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Topic: Faded Love Sounds Like Which Gospel Song |
Brian Edwards
From:
Santa Fe, NM USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 7:50 pm |
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I am learning Faded Love on my pedal steel. My wife and I both seem to think that the melody sounds a lot like an old gospel song, but we can't put our fingers on it. Any suggestions?
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Karlis Abolins
From:
(near) Seattle, WA, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 7:52 pm
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I don't know about a gospel song, but I get "She'll be coming round the mountain" when I hear "Faded Love"
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Jim Smith
From:
Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 8:01 pm
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Amazing Grace?  |
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Brian Edwards
From:
Santa Fe, NM USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 8:04 pm
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I don't know...what we have in mind is a more traditional Southern gospel song.
My father was in the sacred music business for many years, and would have known the answer immediately. I wish he could have passed on all of that knowledge to me. |
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Andy Greatrix
From:
Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 9:12 pm
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| Mybe someone borrowed the tune to Faded Love and wrote a gospel song to it. |
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Brian Edwards
From:
Santa Fe, NM USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 9:46 pm
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| That's what I am thinking, I just can't recall which gospel song it would be (if any). |
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Ralph Willsey
From:
Ottawa Valley, Canada
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Posted 13 Nov 2003 10:14 pm
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It is "Touch of the Master's Hand." Sorry, I don't have any other details on it handy. Maybe I can find out more tomorrow.
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Janice Brooks
From:
Pleasant Gap Pa
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Posted 14 Nov 2003 7:13 am
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I thought it was based on a folk ballad Nelly Gray?
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Jason Stillwell
From:
Caddo, OK, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2003 11:57 am
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| Possibly "In the Sweet By and By"? The melody to the "And remember our faded love" tag always kinda reminded me of the "We shall meet on that beautiful shore" part of the hymn. |
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Tom Callahan
From:
Dunlap, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Nov 2003 1:19 pm
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"Touch of the Master's Hand". The version I have is by Walter Brennen concerning an old violin up for aution and it sounds nothing like faded love.
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Graham
From:
Marmora, Ontario, Canada
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Ralph Willsey
From:
Ottawa Valley, Canada
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Posted 14 Nov 2003 2:19 pm
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I hope I didn't lead anyone astray. The version I have of Touch of the Master's Hand, on a recording put out by a local church, definitely uses Faded Love behind the recitation, which was written by Myra Brooks Welch.
However, I just heard Bill Anderson's version and it certainly is NOT Faded Love.
The story is about a dusty old violin at an auction. Possibly this fiddle player just backed up the recitation with Faded Love because it's one he knew. It works very well. Obviously other tunes work too. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2003 7:14 pm
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| How about "There Is a Fountain". 1771- William Cowper words. The melody is an old American campmeeting/folk tune. |
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Ralph Willsey
From:
Ottawa Valley, Canada
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Posted 19 Nov 2003 11:46 pm
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Nice work Bill Hatcher!
I just played "There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood" on the piano from an old hymn book, and the feel is a little different but it sounds a lot like "Faded Love."
I don't know if that means the search is over but you've found at least one.
This book gives the melody name as
CLEANSING FOUNTAIN
American Melody
Arr. by Lowell Mason, 1792-1872.
It would be interesting to know what Lowell Mason started with. Anybody know? |
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SallyAnn Wallace
From:
Alvarado, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2003 7:55 am
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| Except for the bridge part, it is exactly the same chart as "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." There is a bridge part that is a on What a Friend that starts on the 4 that's not in Faded Love. |
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 22 Nov 2003 3:49 pm
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What SallyAnn said,
Saluda Sat. nite they played "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" and I thought it was "Faded Love" at first .
Bill
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 22 Nov 2003 4:22 pm
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| Same chords, but I hear it as a different melody. |
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Dayna Wills
From:
Sacramento, CA (deceased)
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Posted 23 Nov 2003 12:07 pm
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A music professor once told me that a song that reminds you of another song is a good thing(altho it drives most of us nuts til we figure out what the other song is) I didn't realize that Faded Love reminded some many people of so many other songs. As the family tells it, it was an old melody that had been handed down, possibly Nelly Gray, and just morphed into the Faded Love that we all know with Billy Jack's lyrics added later on. My co-writer and I have written a waltz that reminds several people of bits of two other songs, so far: Could I have This Dance and Old Shep. Works for me, they sold. Speaking of going nuts, there's a Ronnie Milsap song that has the same melody of the Beatles' song as you sing the line "In an Octopus's garden in the sea" What song is that? One of the Milsap lines is "Change of atmoshere...
Anybody know? |
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Rick McDuffie
From:
Benson, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2003 5:56 pm
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| Er... all of them?? |
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Carter York
From:
Austin, TX [Windsor Park]
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Posted 24 Nov 2003 11:09 am
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I can't remember who was doing it, but I found myself singing "Careless Love" to an instrumental this past weekend, and was surprised to see it was "Just a Closer Walk with Thee"....maybe that's the one...
Carter |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 24 Nov 2003 2:01 pm
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| That one's pretty close, Carter. |
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Nov 2003 3:32 pm
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[This message was edited by Fred Shannon on 06 December 2004 at 01:18 AM.] |
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Lem Smith
From:
Long Beach, MS
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Posted 25 Nov 2003 10:30 am
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Dayna,
The Ronnie Milsap song you're thinking of is "Back on my mind, again".
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