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Old Fashioned Christian Radio Music Store
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Darryl Eisele, Organist -- Tabernacle Hymns
Other CD's by Darryl
Eisele, Organist This recording is listed under:
My Comments
Finding good instrumental organ music to play on my station
is a very hard thing. I was surprised that there is very little of it out there,
be it "in-print", or on LP. (That's why the organ music section did NOT exist in my
online store.) In short, if you really like listening to church organ music,
you'll love this CD, as well as his two other CD's that The message
inside the CD cover
reads... Twenty years from now...or thirty, say...someone will find this old-fashioned plastic disk and this little book and will wonder about these songs. We have wondered about these songs, too, ever since the days when they were and everyday reflection of joys and pain, of enthusiasm and love for the gospel message, when they were an honored part of the Christian church from decades past until almost the end of the twentieth century. There are the songs of Billy Sunday, of Paul Rader, of Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles E. Fuller, of Ira Sankey, and P.P. Bliss. They are the songs of the evangelical church, of the old-time Methodists and the Baptists, songs of the Pentecostals and of Billy Graham (now there's one you know!). They were our grandmothers' songs, our parents' songs and our songs, as we learned so sing with our baby voices, held by mother or dad or falling asleep on the pew (or the floor!) during the Sunday night service. They were the songs that were sung in junior church, in youth meetings and at Wednesday morning prayer meeting. These are the songs that the church turned to in times of want and of war. They often were born out of pain and loss, reflecting the deepest of human emotions, confessing the greatest of human frailties, and exulting in testimonies of sins forgiven, and of lives restored. They are not relics or tokens, to be waved about on occasion to "keep the old folks happy," Rather, they are honest reflections of who we are and what we hold closest to our hearts. Many of us grew up in churches where there was a piano and an organ, where we all sang in harmony, and those who knew it best sang all the extra little notes: "In the sweet (in the sweet) bye and bye (bye and bye) we shall meet on that beautiful shore (beautiful shore)." The music in this album is not for the faint of heart, nor for the timid. This is a brassy sound, a reedy sound that can only come from a theater organ. During the great evangelistic crusades of the 1920's and 30's, thousands of people crowded the largest auditoriums in the country night after night, often week after week to hear great preachers and to sing great songs accompanied, often, by this kind of instrument. As evangelistic churches in later years installed organs, they were often theater organs, out of use since the invention of the "talkies" in the late 1920's. Early recordings of gospel organ music, by Paul Mickelson and Loren Whitney for instance imitated this style. To some, the sound is strange, like the sound from a hockey rink or a funeral home. Theirs is their loss. As we hear these songs, we can hear the great song leaders and choirs far away, and our mothers nearby. We can hear our grandmothers picking out the notes on the upright piano and singing as though nobody could hear. We can hear youth rallies and "singspirations," camp meetings...and the Sunday evening service. It is my sincere hope that in these songs each listener would find some peace or hope or joy to make the daily walk a little brighter, Thank you so much for listening. Darryl
Eisele
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