Tag: reader requests

All Right, One More Quokka Picture REPRINT

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From May 30, 2019

Byron the Quokka writes: Hi! This is me with my dad. His name is Edgar. He is a famous historian. He’s got proof that Queen Guinevere was a quokka! He’s always being asked to give lectures about it, and after the lecture we all have pretzels. He is also able to prove that Camelot was in Australia. I never get tired of hearing all his stories about the quokkas of the Round Table!

If you wonder why this picture shows Dad and me looking through a chain-link fence, well, the fence was there and the guy with the camera was on the wrong side of it. Sometimes they have to put up fences to keep the humans from wandering into trouble. It takes an awful lot of quokkas to pull one human out of a mud-hole.

By Request, ‘Life is Like a Mountain Railroad’ REPRINT

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From January 27, 2016

 

My editor, Susan, requested this. I couldn’t find it by Johnny Cash, but I think you will all enjoy this version by a French folk singer whom I never heard of–it’s quite a beautiful little piece of gospel music.

Note to Joe Collidge: The duct tape works just fine, you fat-head.

From Michele NOAH from 1946

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By Request, ‘I Surrender All’

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Oops! Temporarily forgot this hymn request–I Surrender All, requested by Thewhiterabbit. If there;s an extra hymn today, consider it a bonus.

By Request, ‘I Can Only Imagine’

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Requested by Susan, performed by Mercyhymns Me, I Can Only Imagine.

It looks like it’s going to be a drizzly, dreary day out here in Jersey. Brighten it up a little with some hymn requests.

By Request, ‘Noah’s Song’

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Here’s one for you from 1946: Noah’s Song, by the Jubilaires. Requested by Michele.

(Did we have television in 1946? I dunno, I wasn’t here yet.)

By Request, ‘Ten Thousand Reasons’

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WordPress won’t tell me who requested this, but here it is: Ten Thousand Reasons, sung by Matt Redman.

We have to be steadfast in our devotion to the LORD Our God. I’m in the process of finding out how hard that is.

By Request, ‘Days of Elijah’

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Thank you, “Thewhiterabbit,” for suggesting this–Days of Elijah, sung by a mess hall filled with US Marines. I wonder if they had this song when my Uncle Ferdie was a Marine.

By Request, ‘A Mighty Fortress Is Our God’

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Well, that hit the spot! The hymn, that is. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Martin Luther, presented by Reawaken Hymns–that’s what hit the spot.

Let’s turn the hymns loose today. There must be more of them out there that can refresh the spirit and restore the soul. [Requested by “Someone.” *Sigh*]

By Request, ‘Michael Row the Boat Ashore’

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My stars, how hearing this brings me back! Michael Row the Boat Ashore, sung by the Highwaymen–1960. Requested by TheWhiteRabbit.

How popular was this song? In the summer of 1960, after the Highwaymen’s appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, you heard it everywhere. The song is still here–but what happened to the Highwaymen?