Jesus Music Timesweep 1969-79
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- (if you don't care for the intro, the timesweep proper begins at about 7:00)
Click here to download a list of all the songs featured on this timesweep:
docs.google.com/document/d/1G...
Also, check out this channel: / @robbase1969 for more great Jesus Music!
WLS had its New Year's Eve "Montage", but Drake-Chenault's History of Rock & Roll called it a Timesweep. And now Jesus music gets the same treatment, with this survey of audio clips of the songs, singers, and groups that contributed to the music of the Jesus movement.
It starts with a brief introduction, takes a timesweep back from 2015 to 1969, and then gives each year 2-5 minutes of clips from the music released that year, with album art for nearly every clip.
When the timesweep gets to 1977 through 1979, the survey through the year ends with the to 30 songs, based on popularity and airplay, as 1977 is the earliest that such information was compiled. And, since Christian radio playing this type of music was still in its infancy, there were some songs that had tremendous staying power; for example, Don Francisco's "He's Alive" charted as #1 in 1978, though it was released in 1977, and it continued to be near the top of the list in 1979.
As far as top songs lists for those years are concerned, there are two online resources that I utilized in making the song selections. "Streets of Gold" is a Jesus music radio show that has several lists of top songs, including ones for 1978 and 1979. See their web site here:
Streets of Gold - www.streetsofgoldradio.com
The second resource used was from Top Christian Hits, a site that has compiled yearly lists of this music from 1977 to the present, based on CCM Magazine lists, and currently from Billboard Magazine lists. You can find them at:
Top Christian Hits - topchristianhits.org
Other credits for this video:
Video clip from Beachfront B-Roll www.beachfrontbroll.com
Song dates, album art, and other information researched at:
Discogs.com - discogs.com
The Ancient Star Song - www.theancientstarsong.com
Full Circle Jesus Music - www.fullcirclejesusmusic.com
1960s Christian Music - www.1960schristianmusic.com
Other artwork from the Internet at large, and some music clips taken from music uploaded to CZcams.
Check out my blog with lyrics and sounds from classic Christian music at Great Great Joy - greatgreatjoy.com - Hudba
My boyfriend and I excepted Jesus together in 1972 three months before we got married. Almost 51 years later, we’re still serving the Lord in a great capacity. We are so excited that revival is back in our country once again with the young people praise his holy name.!!
Hallelujah!
I accepted Yeshua in 1980.
Praise God
What a testimony!! God bless you both!! How exciting!!
😍me. Autumn. 1971. Austin Texas.
Saved in 1975!!
I was 17 years old and in high school when I gave my heart to Jesus. I asked God to don't let me forget Him and he never has. After 50 years this walk with God is new and fresh every morning
Right on! HalleluYAH!
Me, too!
Here too! Praise God, He reigns!
God bless you!
@@smedleybutler5276 Your middle name isn't Darlington is it? WAR IS A RACKET :)
We would go to Jesus festivals in the 70s! Camp there for 4 days and praise God, worship God and sing songs to Him! What a time we had then! I am 62 years old now and have been a Christian since 16! God has kept His hand on me all my life and I praise Him for loving me!
me too! Praise God’s faithfulness
I remember those Jesus festivals where believers just spread out on blankets and some had tents. The music was from the heart!
I also became a Christian at age 16 ,now am 65. Festivals.... Yes, slept over in our tents. Peaceful and orderly ,no fear of being robbed or shot.
Praise ,Preaching dancing ,worshipping and fellowshipping w others !
I went to Jesus festivals in Pennsylvania in the 70s . Jim Baker was there ,Barry Mcquire ,. Honeytree, Keith Green , Mike Evens,and Andre Crouch were a few that I remember .
@@lindacooper3757
Those very musicians and singers are the ones I listened to. I'm not even sure if they were on the radio at the time, but I bought the albums.. Those were the days.. Our future will be wonderful beyond our current understanding! God bless you, Linda! I'll see you on the other side.. 📖🌾🕊
@@cookiemama4
Amen !
Tom and Candy Green were other Christian folk singers from Vt. They came to our coffee house in CT.
Unfortunately ,my albums didn't make it through the years with my moves.
I may have seen Maranatha at a festival ,as well. It's where I got introduced to the Christian artists and bought their albums.
Do you still have yours ?
I was saved in the Jesus Movement in 1970. When me and my ex lived in LA, we used to go to all the Christian Coffeehouses and all these bands would be there in a closer, more intimate setting than the festivals. We went to Daisy II, the Christian nightclub every weekend. Karen Lafferty, Michael and Terry Talbot, and so many others would be there. Keith Green taught a Bible Study there during the week. I had what I believe was rheumatoid arthritis in my middle finger of my right hand (it was excruciatingly painful, and my knuckle had been becoming more and more distorted). Terry Talbot was there one Saturday night and he called out a healing of arthritis in a finger, and thepain immediately stopped, and over thenext few weeks, my finger began to straighten out. I was 23 then, and I'm 73 now, (holy cow! That was 50 years ago! 😮) and never had a problem with it again. Never did get to thank him (Terry Talbot), lol. We didn't realize how blessed we were to live in LA, where so much of the Christian music was centered, until we left LA.
Oh yeah! By 81-82, there were Christian concerts every night of the week in SoCal. Only one I ever paid for was Stryper @Universal 87. Faves: Darrell Mansfield-he was at my house once, needed a shower after just gettin off a plane from Korea. D &K, Rez, Keith Green 🤯, Undercover, and...Steve Taylor! Saw a lot of them @ Magic Mountain. Anyhoo, the music has been, and is, such a blessing in my life. Honestly, sometimes only a song can reach me. Praise the Lord, he's comin back! Y'all ready??
I’ll never forget a phone call from a DJ up in PA. He asked if Laurie was in! He wanted to interview her as one of the pioneers of Christian Contemporary music! She was in The New Folk (Armageddon Experience) and they did an interview which was SO fun! The Jesus revolution was a sweet time. We were in SO Cal and Laurie’s uncle said we needed to go to a guy preaching in a HOUSE! Turns out it was Chuck Smith and the little church was Calvary Chapel!
O wow! So humble, so simple. What's happened to your people, Lord?😪
I got saved at the end of this period...1981. Without the Jesus Movement I don't know where I would have turned. Coming from a hippy background, the music was a lifeline.
Agree with the lifeline comment! Check out the Timeline for 1980-89 also!
Amen to that, sis!
Thanks for the walk (run!) down memory lane. It was great. I got saved in 1973, first through the Catholic Charismatic Movement. The Lord has been faithful these 50 years, not that they have all been easy, especially since 2020 began, the worst 3 years in the 50. But revival is about to explode once again; no wonder the devil is nervous!
"I'm confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work within me, He shall perform it until the Day of Jesus Christ." Phil. 1:6
AMEN X 3!!!
I am a 62 y/o grandmother who first got introduced to Jesus Music through a radio show called the Come Alive Show with Harry Thomas back in 1974, '75. I think the station was WPEN and the show played from 2pm - 4pm on Saturday afternoons. As a new Christian, age 15, when I first heard Larry Norman, Andre Crouch, Evie, The Omartians, Talbot Bros, 2nd Chapter of Acts and Keith Green I said "This is music that expresses the happiness I feel in Christ." This was before Christian Music was labeled CCM and before it became "big business". I thank God for all who contributed to helping a teen put into words the desires of her heart in song. This music was primitively sincere and honest. It helped me to hang onto Christ before I knew He was really the one hanging onto me. I praise God for all the people He has chosen to use to make Jesus known. There is a special place in heaven for all of those highlighted here.
What a great testimony!🙌🏾👆🏾✝️👑
God bless you,I feel the same,I'm 67 now and got saved during the great JESUS MOVEMENT!
I am 61 got saved at a Brian Ruud crusade at Evangelistic Temple in Houston 1973!
My day was Aug, 12, 1973 age 20, just got back to our little Missouri town and GOD tagged me, a couple weeks later moved to KCMO Agape Fellowship, moved into the House of Agape the commune and the rest is Mystory~ Paul Clark used to lead our worship sometimes, he has good JESUS music here on CZcams too~
I'm 50. My parents became Christian's in the mid 1970s ( I became a believer much later) so, I was raised on some of this.
Was so lost, and saved in the early 80s w young life camp. No one said dont sleep with your boyfriend. Which I continued to do. Pregnant and then a 17yo mom w a baby on my hip, my childhood church I went to youth group in frowned. I wasnt welcomed back in. I ran away for a while, ultimately returning to the church thru a Clavary Chapel early 90s. Raised my kids there, going to Creation, meeting artists who were real people. It was our lifestyle. Kids are (mostly)grown, doing their own thing, loving Jesus and His word thru the music and the book
I still listen to 2nd Chapter of Acts almost everyday...2022.
Cults are tough to leave, eh Brian?
@@linjicakonikon7666
On what planet would you think that The 2nd Chapter of Acts was a cult?
I listened to Powerline and cried and cried knowing that I was backslidden and I wanted to be free! God used it to draw me back to Him!
Good ol' Jon Rivers
In 1970 at the age of ten I accepted Jesus as my Lord & Savior. On Sundays, I would listen to The Harbor of Rest & then they'd play these Christian singers & the songs that I loved: Love Song, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Andrae Crouch, Evie, Larry Norman, Phil Keaggy, Children of the Day, John Fischer, Chuck Girard, The Archers, Keith Green, BJ, The Imperials, Don Fransisco, Petra & Amy Grant...I owe you all a debt of gratitude for the music that I listen to on the radio during my early years as a Christian. I know there were many others but these are the ones that I remember & still sing their songs.
Excellent overview…Love Song was my first experience with Jesus Music! On the East Coast God was using the ministry of Teen Challenge and David Wilkerson to reach urban youth. I was Saved at Philadelphia Teen Challenge in 1971. Barry McGuire introduced us to the 2nd chapter of Acts - what great anointed voices! (Easter Song is still a classic) and McGuire gave us “Bull frogs and Butterflies “ and “The Music Machine”! We built a model and used the concept to teach children in Lancaster , Ohio when I was pastoring my first church ! Great innovator. I had the privilege to minister with Tim Shepherd and Dallas Holm at 1st Assembly of God in Dallas Texas!
Thanks. That's enough.
I used to go to hear Chuck Gerard and Barry McGuire in Oakland ca for night of miracles. I remember you could feel the power of God so strong it was like electricity
Don't forget Barry McGuire's Cosmic Cowboy. God used that song to help me make a huge leap in my faith walk.
Love Barry Mcquire
Music written by Keith Green had huge impact on me. Gave my heart to Jesus when I was 10. It was nice to hear a lot of songs I knew but also those I hadn't heard of. Thank you for putting this together!
The Jesus music that came before was important, but I absolutely agree: When Keith Green's first album appeared on the scene in 1977 it was simply amazing to me. What a heart, what a clear message.
Keith Green was a late comer to the movement.
Keith Green was actually an old testament prophet in modern times. I know several guys who are featured in this video, and most of them weren’t as fond of him back then. When Keith finally gave his life to the Lord! It was 100%…… He did not accept any compromise in his life, or anyone else he encountered! I am now 58 years old, I spent my entire life knowing Christ. Honestly, Keith was actually right in the end. Either we live with conviction, or we live lukewarm like most of the American churches today.all of us will have to choose, life with Christ or life with this world!? Choose Christ!
@@raydude9208
You're talking to the willfully deaf "christians" here.
@@dr.krinkleweldon5934 yah, took he and Mel awhile to come to the end of their searching..
In 1975 we formed a band in Northern Michigan playing Stonehill, Keaggy, Love Song, Dog Wood, Pat Terry etc. A wonderful but challenging time because many churches rejected this style of music back then. Every teen we played to loved the music.
Most churches still do . Why I finally decided to quit playing guitar . 😢
My whole family listened to all every single one of these artists.
I still hold that Dogwood was the best group ever.
I was born again 79. A cassette of Keith Green's first 2 records was given to me. Then I heard KBRT 740AM (southern California, Mormon-owned then) playing tapes of Jesus music, no DJs. Then, I found the Christian bookstore @ the local mall (upstairs from the Mormon bookstore-a connection?🤔). There, I found this music. I gravitated to the harder rock, so I think This Time Thru (DeGarmo and Key) was the first I bought. Finally, in that oh-so-amazing year, I was taken to my first concert: the Resurrection Band. My mind was blown, and convinced me rock for Jesus can be used to reach people with the gospel. Keep on rockin for the Rock, y'all!
Wow! Thanks for this! Great memories of my teenage years listening to Jesus music in the 1970s. Listening to PowerLine was one of my very favorite things! I am 65 years old now and this music continues to hold a special place in my heart and soul!
I wish I could find more information about Powerline on the Internet, but it's such a generic term that it's hard to focus in on that particular radio show.
I LOVED POWERLINE!!!!!
So awesome! My moms band made the cut in 1971 Danny Lee and the Children in truth. She’s the adorable redhead on the cover! :)
That is really cool.
They were very good!!!
I remember singing praise songs with some of the hippies of the Jesus movement in a restaurant in California in 1972. It was a glorious time!
1977 baby! They said it would never last or it will wear off. 45 years later I love Jesus more, much more than 1977. He is so beautiful!!!!!!!! Bliss fest!!!!
I listen to Maranatha Music today have several albums on my computer which I have in a file that will play like 10 hours and on my mp-3 player also the same, when I go out walking my dog or working in the garden or around the house, I have my mp-3 worship music playing~ Keeps my tear ducts washed well~
I remember the first time I heard Noah by David and the Giants. It was live at a Holiday Inn in Decatur, Illinois and they were playing for the you th at a Full Gospel Businessman’s Fellowship International Conference. I got baptized in the swimming pool. I will never forget it! I was 16 or 17 years old and now I’m 60. I still love and serve the Lord Jesus!
You know you still listen to Keith Green a LOT when you feel like you're in a 70s time warp and then are suddenly shot into today when a Keith clips comes on.
Love Keith Green
Just listened to him today!
Australian artist, Sister Janet Mead, had a gold record in the Billboard chart reaching number 4 in April 1974 with her rock rendition of The Lord's Prayer.
Good point! I should have included that one for 1974!
I just found the song on You Tube--I DIG IT! I wonder if I might be related to her somehow? Mead is my mother's/father's/mother's maiden name!
She sang in Spanish didn’t she?
“I see I see eres Tu”
Indeed
I remember it well!
Jonathan from The Chosen plays the role of the anointed hippie who started the Jesus Movement in 1969. Matthew 6:1-2 ❤️ God used outcast, long hair hippies in 1969 to spark a revival that still goes on today. Amazing transformed people continue to reach the lost and expand God's kingdom. The Jesus Movement is still growing today. Chuck Smith taught the whole counsel of God, and said "blessed are the flexible." Calvery Chapel Costa Mesa grew because Pastor Chuck cared about souls. He preached "you need power from on High, you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit." What began in 1969 in Southern California, spread through Oregon, Mt Shasta, Idaho, Germany, England, Thailand and 21 orphanages.
Saved since 1978 . Still praising THE LORD , man I can't stop . CCM played a big part in sustaining my faith . Pietermartzburg kzn South Africa .
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I am nearly 60 yo, became at Christian at 33ish, Did NOT KNOW this treasure trove of music existed! Thank you so much for not only sharing it, but also including a document list of the songs! GOD BLESS YOU!!!
The Lord is primary, but the music has always been an enjoyable bonus!
My dad had quite a few of these records. I was born in 70, so this is definitely a trip. What I would give to have his collection.
So ask him!! He probably wonders who will value them once he passes away. I'd love it if my secular daughter said something like this to me!
My dad too! Born in 1973. I remember my parents playing some of these. ❤
Mine were all on cassettes, which I wore out. Then came the 80s and Christians playing metal, and tape-trading became the only way to hear these new bands
Wow, brought me back to when I was 16 in 1977. I REALLY liked the harder stuff like Rez band, DA, Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill...........on and on. The lock ccm station played a lot of these songs and when I got older I work at the station WHAZ. I remember seeing a lot of these albums. Great memories
One of my favorites not mentioned here for 1973 is the band called "Sonlight"
And Keith Green, Phil Keagy, Second Chapter of Acts
And Petra was a favorite of mine as well. Like you I liked it rockier if that is a word. But loved Keith Greens heart and Don Francisco had a couple powerful songs. Great list.
@@shancan6328 Yeah Petra had some great high vocals that I appreciate and ya know I still listen to this stuff on pandora on a channel called Daniel Amos Station
Blast from the past, I got to see Andrae' Crouch, BJ Thomas in concert at Red Rocks in Colorado. Plus I've had the privilege to see 2nd Chapter of Acts, Randy Stone Hill, Randy Matthews, Rez band, Dogwood, Sweet Comfort Band, Carman, Daniel Amos, in concert as well. And these are the ones I can remember. Out of all the ones I've meet in person Rez Band and Carman stand out the most.
There's others I've had the privilege to see in person but can't recall all of them, it's been 40 yrs plus.
I also saw BJ Thomas and Petra. BJ signed my shirt because the brochures he was signing were gone. : )
I grew up as a small child in the early 80s listening to 70s Christian on our stereo. My Mom was always listening to it, great memories......
Erik Nelson & Michelle Pillar's album touched me deeply - I can still remember the tears and the emotions I went through while listening to that album over 40 years ago. The Misfit was one of those albums that revealed the love of God to me in a way that I have never forgotten. I'm thankful for the music that came out of my generation during those years, but more thankful that God revealed himself to many of us in a time when there were so many other distractions pulling people away from considering the claims of Christ. Sort of reminds me of today with the culture so set against the idea and reality of God's love and His assurance that evil will be vanquished forever. Thanks for putting snippets of these meaningful and creative songs together!
That's one of the reasons I made this - the music and wakening to Jesus' call on my life went together at that special time. And yes, we desperately need a Jesus movement now, so many years later, for all of the same reasons it was needed back then!
Thank you for putting thus music timeline together. I just got back from seeing Jesus Revolution and this was a perfect followup! (I was saved in the Jesus Revolution in 1971.)
I was born in1969 yet even so many of these songs are so familiar! My dad was a pastor and I also must hav sheared these sings playing into the 80s. What a blast from the last!
Got saved in 1973, in Las Vegas NV.Benny Hester used to come around a lot. It's been 50 yrs now and I am still waiting for my precious saviour.
He's coming!
🎺 MARANATHA 🎺
It won't be as long as it has been!!
I was raised in the church. I was a teenager during the 70's. I was in a wonderful church as a teenager and remember most of these songs! What a trip down memory lane. Thanks you so much for this! WOW! I love it!
Oh yes Adams apple ft Wayne IN 72 just a bunch of so called Jesus freaks good music
WOW BRING BACK GOOD MEMORIES OF GOSPEL MUSIC OF 70S
AM PRODUCT OF JESUS PEOPLE MOVEMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES 70S
PSALMS 150
My favorites : LOVE SONG, ANDRAE CROUCH MARANATHA ETC
Saved in January 1977 at 17. Keith Green ten years ahead of his time. 2nd Chapter of Acts were brilliant. Barry Maguire was excellent. Don Francisco was such a great story-teller. Lamb were a favourite of mine too.
That was certainly a musical trip down memory lane. As I was listening to many of my favorite artists of those days and years, it came to mind, that my journey with my Savior began 50 years ago today! March 3rd, 1973! ❤🙏🙏🙏Thank you Lord Jesus! For ALWAYS being Faithful!!!
I love the early Jesus music! Thank you for sharing this with all of us! I would love to have whole albums of these artists. So pure!
Just saw "The Jesus Revolution" and was searching about the Jesus movement. I was born in 1971 so I was a child back then. I loved this video you made. I didn't know that a lot of the songs I knew were from the Jesus movement. I knew a few of them from camp when I was a kid. Also, some of the Christian artists I knew from the 1980's started then, which I didn't know. Thanks for putting this together!
Same here - watched the movie. I was born in 74. Connecting to this era I have not known.
Same, 1969 born. Some familiar tunes but didn’t quite know from when.
I didn't get saved until November 7th, 1981, but the Catholic Church I attended had a guitar mass, and quite a few of the songs listed on here we sang without my knowing. I started listening to contemporary Christian radio in I would say 1983 or 1984. And a few of the songs listened here actually managed to bleed over to that era. And then some of the songs I knew because more "modern" artists remade the song, so I got to experience it that way. There are a few that I knew that was like on some sort of throwback Thursday time slot, and I heard like Phil Keggy's "What a Day." I practically "grew up" on all things Amy Grant, so that was awesome. I am so thankful both for this video and for the movie "Jesus Revolution." This video was awesome, but if it wasn't for the movie, this video probably would not have made it into my feed. So thank you for both.
Was involve in this movement in 1969-79. Still following him today. Christian music has been a big impact in my life. Thanks for sharing.
What a great gift! God bless you for this encyclopedia of Jesus music!
I got to sing "There Is Love" at my little sister's & at my little brother's weddings. Some folks call it The Wedding Song. Heard it sung at many weddings. 💒
We have been following the revival going on in universities, that began at Asbury. It came up in our feed.
I love it. Was in the Jesus movement from 70 to 74. Even though i had my world turned upside down in Aug 74 and it took me years to listen to all this great music again without the pain, it brings back great blessings and memories now. Have met most of the Jesus People Musicians. Know one album that can't be found anywhere. it was by Agape and had a unique b/w photo of Jesus on the cover. They were a hard rocking band. Have transferred many of the albums over to cd
Did u get drafted?
I forgot about Agape!
Wow , that was fun, I was saved at the age of 15 and started listing to christian rock in 1977 , it was good to se Rez Band in your list since I'm from Chicago!
Keith Green, Honey Tree, Larry Norman ,Randy Stonehill were a huge part of my early walk with Jesus! Jesus Northwest was a 3 day Festival that I went to in 1978! Anybody else? I went to many many concerts in the day!
Only concert I recall getting to was Keith Green in Des Moines. Otherwise, I just had my radio shows. :-)
Steven Weyhrich, thanks so much for posting this. After reading all the comments I think I'm the oldest in this group, but I came to Jesus, born again on April 12, 1972 in a small church in Minnesota. I was in my early 30's then, but have remembered these times with much joy, and sadness at times. I have had to bury 3 wives in all that time, but remember with my 2nd wife going to the Jesus festivals and camping out and listening to music for 3, 4 days. I think the one in PA. was 4 days. Fantastic memories. We had our two young daughters with us, and though one would accept Christ, the other one hasn't (yet).
I have been collecting some of these songs that were mentioned, have some on vinyl which I am and have put on digital. I remember taking my Dad to see the Bill Gaither Trio was back in the 70's, when our Cousin Henry Slaughter and his wife Hazel Slaughter would play the first 1 hour and a half, then the Bill Gaither Trio would play the next hour and a half. Though I missed the Jesus Movement of the late 60's into early 70's (I got in on the tail end of it), better late than never. The 60's were a tough time. First wife, joined the Army, 3 sons, the Vietnam War, etc., She later died of MS. These songs you included have brought some joyful moments of remembrance to this old (in my 8th decade) man, and I want to thank you so very much. Know you could not include all of the songs due to time constraints and all, but you did a wonderful job.
God bless you, sir. See you around the Throne!
What a rich collection and wonderful heritage of Christian music! Brings back memories that spurred a closer walk with Jesus!
Was there near the beginning with the start of KCCS 1220 AM in Salem Oregon and the station being 80% music that was formatically all over the road...fun times and music memories...early times 2 artists did not note...Spurlows and Ralph Carmichal productions.
I started high school in 1969 - graduated in June 1973. I was definitely a lover of the Jesus People music of that time. In fact, I still have most of my albums from that time. I was pleased to see you included groups like Children of the Day. I would have given Keith Green more of a presence on the video - but maybe that was true for me since I grew up in CA.
I have every album of Keith Green's also, and did not live in CA. I picked songs based on what "charted" back in the day; so no one was favored or disfavored based on anything else but that. In the years before there was a "top 40" list of Christian songs, I just did my best to locate songs from each year.
I was just a little kid in this era but I distinctly remember many of these songs. My parents were involved in the JPUSA movement in CA then we moved to PA so this music was played a lot in the house.
What memories came to me as you went back in time. It was early to mid-70s when I started listening to Keith Green, Barry McGuire and 2nd Chapter of Acts, Don Francisco, Amy Grant... I came to Christ through the planting of Roy Hicks Jr. at Eugene's Faith Center. His teaching and preaching firmly planted God's Word in my heart and Keith Green watered it and still does daily for me. We were blessed that Faith Center hosted many of these performers. I use that word loosely. Many were performers, but Keith Green was so authentic. Our Jesus festivals, that I went to often were called Jesus Northwest. What fellowship! Thanks for uploading this Timesweep!!!
What great memories this brings back. I recommitted my life to Jesus in 1975, but struggled to all through the early 1970s, but surrendered finally in 1975. Things were better in 1976, but in 1977 a break up with my girl nearly killed me because it wasn’t for a good reason, no reason at all, and that’s what made it so hard. Another love saved me, but she always felt second best, and after 44 years we are separated, for good I’m afraid. Now I am drawn again to the comfort of inspired music. I was lucky to meet a number of these artists, and I thank them all for the kindness they showed, and the music they shared. Thank you!
I saw so many of them at church. Wow I remember this music. I own many of these albums Earnie Rettino was Psalty!
Thank you for this! I plan to play some of it in my high school history class (homeschool coop) to introduce the 70s
I was into classic rock in my teen years… late 90’s early 2000’s… wish I would have been exposed to this stuff!! Gave my heart to the Lord when I was 17… love Jesus music. Anything that honors God, I’m all for it!
Amen!
This is a walk down memory lane. I was a Sunday afternoon DJ in our campus radio station in 1978. I remember combing through these albums for our playlist. Keith Green’s first album swept so many up in the Lordship movement-strange to call it a “movement.”
Wow. Lots of great memories here. My favorite CCM album of all time is still 2nd Chapter of Acts - With Footnotes. Second favorite is Stonehill - Welcome to Paradise. Too many to list after that.
In 1967 I started a small band playing hymns and choruses to rock genre. In 1970 I joined a larger group as a bass player. We did musicals like "Natural High". I guess I was a part of the Jesus music.
You did a FABULOUS job working on this video!👏🏾👏🏾 It was not long eNOUGH!! You helped to make this last day of Passover VERY BRIGHT for me! I thank the Lord Jesus for you!
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Really miss this music from my childhood. Contemporary Christian music in the last 20 to 25 years just isn't the same, not nearly as deep.....
True!!!!!
Agreed.
Completely right. Give me Jesus Music every time.
Back to the truth of the Bible!
I hear you… often music from our past holds a special place in our heart because it’s part of the history of our life. Maybe today’s Christian music will mean more to you in 20-25 years from now. Just a thought, I could be wrong.
Great to have all these artists music remembered.
I didn't know how much I needed this! A few seconds of a song can bring back a flood of memories! 1969 for me was transformational, though not a part of the Jesus Movement directly I grew up with the music. Anyone else carry their "The Way" bible to Explo 72 in Dallas???
I didn't go to Explo '72, but I did have a copy of "The Way"
While I am not a Christian today, I still reach back to some Keith Green every so often. "Easter Song" will always be a personal fave.
Yeah, they should have included that one for sure.
This brought back such wonderful memories for me .I miss this kind of Jesus music ❤ love it Margaret Becker was one of my favorite
Great job putting this together. I was a DJ at a CCM station beginning in the mid 1980's and played a few of these songs. Really liked Sometimes Alleluia by Chuck Girard.
How fun it must have been for you to have worked at a Christian Radio Station, during that point in time! ✝️💓✝️
I walked down the aisle at my wedding to “Sometimes Alleluia”
@@juliewaldron2040 Pretty cool, Julie. Great way to honor the Lord on such an important day in your life.
Thank you so much for that! I was born again 1979, and the music really helped me in those times, as I came out of the rock world. Man, I could listen to this for hours!
The group LAMB. Messianic Christian Jews super great music so awesome.
I still love Lamb
@@rosebatham3342 Me too!
I’ve seen several of these groups, singers, musicians back in the 70s. It was great. What memories.😍
In the late 70s and early80s Ft.Wayne Sun.morn on WXKE couple hours of CCM great memories.Asked JESUS in my life '69,but really started living for HIM '79 HE IS LORD!(Honeytree and Petra from our city very young start)
I do want to thank you for doing this. There is little or no acknowledgement of these PIONEER artists of the past in any awards show I've ever seen. It's like someone doesn't like to remind people they existed. They paved the way of quite a few artists around today. They should give them their proper due now and again. Those young "hippie" kids were ON POINT. We could all use that again
So true. Well said.
Those hippies were radical.
Manners don't matter. Truth does.
Look up first love part 1 and 2
Wish everybody could see it
All pioneer Jesus movement mucisians
I was born again in 1984 in California when I was 41 years old. I am now 80 years old, and some of these songs took me back to the joy and happiness of those days. Thank you for this! Dallas Holmes and Praise, Don Francisco, B J Thomas, Maranatha Singers...I loved the days of Chuck Smith and Greg Laurie and Calvery Chapel
Great video. Having lived through it, watching the video and remembering the spirit of the music, I think I have come to the conclusion that “Jesus Music” and the music birthed through the Jesus people movement began to fade in 1975 and by 1978 was just for the most part CCM.
Sweet Comfort Band was by far the best band of the era. I wish they were featured more.
This is a most impressive time sweep of these tunes which were truly alternative back in the '70s and I really appreciate your opening overview of the Christian music radio shows which were aired on Top-40 stations early on Sunday mornings and that was actually my introduction to it all, dubbing Jesus Solid Rock onto reel from vinyl at WOOS-FM in Canton, Ohio in '78, good times. And I recall making an announcement about that program in adult Sunday school at church and getting crickets in response and O well, maybe someone reached for the dial and heard some Jesus music on the radio. And a year later I was back in California, KNBA the Mighty 1190 in Vallejo, and I enjoyed playing a handful of Christian tunes with all the hits and requests, two popular ones were Freddy Fender's Wasted Days and Wasted Nights and Signs by the Five Man Electrical Band and I just loved that audience and that little station had a monster signal, and incredibly Bob Dylan's Gotta Serve Somebody was a Top-40 hit that year and I played the album version, a little longer, plus a few of his album tracks here and there, such as When He Returns. Thanks again for your work with this compilation. 😀
That's a great story! I sometimes felt the same way, hey this is great music, and getting puzzled looks from people. Thanks for the kind comments!
Because of the Jesus Revolution movie about Calvary Chapel was interested in the 70s Christian Music. This is an AWESOME collection of music!
Wow! Thank you so much for this list. I come from the future and just watched JESUS REVOLUTION. It was an amazing motion picture about an amazing movement from God. And this was the music that accompanied it. Praise the Lord! 🙏
I hope to see that movie this weekend!
@@StevenWeyhrich ~ Highly recommended! 🙏
Steven, thank you for compiling this "timesweep." I was born again in 1979, so much of the groups, singers, and songs I am unfamiliar with but a few were around at that time because it was some of these songs that lighted the path to Christ for me. After becoming a Christian, I had a voracious appetite for Christian music. In fact, I went to Belmont College in Nashville for the purpose of making Christian music my vocation. That didn't pan out (Waaayyy too competitive and, candidly, not very Christian in camaraderie), but I continued to sing in churches and events and remained committed to CCM. Anyway, while many of the songs from your 1969-1979 timesweep were unfamiliar, most were VERY familiar in the timesweep of 1980-1989. Again, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Being somewhat associated with production, I appreciate the time you took to research, compile, and piece it all together. Not easy and it must have taken a long time. If there's a way to contribute financially, post the link. God bless you because he blessed me through your work here.
Thanks for the kind words. No donations needed or being taken - just a labor of love, as they say. None of these Jesus music videos are (or, because of copyright issues, can be) monetized, I just want to share the music that has blessed me all these years. And, I always enjoyed those timesweep type of music compilations for popular music, and felt that Christian music really needed it also! 🙂
If you like the music from the 1980s, be sure to check out the WHME-FM videos I have put up. Those cover the 1980s and into the 1990s. Just a search for that station name is all you need to do.
God snagged me age 16 as a good but unchurched kid who needed Jesus in 1970 in L.A. basin, "Since I opened up the Door, Can't think of anyone else but Jesus anymore" describes my conversion, when Come to the Waters (Children of the Day) was making the rounds among High School students (easy to sing acapella and easy to remember lyrics) ... so soon wound up finding most of these albums after college (was too poor to buy any in college, so borrowed friend's albums in the Brother's House in Socorro, New Mexico). I mail-ordered two poorly done Wilson McKinley albums and figured they made maybe 200 or so copies ... seemed that low budgeted ... so shocked to see both albums as well-known enough to get on this timesweep. Favorite got started albums: earliest Maranatha Albums (Hi Debbie!), Explo72, What A Day, 2ndChapter of Acts (Easter Song), Love Song, To The Bride. I still have most of the vinyl LPs shown on this timesweep.
What a collection to have!
Never heard these songs but they bring so much joy into my heart
I have many of the full songs in playlists, see the main page for those playlists!
@@StevenWeyhrich thanks, i will
The two groups that influneced my life the most is Andre Crouch and the Disciples and Love Song. And the solist was Larry Norman and Phil Keagy (perhaps one of the GREATESTguitarist EVER)
I'd forgotten how much I miss this era of music. So powerful and bold. Thank you for this dedication!💛
Thank you for the tremendous amount of work you put into making this video. It brings back many wonderful memories.
So very thankful that my college room mate brought his brother's 70s Jesus tunes. Thank you Marty Bowen...Ferris State College - Big Rapids, MI 1986.
This is great!!! Thank you for making this. I was in several Christian bands back then and the memories are roaring like a waterfall
I am going crazy! God is one who answers prayers. I’ve been looking for Christian rock music that has that same dynamic and creative sound that I hear in various rock sub-genres. I’ve been browsing through a lot of CZcams channels that have a collection of “secular” sounding gospel but most, if not all of it is pop, hip hop and RnB. A lot of which I appreciate and I think is quite good, but what I’ve really been craving is some good, creative, experimental rock music that feeds my soul! This makes me so happy. I’ve always loved the “golden oldies” (sorry 😬), but I’ve come to listen to and appreciate more of these songs recently. And I know that, in time, there will be more rock music from today’s music scene that we can listen to that is just as creatively rich, diverse, and satisfying that glorifies the Lord. The glorifying the Lord part is what makes it that much more awesome. Thank you for this.
Check out the playlists in the pinned comment for full versions of some of these songs!
@@StevenWeyhrich Thanks 😊👍🏾
saved 1975...evie, andre and my all time fave keith green
In Jan and Feb 2023 I have seen a big spike in views on this video that I posted way back in 2017. Could you leave a comment and tell me how you heard about it?
This is the music I came to the Lord with. My generation. The recent revival at
Asbury University and the Jesus Revolution movie has brought those wonderful songs back to me. We sang out of our heart and usually with Scripture as the wording. It started to get too commercial in the late 70s.
The movement was real, though at the time many Christians believed if it was real God would have made the converts just like them.
It’s the interest in Jesus music because of the movie, Jesus Revolution.
It came up as a video I might like to watch after being at the Jesus revolution. Thank you for a blast from the past
Saw Jesus Revolution today. If “they’re” tracking me,I’m glad this is what they’re seeing. 😋
Lots of free concerts in the early days. The more money got involved the more it became influenced by commercial value. The worship music we sang in early days were written to help teach scripture or some key idea from scripture. Simple yet transformative!
The reason a lot of bands stopped being bands was because they weren't making money. There is nothing wrong with making money to stay in business.
Really great 'blast from the past.' I had the pleasure of working with many of these groups!
I was a young teenager when Christian Contemporary Music became popular. I grew up on The 2nd Chapter Of Acts, The Imperials, Barry McGuire, Honeytree, Liberation Suite, Andre Crouch, Love Song, Evie....What an amazing time the 70's were for Christian music! I wouldn't trade it for anything! I'm so lucky to have lived it!
This refreshment of Jesus music is just what I needed for my soul today!! I sure do miss this Era Thank you
....became a follower 28 Oct 1978.
That’s so cool that you know the exact date!
This was such a blessing. I can't way all the same music would be picked by Christians so heavily influenced by Christian music during that time, but it was totally awesome. I believe God directed you to do this. Thank you so much!
What a compilation ! Thank you Steven .
I never heard most of these praise songs of Jesus. Love the album cover art. I did grow up in this Era and in Hawaii then, AM (amplitude modulation) Raido was king. Of course we have The KING, Ha Melech, Jesus
Awesome review of early Christian music! Wonderful job of research, education and compilation.