Tuesday 15 January 2013

Tuesday's Tune 1

We all know from experience that music has the ability to affect us emotionally - songs can be very powerful. We also know that some songs have the ability to get in our heads and stay there for days on end. Sometimes this is good - sometimes it's really annoying. 

On Sunday evening we had a look at some our favourite songs and hymns. And over the next few weeks, on a Tuesday morning, I'm going to link to some of those songs that were mentioned. Hopefully some of them will get stuck in your head and spend the day there - not just the tunes but particularly the words.

First up was 'How great Thou art' which was chosen along with the following video from 1961.

The person who chose this hymn on Sunday writes:

'Then Sings My Soul' is addressed to the Lord and stirs my heart to pull out all the stops and praise him. It was translated from a Swedish song, using the Swedish tune, and it was often sung by George Beverly Shea (now aged 103) at Billy Graham crusades, like the one I attended in 1950 during the week of my conversion to Christ.