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Hope For Us All

This is another Angel Tucciarone penned song in A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal from 1978. There is a lot to like about this simply expressed song but it has vanished without a trace. I especially like songs that aren’t … Continue reading

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I Have Seen My America

In the collection, A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, I am back to the obscure with Neil Blunt’s song, “I Have Seen My America.” I can’t see any situation where a song like this, whatever its merits, would be singable … Continue reading

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Lord, Let Me Walk

This song was originally published by WLP in 1975 and has somehow survived time and takeovers to still be available at GIA. I found it in A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal. It is a song for Good Friday by … Continue reading

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Believe and Repent

I’m going through an obscure old collection called One Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, and have found one that has at least left a trace on the internet. It is Ken Meltz’s “Believe and Repent”, which was originally sung by … Continue reading

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What a Joy

I’m going through an essentially buried collection called A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal from 1978. Many of the songwriters are most obscure but Willard F. Jabusch was not and certainly wrote some well known songs, including “The King of … Continue reading

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Love Is Here

Angel Tucciarone is another interesting songwriter from the 1970s in the USA whose sheet music is out of print. She had this song in the collection: A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal. I would love anyone who knows anything about … Continue reading

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A Hundredfold

The title track of the collection A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal, from 1978, is as obscure as the rest of the collection. I can find no sign of Ken Meltz‘s song anywhere and it is extremely out of print. … Continue reading

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When We Walk in Tenderness

This is probably a bad idea, but I found a little book called A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal second hand many years ago and it intrigues me, so I’m going to have a look at it. It was published … Continue reading

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To the Glory of God

This is the last song from Holy Ground, Monica Brown’s collection of mantras. Thinking about them all, I can see a liturgical use for many of them, apart from their obvious use in personal prayer and retreats. The sheet music … Continue reading

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Hearts of Joy

This is a bit more than a mantra – it has three harmony lines so let’s call it a piece for a children’s choir. It’s very psalm like. It is by Monica Brown from her excellent value collection Holy Ground. … Continue reading

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