A Wonderful Resource
Joel
recorded a beautiful duet of a hymn, called "Waiting For The Lord To
Come". Art Rosenbaum put this on his great record "Fine Times At Our
House". For a long time I have been trying to find this hymn (I was
curious about the words and about the history.). I wrote to many
churches in that part of Indiana that was Mr. Summers's home, but
nobody could help. I tried Google.com, but I got a seemingly endless
list of references that led no-where.
A few months ago, my friend Richard Blaustein told me about the
usefulness of searching in 'books.google.com' especially in the public-
domain area. A few days ago I searched there for "waiting for the lord
to come, hymn", and right on the first page of references was one to
"Will Jesus Find Us Watching", which was the name that was
misremembered by Mr. Summers. I was able to get a .pdf file of the
Sankey hymn book that contained the song from the site. I was able to
get a graphic of the hymn involved (I sent a copy to Art and to a few
others I thought would be interested.).
How books.google.com got from the Summers title to the source I can't
guess, but I offer this story as an indication of the power of the
engine and the uses those of us interested in such things can put it
to. If one will search under the name of a fiddle tune, for example,
one can learn wonderful and curious things about the tune's past.
Best wishes,
Joel
Merle Barnes
public commodity trading on the stock market.
Before that Dogpile was my best friend. I feel bad about abandoning my
friend Dogpile but Google's attraction was so great!! :-)
What I like most about Google is the "Cache" which is a snapshot of the page
as it appeared on some date in the past. In some cases, that website might
no longer exist or might be changed.
Take Care
Merle
"Joel" <fiddl...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Kerry
Thanks so much for finding this. As you know, that recording of Mr.
Summers and Judge White playing "Waiting for the Lord To Come" was a
huge inspiration to me, leading me chose a number of "shape-note
hymns" to adapt for playing on multiple fiddles. Mr. Lynn Frederick
did the first adaptation that I tried to play (when we were in the
"Rhythm Gorillas" stringband long ago), but I started doing the
adaptations myself and am still at it. It is slow going because me
notation reading skills are not particularly good, but the end result
seems to work.
Oh yeah, "Dogpile," one of my favorite search engine amalgamations
too...
Thanks again,
Your friend, Kerry
carlb
I applaud your perserverance at finding the music and words for that
hymn. I did have a similar search experience last year. I heard a
recording of "My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me" and decided that I
wanted to get the hymn book version for a Scared Harp group I sing
with. Well, it's wasn't difficult using Google to find the author and
actually the name of the hymn book it was in. However, to find the
hymn book was another task. A few years ago, I stumbled across a
library location web site and some how if I searched for the name of
the book to "Gospel hosannas" (by Jame D. Vaughan) ) I'm looking for,
it still works (using the upper search area).
http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/1196228&tab=holdings?loc=19454
I searched for the name of the book and then clicked on the one with
the correct author and voila. Anyway, it was in a special collection
in a university library; contacted the head of the special section;
asked if they could please scan it for me and email it as an
attachment. It all worked and I got it. The internet is a wonderful
resource.
My best,
Carl
Joel
said. I found a copy of one of Vaughn's books in a junk store and
'bout flipped. I contains, among other golden nuggets, "Daniel Prayed"
and "I'd Rather Have Jesus", which was gloriously recorded by the
Bailey Brothers. It was very interesting to me to find that Doc
Watson, Fred Price, and Clint Howard (there must have been a fourth
voice) could have been reading from the book, so exact and close was
their version.
Your Friend Joel
On Feb 8, 10:14 am, carlb <c.b.ba...@att.net> wrote:
> Joel,
>
> I applaud your perserverance at finding the music and words for that
> hymn. I did have a similar search experience last year. I heard a
> recording of "My Loved Ones Are Waiting For Me" and decided that I
> wanted to get the hymn book version for a Scared Harp group I sing
> with. Well, it's wasn't difficult using Google to find the author and
> actually the name of the hymn book it was in. However, to find the
> hymn book was another task. A few years ago, I stumbled across a
> library location web site and some how if I searched for the name of
> the book to "Gospel hosannas" (by Jame D. Vaughan) ) I'm looking for,
> it still works (using the upper search area).http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/1196228&tab=holdings?loc=19454
Billl Martin
"Kerry" <vaga...@gmail.com> wrote
>
> Thanks so much for finding this. As you know, that recording of Mr.
Summers and Judge White playing "Waiting for the Lord To Come" was a
huge inspiration to me, leading me chose a number of "shape-note
hymns" to adapt for playing on multiple fiddles.
Kerry, do you have any recordings of your adaptions?
Bill