THE MUSIC THAT MADE THE REVOLUTION!               DO 166            5/72

         1. I'm sick & tired of waiting for somebody to put out a recording or album for the general public, as well as our own use, of all our top hit songs, the popular ones that really made the Revolution, the inspired ones that God first gave our leading, most Revolutionary musicians & inspirationalists, such as Aaron, Abraham, Shad, Esther, Jeremiah, Jacob, Tabitha, Singin' Sam, Paul Michael, Apollos, Faith, David Z., Martha & Naaman & some of the more recent composers of our later most popular songs, such as "Gypsy Caravan", "David's Mighty Men" etc.!
         2. I'd like to see our all-time favourite top hits & most popular songs that the kids really remember & love to sing made up in an album or two or three as sung by their own original composers or the musicians that made them popular & whom we all love to hear--THE TRULY GOD-INSPIRED MUSIC THAT MADE THE REVOLUTION WHAT IT IS, all the way from Aaron's first "Luke 7:34" right down to Sam's "You Gotta Be a Baby" & "Billy Boy"; from Abraham's "Cry of Revolution" & Jeremiah's "Message of Jeremiah" down to Tab's "Mountain Children" & Apollos' "I Love You"!--And many others!--THE ALL-TIME FAVOURITES THAT REALLY CARRY THE MESSAGE of the Revolution, not just pretty little ditties or long drawn-out monotonies or just plain noise, but SONGS WITH A MESSAGE & A MEMORABLE MELODY!
         3. What we need are the songs that are already proven hits, already popular, already tried and tested & proven, singable over & over again & that REALLY HIT HOME, really express your feelings, give everybody a chance to put it in words & emote! Why dig around for a bunch of new, untried stuff which just sounds like a lot of noise to me, in which you can't even hear the words or get the Message, no matter how up-to-date the music may be or however perfect the musicians in the band!
         4. Let some worldly record company record that other kind of stuff if they want to & I hope it makes a hit & sells, but if they want to call it some crazy name we never heard of before & not even mention the Children of God, maybe it's just as well, because I'd hate to be connected with a failure, if it flubs! IT TAKES MORE THAN A GOOD BAND & A BIG NAME TO MAKE OUR KIND OF MUSIC, THE KIND THAT MADE THE REVOLUTION! IT TAKES THE SPIRIT OF GOD & REAL INSPIRATION & a singer that can sing it with heart-felt emotion & really mean it & move you!
         5. It's not going to make a hit with me unless they're songs THAT HAVE REALLY MADE HISTORY & are still making it! I'd rather hear ONE OF OUR SIMPLE LITTLE SOULS WITH HIS LITTLE LONE GUITAR SING ONE OF OUR OWN ALREADY FAMOUS SONGS all by his little self, SONGS THAT PACK POWER & CREATED THE REVOLUTION, than all the fancy & meaningless noise of a big fancy band with nothing but meaningless music, no heart-breaking melodies, no tear-jerking ballads, no heartcry of youth, no cry for Revolution & not even enough simple rhythm to be happy or dance to!
         6. Get our songs together, our real revolutionary hits that everybody loves to sing, for a songbook & an album that everybody would love to have!--QUIT WAITING ON THE EXPERTS FOR THEIR PERFECTION & GO BACK TO THE LITTLE GUYS WHO, BY THE HELP OF GOD ALMIGHTY, CREATED OUR ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC, & make them go to WORK & RECORD THEIR OWN SONGS WE ALL LOVE SO WELL & that made the Revolution what it is, EACH ON HIS OWN TAPED CASSETTE & REPRODUCE THESE CASSETTES WITH THE EQUIPMENT WE HAVE NOW FOR OUR OWN USE & the rest of the World before it's too late! "How long you been waiting?"
         (ED: THIS VISION HAS NOW BEEN FULFILLED--PTL!--WITH OUR CASSETTES: "He's Coming Soon"; "Climb That Mountain"; "Going Forth to Conquer"; "Heaven's Magic"; "Say I Love You!"; "Calling You"; "This Must Be Heaven"; "On Love We'll Sail"; "New Worlds to Conquer"; "Touch of Love"; "Across the Sky"; "Christmas Love"; "Come Fly with Me"; "Love Forever"; "Love's Answer"; "Sweet Dreams Tonight"; "Time To Be Happy"; "Magic of Love"; "Little Things"; & VIDEOS: "Songs that Made the Revolution" Parts 1-5.)

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