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Travel
Today’s featured song: Walking This Road by Silverwind, from their self-titled 1981 debut album. Our travel through songs played on CCM radio in 1984 continues with track 11 from Tape JM-31. Demonstrating that this group’s first album had staying power on the radio, here is a song from that release still in rotation three years later.…
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KYMS Déjà vu!
(Our tour of old cassette recordings is interrupted by this special message) Several months ago, I was contacted by a gentleman named Vince Daniels, asking if I had any more KYMS jingles, etc, on my collection of JM tapes. I shared what I had with him, and he said he was working on a special…
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Crucified
Today’s featured song: Love Crucified Arose, by Michael Card, from the 1983 album, Legacy. The first song on Tape JM-31 is another of Michael Card’s wonderful songs about Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. What I have always liked about his music is his poetic style, getting a lot of meaning into a few words, and this song is…
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Thirty Years Ago
Like many efforts in the blogosphere, this collection of Jesus music songs from the early years of Contemporary Christian Music started fast and furious, and with time it faded, as the busy-ness of life and other projects pushed it to a lower priority. The last time I made a post here was over two years…