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I first posted this a few months back, but it’s worth a second hearing. Here’s a rich performance of a great song by Tom Jones — and the video below includes the arid landscape of the desert, as well as a clutch of rosary beads. It’s a perfect anthem for Lent.
This Ash Wednesday perennial gets to me every time. Here, two versions…the first, from John Michael Talbot, and the second, from the composer himself, Gregory Norbet.
A former colleague of mine from CBS, Richard Barber, is working on a documentary about the high school Mardi Gras bands of New Orleans — and yesterday he sent me this new preview of the film, “The Whole Gritty City.” It looks amazing. Check out the clip below. And visit the website for more information [...]
That’s my nominee for Best Song Lyric Ever, from the final moments of “Les Miserables.” For those who missed it: below is the thrilling finale to the 25th anniversary concert, which aired Sunday night on PBS. In a word: wow.
A classic performance of a classic old hymn. (You can read the story behind it here.) Ladies and gentlemen: Miss Ethel Waters.
That’s the request from his mother, who is promoting his new movie and talking about her famous son’s Catholic upbringing and faith. From Catholic Online: Stardom came to Bieber when he posted a song for his grandmother on the video Web site YouTube. Mallette says she had no idea that the video of Justin singing [...]
When my wife and I were first married, all those years ago, if we were driving around and this song came on the radio, we’d crank up the volume and sing along at the top of our lungs. We’re still singing. Thank you, God, for that beautiful gift. Happy Valentine’s Day.
People forget that Leonard Cohen wrote something else besides the now-ubiquitous “Hallelujah”. He composed this haunting ode to love and human frailty, “Song of Bernadette.” Here’s the great Jennifer Warnes – whatever happened to her, by the way? — performing this, evidently on “The Smothers Brothers” show in the early 1970s. UPDATE: A friend on [...]
A jolly h/t to Frank Weathers who sent this my way. Boy, does this bring back memories. Not long ago, my wife sent me on an iTunes search to try and find this popular rendition of the classic prayer that briefly hit the airwaves in the early ’70s. These days, it’s nowhere to be found. [...]
One of the most popular publishers of Catholic liturgical music is Oregon Catholic Press, or OCP. You find their hymnals in a lot of parishes around the U.S., and their settings for the mass are probably among the most familiar anywhere. (“Celtic Alleluia,” anyone?) Their website is now offering samples of some of the new [...]
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