Comments on: LP Review: “Keep on Singing” (Cathedral Quartet)

By: Mike Garner

Mike Garner — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:48:09 +0000

I just found a copy of the Aladdins Temple video. The quality is not great due to the age and time frame of the video, believe it or not, they actually use tracks through about half of the video, which was interesting to hear. Overall its a great video, very unique, but good. You can tell they were experimenting with the whole live video thing during the recording. At one point, George almost falls from the stage not paying attention, and it is obviously not planned as you can well tell as he catches his balance. Its a classic….

By: Grigs

Grigs — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:47:23 +0000

I thinks I agrees with you….

By: Nathan McClay

Nathan McClay — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:55:11 +0000

actually I think it’s very interesting, not I thinks:)

By: Nathan McClay

Nathan McClay — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:53:52 +0000

Daniel,
Thanks for the info about the different pressings of the album. I’m sure whatever they sold to the public at that time, they’d want to feature their new line-up. When they did sold the cheap tapes from the magazine, they had a version (it seems to me) that had Kirk on side one and Roy on the first part of side 2 and ended up with Kirk again for “Holy Is Thy Name.” Though this version seems strange, I thinks it’s very interesting.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:47:57 +0000

Grigs–on my rendition, it’s clearly Kirk on the chorus.

By: Grigs

Grigs — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:18:36 +0000

There used to be a series of “Keep On Singing” songbooks with a logo that was either the same or similar to the one on this album cover. I always assumed this was a promtional tie-in of some sort.

I also could have sworn that I heard the Cathedrals singing “He Will Roll You Over The Tide” either on the radio or “Gospel Singing Jubilee” with George doing verse one and Kirk doing verse two. Maybe I dreamed it.

The Nelons also did a nice version of “Holy Is Thy Name”. This was also the first song L5 ever did on the NQC main stage in 2000. It was quite nice. Most of the previous groups had been using a lot of tracks, barnburners, and power ballads and the “four guys and a piano” was a sweet change of pace. Best singing I ever heard Josh Cobb do….in fact, it might have been the best I’ve ever heard L5.

By: Daniel J. Mount

Daniel J. Mount — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:39:23 +0000

If it’s a Gaither video, it’s still in print.

Nathan, there were different pressings of the album with different combinations of voices. I can’t remember which song, but I do know I heard a friend’s version of a song from the project that featured Roy Tremble, while the version on my copy most certainly features Kirk Talley.

By: Quaid

Quaid — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:31:03 +0000

Yes, Cathedral history is facinating. (that is: to a Cathedral QT fan)
So if Kirk says “He don’t plant nor so”, and that is improper grammer, then Candy Hemphill recorded it wrong also.
L5 did “Holy Is Thy Name” on a Gaither video with Josh Cobb? I’ve got to find a copy of that. Is it still in print?

By: Nathan McClay

Nathan McClay — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:37:41 +0000

I’ve listened to this recording several times. I bought it when the Cathedrals were selling old tapes in the Singing News for $5 a piece. I’m convinced, though, that Roy Tremble is singing the tenor on “I Want to Be Just Like My Lord”, and it sounds like him on “I’ve Come to Far to Look Back” and “I’ve Been to Calvary” and “Thank You, Lord…”, which would make the lineup Younce/Lee/Payne/Tremble! I would think that intro to “I Want to Be Just Like My Lord” sounds like Lorne Matthews and I don’t think Roger Bennett was on the radar screen yet when this album was produced. (Is this another table project?)
I’ll go out on a limb here, but the “Holy Is Thy Name” lineup sounds like Younce/Webster/Payne/Talley. Is that possible? If I’m right about these things, this mix and match album would probably indicate that this is the album Glen was working on when he heard about the Matthews/Tremble/Webster departure. I’d like to thank Daniel for bringing up these Cathedral albums. Isn’t Cathedral Quartet history interesting?

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:54:54 +0000

Daniel –
“Keep on Singing” has long been a favorite of mine as well in spite of the grammar on “Consider the Lillies”. Everytime I hear “consider the sparrow, he DON’T plant nor sow…it’s like fingnails on a chalkboard. “Holy is Thy Name” is my favorite song on this project- just a piano and 4 voices. The Gaither Christmas release in 2001 “A Time for Joy” has a live recording of L5 doing this song with Joshua Cobb on tenor (he does a fine job). This is my favorite version – the live setting and “no tracks” stirs the soul. When I heard the later L5 version on the London project it was disappointing they did not capture the purity of the two earlier versions. It’s late – hope my grammar is proper.

Really enjoy your site.