Home Sweet Home Records

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Home Sweet Home Records

Parent company
Founded	1981
Founder(s)	Chris Christian
Distributing label	Benson Records 1981-1983 Word Records 1983-1990 Diadem Records 1994-1995
Genre(s)	Various
Country	US
Web address	http://www.homesweethomerecords.com/

Home Sweet Home Records is a record label, based in Dallas, Texas.

Home Sweet Home was founded in 1981, in Nashville, Tennessee, by Grammy Award Winning Producer & Singer/Songwriter Chris Christian. Since its introduction into the music industry, the label has released over eighty projects, including many number one records - including over 30 “Top ten” singles nationally.

In the 1980s, Home Sweet Home held a prominent position in the Contemporary Christian music market; releasing albums by such artists as Steve Archer, Dan Peek, B.J. Thomas, White Heart and others. In 1983 Home Sweet Home released what is believed to be the first ever Contemporary Christian Music Video with Steve Archer's "Through His Eyes of Love."

Perhaps its most well known artist would turn out to be Mark Heard, who released five albums with the label in the early 1980s. After Heard's untimely demise in 1992, there was an attempt by his own label, Fingerprint Records, to acquire the mastertapes of the albums he released on Home Sweet Home Records. For reasons undisclosed, this acquisition never occurred and it took almost a decade for these albums to see the light of day.