Posted on 03/31/2015 2:49:01 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Thanks.
I didn’t catch that, I just cut and pasted the lyrics, if I had read them instead of just doing a quick glance, I would have caught it.
I think what happened is that I didn’t notice that it was the lyrics from one of the later versions of the song by someone else, I just assumed that it was the original lyrics that I was looking at.
You’d be hard pressed to find anything Godly in or about the pop music industry.
And just as expected, this hit sings the song of God’s enemy.
True, always bothered me too.
Pretty much like Bob from 60 Minutes. I forgot his last name.
I always liked that song.
I also have musical memories from Wildwood. I lives there in the summer of 1985 while on a summer missionary project with Campus Crusade for Christ.
Walking on Sunshine was the massive summer hit that year. You couldn’t swing a dead cat without hearing it. I actually still kind of like the song.
Yeah, I think we can probably attribute that lyric to his Jewish upbringing. After all, rabbinic Judaism is the spiritual descendent of the Pharisees, and that was their attitude, that they would earn their way into heaven by being sinless.
Just goes to show that throwing “Jesus” into a song won’t make it Christian, if the writer doesn’t understand the principles of Christianity to begin with.
The music is good though, a cool little variation on the traditional guitar boogie, with some nice effects on top.
When I sing along, sometimes I change the lyric in my head to something like you posted.
Except for that line, the rest of the song is pretty good.
Prayers up for Greenbaum.
I’ve always thought his hit “Spirit In The Sky” was originally meant to be mocking but that he thought better of the impulse afterwards and went with”Yeah, I meant to do that”.
Katrina and The Waves?
Yep. One hit wonder
Its pop music.
I think its great that the message got out back in the day. No Christian music of any kind on the radio in that era; but this song was out there and talked about a friend in Jesus.
That’s ok in my book.
So was Norman Greenbaum.(one hit wonder)
Absolutely.
I thought it tried to ride the coattails of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Absolutely true...he heard Dolly Parton and Porter Waggoner sing a gospel tune on Porter’s syndicated TV show and tried to see if he could write one. He did, and as you indicate, it was the only hit he ever had.
Same here, didn’t know he was alive. But what a timeless song.
There was a lot of Jesus Movement music around in the late ‘60s - early ‘70s. It may not have made Top 40 lists(neither did the Grateful Dead), but there was a lot. I remember Larry Norman and Barry McGuire.
I always figured Greenbaum was part of that scene, and until now I thought he was a black guy!
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