performing and who was expected to record with them at Muscle Shoals, was a no-show at the recording studio, and "Angel in Your Arms" was recorded prior to the recruitment of Curiel as Cathaway's replacement.

Ivey played keyboards on Hot's recording of "Angel in Your Arms", which featured Mac McAnally on guitar. Picked up by Big Tree Records, "Angel in Your Arms" accrued sufficient airplay to by February 1977 to enter the Billboard Hot 100, entering the Pop Top 40 that April to peak that July at #6; the track also charted R&B (#29) and Easy Listening (#9). Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1977. Certified a gold record for U.S. sales of one million units, "Angel in Your Arms" was also a hit for Hot in Australia (#27), Canada (#3) and New Zealand (#7).

...
Wikipedia