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With You I Am

This was the title track of Sister Janet Mead’s album of the same name. The sheet music is out of print. This is a sung prayer based on Psalm 73 and is early 70s soft rock. It has an odd … Continue reading

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The Ten Commandments

If you ever thought that what you really needed was a jazz/blues rendition of the Ten Commandments in a Peggy Lee style, then Sister Janet Mead was way ahead of you in the seventies, and included it on her With … Continue reading

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The Lord’s Prayer

I have blogged this before but I will repeat myself for context purposes. “The Lord’s Prayer” is the hit off Sister Janet Mead‘s album, With You I Am, with music by Arnold Strals. This was meant to be a B … Continue reading

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Take My Hand

Sister Janet Mead is in “Seekers” mode again with this Ursula Hicks penned song from her With You I Am album. It is more what you would expect from a nun in the 1970s, but the other songs suggest she … Continue reading

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Father, I Put My Life in Your Hands

This is another Arnold Strals song from Sister Janet Mead’s album, With You I Am. The words are based on Psalm 31. It appears all the texts are either parts of the Mass or Psalms. It is in a blues … Continue reading

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Gloria

It is a pity the sheet music album, With You I Am, that accompanies the record by Sister Janet Mead is out of print. It’s ambitious to say the least. She wrote the music herself for this setting of the … Continue reading

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The Earth is Filled

I’m looking at Sister Janet Mead’s album, With You I Am. She used five songwriters on this record and Arnold Strals wrote five of them including this song and the hit version of “The Lord’s Prayer”. He was active in … Continue reading

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Hold On

This is a trip back to the seventies and Sister Janet Mead‘s album, With You I Am, which contained her hit version of “The Lord’s Prayer”. I picked up the sheet music second hand many years ago and never looked … Continue reading

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Moses (Da Da) by Wildfire – Proclaim Lismore

This is reggae style story song based on the life of Moses from the Wildfire group at Lismore. It is the final song from their latest EP, Kingdom Come. This could be used in primary schools and is a fun … Continue reading

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Slow Down – Proclaim Lismore Wildfire

This is a sung prayer for Adoration from the Wildfire group in Lismore, but is obviously useful in other prayerful settings. Without sheet music I won’t be making backings, but a lot of people play off chord charts, and I … Continue reading

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