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MrsWu's avatar

I found an amazing Louise Armstrong version, with Jewel Brown singing back-up. Oh my!

And I appreciate your remark about the beauty of the voice being a separate thing from the quality of the singing, itself. Just as our Lord ‘writes straight with crooked lines,’ so does beautiful song come from broken singers…..God is good!

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Mary Conces's avatar

I should add—not at a club, just playing up a storm on a street corner.

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Debra Esolen's avatar

I began college in the 70's, at Tulane University. To be honest, I couldn't take the heat and humidity, and had to leave. But boy! The music in the French Quarter .. out on the street! .. was amazing. Really famous musicians were still there in those days.

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Mary Conces's avatar

When my late husband saw Louis Armstrong playing at Mardi Gras some time in the late ‘50s when he was in the Air Force.

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Debra Esolen's avatar

Lucky him!

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Fr. Scott Bailey, C.Ss.R.'s avatar

Not quite apocalyptic but how about

Oh when the birds sing out God’s praise…..

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Debra Esolen's avatar

In "Give Me that Old Time Religion," I liked "It was good in the fiery furnace!" and "It was good in the rising waters!"

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Kate's avatar

When I first saw the caption, I tried to think of a blackbird verse I might have heard. :)

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Debra Esolen's avatar

Hahaaaaa! I spent a few days trying to figure out what hymns featured bird song! And "Sing a Song of Sixpence" got stuck in my head. But Fr. Bailey's comment above gives me a good line, which harkens to those four and twenty in the pie: "Oh when those birds begin to sing, O when those birds begin to sing!"

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