Song Samples (MP3 Format) Oh, What A Beautiful City (8.474 MB mp3 file)  Noah (5.220 MB mp3 file)  This Is My Song (4.702 MB mp3 file) American Religious Songs - Celebrating five centuries of American religious history through song.  Playing time: three plus hours.  Includes 3 CDs and printed supplemental Notes on the Songs. Buy/Stream Individual Songs/Disks Online. Disk 1     Disk 2     Disk 3 "American Religious Songs -- ...Keith and Rusty McNeil ...with many supporting singers, have hit gold again in their California home with their three-CD set titled American Religious Songs with historical narration... This is simply a set not to be missed, and every church group (at least) should want a copy to get some insight into what they are singing and the story behind each selection."  Art Times Part One: 1492 to 1800 On board the Pinta, Niña and Santa Maria Columbus’ sailors sing the Gregorian chant SALVE REGINA, a song about the Virgin Mary.  Huron Indians learn about the birth of Jesus through song.  Psalm singing comes to America.  Quakers sing, Shakers dance.  “New Light” religions create new words to British secular songs.  Maryland becomes the first and only English Catholic Colony in America. The Louisiana Purchase. Catholic leader Father Junipero Serra establishes  a series of missions in California bringing new music to the region. The new national government separates church and state.  The Songs: Oh, What A Beautiful City (8.474 MB mp3 file) Salve Regina We Gather Together Old Hundredth Jesous Ahathonia Native American Instruments Kyrie Eleison The Quaker's Courtship Entre Le Boeuf Simple Gifts Come Life, Shaker Life Captain Kidd-Wondrous Love Chester Scotland The Brave Alabado El Cántico Del Alba Pedida De La Posada Part Two: 1800 to 1860 Moving West.  Shape Note singing.  Slavery.  Abolitionists.  Joseph Smith founds the Mormon religion.  Persecution sends Mormons westward.  Mormon converts arrive from Europe, push handcarts across the plains to the great Salt Lake.  Famine in Ireland sends Irish-Catholic refugees to America.  “Know Nothings” push anti-Catholic agenda.  The Songs: Say Brothers Will You Meet Us Northfield The Promised Land Amazing Grace The Abolitionist Hymn Kugadza Umambo Oh Mary Don't You Weep Go Down Moses All The Way To Californy Come, Come Ye Saints The Handcart Song The Famine Song Paddy And The Know-Nothings A Mighty Fortress Is Our God O Tannenbaum Part Three: 1860 to 1890 Civil War.  Pro and con religious justification of slavery.  Free African-Americans create new musical sounds at Congo Square in New Orleans.  Italians swell America’s Catholic population.  Mennonite immigrants produce American winter wheat.  The “Social Gospel” comes to the United States.  Temperance.  Native American Ghost Dancers slaughtered.  The Songs: God Save The South The Battle Hymn Of The Republic Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last Noah (5.220 MB mp3 file)  Nearer My God To Thee Ave Maria Bulbe Let Us Light The Candles V' Taher Libenu Grosser Gott Wir Loben Dich The Cowboy's Heaven Onward Christian Soldiers When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder Revive Us Again-Hallelujah I'm A Bum-Hallelujah I'm A-Travelin' Hold The Fort Storm The Fort The Whiskey Shops Must Go Arapaho Ghost Dance Song Part Four: After 1890 Mainstream Protestant religions split between North and South. Immigrants increase America’s Jewish population.  World War Two.  Civil Rights.  Pacifism.  Eastern religions gain prominence.  The Songs: Daniel Prayed Farther Along I'll Fly Away Just A Closer Walk With Thee Where The Soul Never Dies Angel Band Life's Railway To Heaven The Hell-Bound Train The Royal Telephone Dives And Lazarus Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition Hine Ma Tov Morning Has Broken We Shall Overcome Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream Mir Nam Na Tischulyet Muslim Call To Prayer Raghupati Raghava Rajah Ram This Is My Song (4.702 MB mp3 file) They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love In My Father's House Amazing Grace Back to: Back to: