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Main => Ministry, M.O.M, Praise Teams and Choirs => Topic started by: sonicfoxbody on October 06, 2010, 08:45:40 PM
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Name me some off, Kinda the ones that people have forgot about, I'm at a lost, I brought back a good but died down, my memory kills me. Provide a link if possible. I'm talking p&w songs from the 80's-early/mid 90's.
Thanks in advance.
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IMO many African-American churches were not interested in P&W in the early 80's. I believe the devotional period was still in place in most Baptist churches and we were singing mostly hymns and spirituals with a few congregational choruses and some borrowed gospel songs thrown in like "This Joy I Have" "You Can't Make Me Doubt Him" "Jesus On the Mainline", "Victory Is Mine", "Woke Up This Morning" . The devotional period was more vibrant in Pentecostal churches (obviously) and they had their own songs, "I'm A Soldier", "If You Call On Jesus", "Send It On Down", and many other choruses built on the same chord progression, etc.
I think some of the songs that first made it over onto P&W lists included "This Is The Day", "He Has Made Me Glad", "Hallelujah" (that famous 1 word chorus), Andrae Crouch's "Bless the Lord, O, My Soul", "What A Mighty God We Serve", "He Is Lord", "God Is So Good".
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and of course there's "Thank You, Lord", "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me", "Jesus, I'll Never Forget", "When I Think of the Goodness of Jesus"...