VerMir ACA-6647/8 (1976)
Who Shall Spread the Good News? was brought to reality by Roger Smith and Michael Howell, through their group the New Commitment. Roger Smith, a Catholic priest from Corpus Christi, TX, also performed on albums for North American Liturgy Resources. This music was connected with the “Search” retreats which are still ongoing for Texas Catholic college students.
In our opinion, Who Shall Spread the Good News? is an outstanding–maybe the outstanding–example of the music that came out of the “Catholic Liturgical” movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Especially notable are their rendition of De Profundiis (“If You, Oh Lord”) and “As the Rain.”
The songs:
- Who Shall Spread the Good News?
- Song of Revelation
- If You, Oh Lord (Psalm 130)
- Lift your Voice
- The Lord is My True Shepherd (Psalm 23)
- Did You Ever Wonder Why?
- Praised be the God and Father (Ephesians 1)
- Jesus
- Holy, Holy, Holy
- Anaphora/Acclamation
- Doxology/The Lord’s Prayer
- Lamb of God
- As the Rain
For more music click here
The Performers:
- Conrad Hayden — Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Vocals
- Mary Ann Edel — Piano
- Matt Walsh — Bass Guitar
- Russel Buenteo — Vocals
- Janie Gillespie — Vocals, Guitar
- Kay Vorhies — Tambourine, Vocals
- Michele Brinkman — Vocals
- Gary Henneke — Flute
- Serge Timecheff — French Horn
- Therese Edel — Organ
Some history behind this digitisation:
I have been a fan of this album for a long time. It was one of the first albums I digitised, back in the late 1990’s. Unfortunately what I worked from was second-hand; one copy was “low-fi” and the other had a terrible pinch warp, which was noisy and make it skip.
When I posted it the first time I had to make my own album artwork. Now that I’m starting from a regular copy, I have the true album artwork and you can see from and back covers here.
In spite of the limitations of what they furnished me, my thanks again to John and Tracy for this music.
Positive Infinity 
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