Congratulations to Dan Schutte on getting three wonderfully appalling hymns through to the second round; Brian Howard, Estelle White and Marty Haugen are also going well.
All join in the singing, please.
Although officially neutral, I was disappointed that we lost "I watch the sunrise", "Colours of Day", "Enemy of apathy", "Our God reigns" and above all "Follow me" (the two shirts song), since this probably means that Fr Arfur will feel that it's OK to carry on using them at the church of St Daryl the Apostate. Oh well...
| Title | Author | Rd 1 | Rd 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| God's Spirit is in my heart | Alan Dale | 2 | 1 |
| Kumbayah | anon | 10 | 6 |
| Christ be our light | Bernadette Farrell | 13 | 8 |
| Bind us together, Lord | Bob Gillman | 15 | 7 |
| If I were a butterfly | Brian Howard | 5 | 3 |
| I just wanna be a sheep | Brian Howard | 14 | 8 |
| Walk in the Light | Damian Lundy | 3 | 1 |
| I, the Lord of sea and sky | Daniel Schutte | 1 | 1 |
| Let us build the city of God | Daniel Schutte | 7 | 3 |
| Come to the table of plenty | Daniel Schutte | 16 | 7 |
| Sing a new Church | Delores Dufner | 6 | 4 |
| Moses, I know you're the man | Estelle White | 14 | 7 |
| Cheep! said the sparrow on the chimney top | Estelle White | 16 | 8 |
| Shine, Jesus, shine | Graham Kendrick | 10 | 5 |
| This little light of mine | Harry Dixon Loes | 4 | 1 |
| I am the Living Bread | Ifeanyichukwu Eze | 7 | 4 |
| Eat this bread | Jacques Berthier | 11 | 5 |
| One bread, one body | John Foley | 12 | 5 |
| Gift of finest wheat | John Michael Talbot | 1 | 2 |
| Gloria (clap clap) | Martin Anderson | 12 | 6 |
| As the deer pants | Martin Nystrom | 11 | 6 |
| Let us build a house where love can dwell / All are welcome | Marty Haugen | 5 | 4 |
| Gather us in | Marty Haugen | 6 | 3 |
| Who is the alien | Mary Louise Bringle | 9 | 5 |
| The world is full of smelly feet | Michael Forster | 8 | 3 |
| On eagle's wings | Michael Joncas | 4 | 2 |
| Alleluia Ch-Ch | Paul Inwood | 15 | 8 |
| They'll know we are Christians by our love | Peter Scholtes | 8 | 4 |
| Jesus Christ the apple tree | R.H. | 9 | 6 |
| Lord of the Dance | Sidney Carter | 2 | 2 |
| Go, the Mass is ended | Sister Marie Lydia Pereira | 3 | 2 |
| I am the Bread of Life | Suzanne Toolan | 13 | 7 |
Get voting!
I know (and loathe) 19 of the 32 finalists. And having read your list, I am now enduring the mother of all earworms...
ReplyDeleteAmazed that nothing by John Bell & Graham Maule has got through
ReplyDeleteNothing by John Bell & his boyfriend Graham Maule should be on a list of rubbish Catholic hymns. Mr Bell is a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, as you probably know.
DeleteHe was student Rector of the University of Glasgow in the early eighties, when I was a student there. To say he was a hippie would be being polite. His music is unplayable.
They're not specifically Catholic hymns. Several of them are hated by Catholics, Anglicans and Lutherans alike (and anyone can vote). Three Bell/Maule efforts were eliminated in Round 1.
DeleteEcumenism!
DeleteRay Repp’s failure to qualify for the tournament at all demonstrates how quickly the trailblazers get overtaken by their followers.
ReplyDeleteNo one in the tournament would have had a career if Repp hadn’t been blasting away with Mass for Young Americans and Allelu! back in 1964-65, yet he was all but forgotten ten years later.
I would suggest calling the prize the Ray Repp Trophy as a reminder of who went before them all.
Ray Repp was in the 64, with "Here we are, all together, as we sing our song, joyfully" but he seems to have been voted out.
DeleteThere was a Fr. Faber in the 64, too. Its failure to catch the votes should give hope to the Whites, Inwoods and Repps of this world - if only it hangs around for long enough even the most execrable doggerel will come to be treasured.
DeleteSpooky. I got 19, too. Forgot to suggest ‘Drop-kick me , Jesus, through the goal-posts of life’ for the qualifying round. Message to Sarto 2012. I endured Bell & Maule ditties at my Catholic parish before defecting to what is now an Oratory in formation.
ReplyDeleteMany of the above I do not know. Those in your list that I do know make me want to puke! I am a sensitive soul!
ReplyDeleteI'm embarrassed to admit I sung these back in the day. I did not like many of them however, and could never understand why the very old hymns were rarely sung when they were much more authentic sounding and pleasing to the ear. But then again, I didn't get the connection between these choices and our obviously flaming organists. I thought that was just a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteJesus said
ReplyDelete"what you do unto the least of my brethren you do unto me"
Inflicting this torture on souls trying to worship and diminishing hymns to the standard of Bill and Ben the flowerpot men will not go unnoticed when the time comes.