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[Ebor_fiddler]

I've just rediscovered Moody and Sankey - ideal for the "improver" like me. I know the tunes; they're in reasonable keys AND best of all - the rhythms are ideal for learning to use the basses to vamp. 

P.S. I'm thinking of sneaking them in to the CofE by the back door!   

[Owen Woods]

Moody and Sankey are great fun, hope you can sneak them in!

[HallelujahAl]

Great stuff - and yes they're usually in great keys - very comfortable, and what's more lots of people know them! I use Moody & Sankey quite a bit. I've also got an old SA chorus tunebook published in 1945 that I use with loads of old time gospel happy clappy choruses that most people who went to Sunday school would've learnt, i.e. 'Jesus Bids us Shine', 'Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam', 'A little star peeps o'er the hill', 'Jesus Loves me (this I know)', 'What a Friend we have in Jesus', 'Dare to be a Daniel' etc.,. It's amazing how many old folk remember these choruses, even when they can't remember much else!
AL

[petefoth]

Never having heard of either Moody or Sankey, I Googled and found - among other things -  this link http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Moody+And+Sankey&offset=0 which says

Moody and Sankey is London Cockney rhyming slang for a deception (hanky-panky).

Wikipedia was more informative, if less amusing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody_and_Sankey

Moody and Sankey was the evangelical duo of Ira David Sankey and Dwight Lyman Moody. Starting after their meeting in June 1871, the team wrote Christian songs and traveled throughout the United States and the United Kingdom calling people to God through their use of song, with Moody preaching and Sankey singing. Together they published books of Christian hymns.

Regards
Pete

[TomB-R]

Great stuff - and yes they're usually in great keys - very comfortable, and what's more lots of people know them! I use Moody & Sankey quite a bit. I've also got an old SA chorus tunebook published in 1945 that I use with loads of old time gospel happy clappy choruses that most people who went to Sunday school would've learnt, i.e. 'Jesus Bids us Shine', 'Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam', 'A little star peeps o'er the hill', 'Jesus Loves me (this I know)', 'What a Friend we have in Jesus', 'Dare to be a Daniel' etc.,. It's amazing how many old folk remember these choruses, even when they can't remember much else!
AL

Even "old folk" who are not yet fifty! 

(Remembered from Church of England sunday school etc in the 1960s.)
Tom

[Owen Woods]

And old folk who are barely twenty We sang "Jesus Loves me (this I know)" in primary school.

[HallelujahAl]

Graham Kendricks' Shiny Song is 22 years old now - gosh, I'm feeling old! Wonder how Graham feels, apart from rich that is?
AL
 

[Falseknight]

The Wesleys wrote about four and a half thousand hymns , of which less than 800 are probably in common use now.  I fervently pray Kendrick will be pruned as heavily.

[HallelujahAl]

I fervently pray Kendrick will be pruned as heavily

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Fervent prayer would of course be approved by the Wesley brothers - I do agree with you, actually, in my opinion, most contemporary worship muzak is pretty awful and should be consigned to the same place from whence it came. The thing that saddens me most about it is that its all become a scene, an industry, and seldom real grass roots music from the heart of the church. When you think about it, 800 out of 4,500 is pretty good going.
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I often write songs and choruses for my ministry - just teaching aids or fun centered worship stuff - I use a wide variety of instruments ranging from kazoos to concertinas. I attempt to appeal to both 'old' and young alike - silly songs are often the best I find! The melodeon really makes a difference sometimes! Anyone else do similar?
AL

[Ebor_fiddler]

No, but I'm working on it.

[HallelujahAl]

OK here's the playlist for a session I did at an old people's resource centre this afternoon:

This Little Light of Mine
Do Lord
What a friend
Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam
Kumbya
Peace Like a River
Michael Row the Boat
Glory Glory Hallelujah
Give Me Joy in My Heart
Since Jesus came into my heart
Amazing Grace
O when the saints

They loved it - had a great time singing along and clapping. We also had a quiet time - bible verse and prayer it was really very well received. Oh, I also played some George Formby songs on my banjo uke for them (Leaning on the Lampost; Sergeant Major; and When I'm Cleaning Windows). Brill job, I love it!
AL

[TomB-R]

Fair play to you mate, you're a star!
(I hope I'll be so lucky as they in forty years time!) 
Tom

Edit: Just for clarity