Yet another list
This song list thing is getting kinda fun!
In my last installment, I borrowed an idea from Daniel Mount and offered a list of songs from the past that hadn't been heard in some time, in hopes that someone might take the hint and re-record them anew, I thank Daniel and my good friend Cliff Cerce for alerting me of versions of some of those songs that have been done recently.
I'm still waiting for someone to do "Do The Do's" though, just to prove the song existed...since the Rebels' very rare version of it in 1958, I don't think anyone else recorded it. Too bad, because it's a fun song.
This time, though, I'd like to submit some other older songs that ought to be heard again. The ones in my first list, though all gospel classics, were all on the "light" side...and although there is a place for those kinds of songs, the songs that touch me the most are the songs with the most profound messages, or expressions of the gospel or the Christian life itself.
Having said that, let's consider some more songs...with an artist I think would do a good job with each song.
1. WHERE NO ONE STANDS ALONE-Mosie Lister's mid-1950s classic song was recorded by Elvis Presley on his sole Grammy award winning album, his 1957 gospel classic "How Great Thou Art"...and it was done by the Statesmen and most of the other leading quartets of that era, but I've not heard it done in some time. It is a song with a great, comforting message...and somebody ought to sing it. Perhaps I'm unaware again of someone's recent version. SUGGESTED ARTIST: Ernie Haase and Signature Sound.
2. I CAN FEEL THE TOUCH OF HIS HAND-This JD Sumner song, written circa 1970, is considered by many to be the best and most enduring of his some 700+ compositions. Most of gospel music's top artists recorded it in the 1970s, and it's possible the Stamps still sing it now, after all these years. Somebody ought to revive it...Gold City, maybe?
3. SONGS THAT ANSWER QUESTIONS-People like to bring back Bill Gaither songs...and that's understandable, since Gaither may have arguably been the finest composer of Christian music in the 20th century. This 1970s song is one of my all-time favorite Gaither songs, with lyrics that cut through all the inter-Christian squabbling over picky doctrinal issues and emphasizing what is really important in our proclamation of the gospel. SUGGESTED ARTIST: The (new)Prophets Quartet.
4. THE JOY OF KNOWING JESUS-My favorite Neil Enloe song, it was recorded by almost every gospel quartet of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as it should have been. Let's hear this song again...and since the Inspirations did in in 1970, and they've been re-recording a lot of their early hits of late, I'd like them to give this song another go. I won't mind...and neither will Neil.
5. UNTIL YOU'VE KNOWN-This late 1960s Rusty Goodman composition is on a lyrical par with his more popular classic "Who Am I"(IMHO)and to my recollection, hasn't been recorded in a while. Let's hear the Perrys do it(if they didn't on their recent Goodman recollection album, which I don't have handy to check at the moment).
Again, feel free to correct, suggest, praise, or bury(so to speak!).
Posted on Sep 09, 2007 - 11:30 PM | [1]
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#5 - The Dixie Echoes did "Until You've Known" on their second-to-most-recent project, "A New Chapter." It was a great rendition, and my introduction to the song. That said, I can't help but agree that a Perrys version would be splendid.
#3 - The Gaither Vocal Band did it in '97, on Loving God and Loving Each Other. The Gaither Homecoming Tour did it in '98, on Hawaiian Homecoming, but despite the immense popularity of the series I'm not sure that counts.
#2 - I'm not sure if this is the same song, though I imagine it is, but the Anchormen did a song by the same name in '04 on "Times and Seasons."
#1 - This is Randy Byrd's feature song in Blackwood Brothers programs; he does a great job with it. Legacy Five also is doing a version (featuring Glenn Dustin) on their upcoming Know So Salvation project.