I'm so brilliant sometimes I scare myself!

[JosephConroy]

You know I have had a what..."burden" for a project that SOMEONE should be doing, but can't get to myself!

But you know there is a tremendous loss of Pentecostal Music that gets more tragic every day!

There does not seem to be anyone that I have ever heard of that is doing anything bout gathering the old recordings, especially the old vinyl records that are decaying in peoples garages closets and basements in order to preserve them. Some genuine masterpieces are virtually unavailable today that are really timeless!

Some albums I would never tire of, some groups that were terrific are now forgotten!

Some the name rings a bell but their fantastic songs are completely gone from memory!

Does anyone remember the Shockleys? The Terry Harper trio? The albums put out by WABC especially the Tim Ayres "Jesus He Reigns Forever!" album?


The Apostolic Assemblies Sinaloa Bible College albums? Various PAW albums?

The list is probably endless! Some one wrote about the singing Parkers. that was a great album! And who can ever forget if you heard her sing it JUST ONCE molly Parker singing Jesus Put A Yodel in my soul! A crack up at the very same time it was an inspiration!

Willy Johnson singing... Various church albums down through the decades! I remember the church from Houston with Its Gonna rain Children! so much lost to our movement!

SOOOOOO here is my idea its probably against the law but who cares. Most of it is probably public domain anyway and I cant see any true artist screaming about having their work rescued from anonymity (then again I guess there are all kinds.)

But wouldn't it be tremendous if someone could serve as a kind of center where people who have these old albums around just waiting to go to the flea market or the dumpster, instead send them in and this person or team of persons could change them over to CD and archive them for posterity's sake????


I live over here in Germany so am completely unable to do that besides I had the idea DO I HAVE TO DO IT ALL!!!!???/

But really folks... I COULD as I travel around the states on deputation work that announcement in to my presentation that we are trying to salvage this Pentecostal music for the future and that I would be more than happy to take their albums and send them at my own expense to whoever is working on this project!

We could even do it under the table in other words, just DO IT without making a big deal out of it, certainly not for resale, (or maybe at a later date we could get permission from the different artists or their heirs to release them in some kind of a series of collected work) but there you have it, whaddayathink?
Joseph Conroy