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Thread #105855   Message #2509037
Posted By: Azizi
05-Dec-08 - 06:02 PM
Thread Name: Religious Songs That Speak To You
Subject: RE: Religious Songs That Speak To You
I just found two gospel songs on YouTube that I want to share with folks here:

Edwin Hawkins Choir-I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPPpW6IFn0&feature=related

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSu6UtVImrQ&feature=related

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I first heard the Edwin Hawkins song in the early 1970s. "I Heard The Voice of Jesus Say" sounds different from a lot of gospel songs because there it features a trio instead of a soloist, and has a Latin rhythm to it, or at least that's what it sounds like to me.
Here's information that song from the YouTube summary:

"Edwin Hawkins Singers, Northern California State Youth Choir - Director Edwin R. Hawkins - "Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord LP
Century 31016, 1968; BPS 10001, 1969

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I don't recall hearing the gospel song "A Building Not Made By Hand" before. But its tune is "old school" gospel [I mean like the 1950s or 1960s]. And the song is sung in a "old downhome gospel" way that I wish I could describe better. The song uses both call & response [choir/soloist and soloist/choir patterns and also sometimes uses a kind of "lining" approach with the soloist singing a line and the choir taking it from there...In this case, the choir is the church congregation. Everyone appears to know the song. But even if a person didn't know the words to this song when other people started singing it, the repeating pattern of the lyrics make the song easy to learn.

I'm really glad I stumbled across this song while surfing YouTube's gospel song collection. Albertina Walker singing "A Building Not Made By Hand", is now definitely one of my favorite religious songs. Of course, I have a lot of favorite religious songs.

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Btw, hyperlinks of these and a number of other Gospel and Spiritual YouTube videos are found on this page of my website:

http://www.cocojams.com/gospel.htm