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Traditional Catholic Faith => Art and Literature for Catholics => Topic started by: Miseremini on July 29, 2018, 02:36:50 PM
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Here are some of my favourite. Please add yours.
Little Altar Boy -Karen Carpenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3x9RVdp2A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3x9RVdp2A)
Miracle of the Rosary- Elvis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFcrd5AOrMU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFcrd5AOrMU)
Goodnight Sweet Jesus - Perry Como (Sung as the Tabernacle closes after Benediction in the "40's & 50's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvibZ4a_KKc
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I agree. The pop stars of old had to have good voices. Not anymore.
Here's an old song by Mahalia Jackson and Nat King Cole, called Steal Away. It's Gospel, but their voices are beautiful.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=nat+king+cole%2c+religious+songs&view=detail&mid=0EE69EE09A4E1E7FB14F0EE69EE09A4E1E7FB14F&FORM=VIRE
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I don't really follow popular music because most of it is inspired by the guy downstairs, but I do like Karen Carpenter. She had a beautiful voice. And to think her first performances were not vocal, but as a drummer, accompanying her brother's band. Drums were her first love. It's a shame she had such a hard life that ended as it did from anorexia.
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John McCormack:
https://youtu.be/AgcQQw9Nz1I
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Like a prayer set to music like a psalm
Trust in You (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n_aVFVveJNs)
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Like a prayer set to music like a psalm
Did you listen to what the OP posted??
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Here are some of my favourite. Please add yours.
Little Altar Boy -Karen Carpenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3x9RVdp2A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3x9RVdp2A)
You may not like my comment. To me it looks like a more devious version of "Son of a preacherman" or "I say a little prayer". These pieces are obviously designed to lead astray pious people. To mix the idea of true love of the gospel (love = keeping commands) with new age love (-unspeakable-).
Yes, text and music do not obviously impose evil. But in fact you have an attack on young men which might become priests, and an attack on young women, being led to seduce exactly these men.
Think a while about "Son of of preacherman", "I say a little prayer", or "Little Altar Boy", look at the texts, hear the lascive voices, study videos showing interpretations of the song. Ask yourself what the heck the intention of the whole product may be. Are these artists telling what's in their hearts, or are these products designed to instruct folks to wish and to do what is full of sin? Doesn't sound this music like a part of a perfect plan to destroy the Church?
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P.S.: I don't believe that the earth is flat. But my more more than less educated guess is that not only Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick are "Trannies" but "lead sister" Karen Carpenter also.
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Village of St. Bernadette - Andy Williams (two versions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYRL5sJLFfY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYRL5sJLFfY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2OlfJJ-7c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2OlfJJ-7c)
Little Altar Boy - Andy Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ourk2KdGFDE&list=RDOurk2KdGFDE&start_radio=1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ourk2KdGFDE&list=RDOurk2KdGFDE&start_radio=1)
Ave Maria - Barbra Streisand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKIBM6ywOg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKIBM6ywOg)
The Rosary - Mario Lanza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFFdyygSAE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFFdyygSAE)
Faith of Our Fathers - Bing Crosby (words by Fr. Faber 1849)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rD5MEh_4pY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rD5MEh_4pY)
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An iconic feel good Jesus song! As a young dumb Marine driving my first car (a muscle Chevy Impala convertible no less) up and down I-5 which cuts right through the massive Camp Pendleton, I still clearly remember feeling the sunshine and Pacific Coast breeze, drug free, but feeling sky high as I listened to this song blaring away. (Unusual side note: the song was sung by a "nice" Jєωιѕн lad: Norman Greenbaum!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI
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Glen Campbell - Little Altar Boy (with visuals)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDhcHsYzbQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDhcHsYzbQ)
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An iconic feel good Jesus song! As a young dumb Marine driving my first car (a muscle Chevy Impala convertible no less) up and down I-5 which cuts right through the massive Camp Pendleton, I still clearly remember feeling the sunshine and Pacific Coast breeze, drug free, but feeling sky high as I listened to this song blaring away. (Unusual side note: the song was sung by a "nice" Jєωιѕн lad: Norman Greenbaum!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI
Greenbaum gives some background concerning the text: americansongwriter.com (https://americansongwriter.com/2013/10/behind-song-norman-greenbaum-spirit-sky/)
The "spirit in the sky" is inspired by a "Hopi Indian greeting card that had a totem and a spirit in the sky on it".
Greenbaum mentions some "certain ultra religious, right wing believers" who complained about the lines “I’ve never been a sinner/I’ve never sinned”. Unfortunately he gives no reason why he, who is not religious, would come up with a text like he did.
My guess is: make young Christians sing "I’ve never been a sinner".