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Thread #162561   Message #3869795
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Aug-17 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: Catholic 'Folk Mass' Music
Subject: RE: Catholic Folk Music
I was in a number of "Folk Mass" groups through the 1960s and 1970s. Then id didn't do choir for a while because I was too busy holding kids during Mass.
But then I joined a choir in 1986 and have been in choirs continuously ever since. I joined the 1986 choir after it had somewhat settled down into conventionality. I understand that the choir was once named "Morning Train." I also heard that they used to regularly perform Hoyt Axton's Joy to the World. Not the bullfrog version, though. It's my understanding that Axton wrote these alternate lyrics:

Now, this is not something I have been able to verify....


They also sang a version of "All Through the Night" that had the line:

There's no accountin' fer taste sometimes, ya know.

Oh, yeah, and I did hear attempts to Jesusify "I Will Follow Him" that Little Peggy March recorded.

-Joe-