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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSong I've come to love: "First Hymn from Grand Terrace" by Mark Lindsay
Anyone else know and love this beautiful song?
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Song I've come to love: "First Hymn from Grand Terrace" by Mark Lindsay (Original Post)
The Genealogist
Jun 2018
OP
I hope he does it when I seen him next Sunday at the Bethesda Jazz Club
50 Shades Of Blue
Jun 2018
#2
Thanks! I'm really excited about seeing Mark Lindsay after all these years.
50 Shades Of Blue
Jun 2018
#5
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)1. I was a major Raiders fan, so I also bought Lindsay's three solo albums.
The "Arizona" album wasn't Raiders music, to be sure, but it was still Lindsay's voice.
From Allmusic:
When Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders fame made his solo debut in 1969, he explained that the album did not reflect "a change in [his] musical tastes, but rather an extension of them." Arizona, produced by Jerry Fuller, moved in the direction of adult pop, with songs by John Denver ( "Leaving on a Jet Plane" ) and Rod McKuen ( "Love's Been Good to Me" ). The dynamic title track, with its hushed verses and bombastic chorus, became a Top Ten hit and Lindsay's most successful solo single, while the album's lone original composition, "Man From Houston," adopted an enticing country flavor. "First Hymn From Grand Terrace" and "Miss America" performed better on the adult contemporary than pop charts, which gives some indication of the album's tone. Lindsay's album isn't far removed from his contemporaneous work with the Raiders, but bears a certain similarity to Bobby Sherman. His stab at becoming a hip but broadly appealing mainstream vocalist met with only a couple of years of moderate-to minor success before petering out, only shortly ahead of the Raiders' own commercial demise.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/arizona-mw0000869615
https://www.allmusic.com/album/arizona-mw0000869615
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)3. I hope to find the album LP
I did find it once in an antique mall, but it was in such bad shape I passed on buying it. I do however have the single of "Arizona" on 45.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,111 posts)2. I hope he does it when I seen him next Sunday at the Bethesda Jazz Club
as part of the Happy Together tour!
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)4. I hope you enjoy the concert!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,111 posts)5. Thanks! I'm really excited about seeing Mark Lindsay after all these years.
musette_sf
(10,209 posts)6. Yep, I loved this too back in the day.
I have not listened to it in ages, and so did so at your YT link. I originally knew it from my Mom's Richard Harris album in its full version ("The Hymns From The Grand Terrace" .
First thought on first re-listen: "What a Jimmy Webb tune!".