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Brian Edwards Member From: Downers Grove, Illinois, USA |
posted 13 November 2003 07:50 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 Member From: Burien, WA, USA |
posted 13 November 2003 07:52 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" Karlis |
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Jim Smith Member From: Plano, TX, USA |
posted 13 November 2003 08:01 PM
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Amazing Grace?  |
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Brian Edwards Member From: Downers Grove, Illinois, USA |
posted 13 November 2003 08:04 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 Member From: Edmonton Alberta |
posted 13 November 2003 09:12 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 Member From: Downers Grove, Illinois, USA |
posted 13 November 2003 09:46 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 Member From: Ottawa Valley, Canada |
posted 13 November 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. RW |
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Janice Brooks Moderator From: Pleasant Gap Pa |
posted 14 November 2003 07:13 AM
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I thought it was based on a folk ballad Nelly Gray? ------------------ |
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Jason Stillwell Member From: Soper, OK, USA |
posted 14 November 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 Member From: Dunlap, Tennessee, USA |
posted 14 November 2003 01:19 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 Member From: Whitby, Ontario, Canada |
posted 14 November 2003 02:16 PM
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Judge for yourselves-- ------------------ |
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Ralph Willsey Member From: Ottawa Valley, Canada |
posted 14 November 2003 02:19 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 Member From: Atlanta Ga. USA |
posted 16 November 2003 07:14 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 Member From: Ottawa Valley, Canada |
posted 19 November 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 It would be interesting to know what Lowell Mason started with. Anybody know? |
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SallyAnn Wallace Member From: Alvarado, Texas, USA |
posted 20 November 2003 07:55 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 Member From: Graniteville SC Aiken |
posted 22 November 2003 03:49 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 Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA |
posted 22 November 2003 04:22 PM
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Same chords, but I hear it as a different melody. |
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daynawills Member From: Sacramento, CA |
posted 23 November 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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Myron Labelle unregistered |
posted 23 November 2003 02:06 PM
"Precious Memories" ------------------ |
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Rick McDuffie Member From: Smithfield, North Carolina, USA |
posted 23 November 2003 05:56 PM
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Er... all of them?? |
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Carter York Member From: Austin, TX [Windsor Park] |
posted 24 November 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 Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA |
posted 24 November 2003 02:01 PM
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That one's pretty close, Carter. |
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Fred Shannon Member From: Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas |
posted 24 November 2003 03:32 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 Member From: Fulton, MS. U.S.A. |
posted 25 November 2003 10:30 AM
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Dayna, The Ronnie Milsap song you're thinking of is "Back on my mind, again". Lem |
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