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John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Horace Jones Sings For The Bright Spot Hour
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Crimson Calvary Answers No [sample] ... auto-starts Some Golden Daybreak [sample] ... click to start Music CD Index: 1. Dr. Harold B. Sightler’s Introduction to the old LP album 2. Dr. James H. Sightler’s comments on this new CD 3. Then One Day I Met My Savior 4. There’s No One Like Jesus To Me 5. After 6. Jesus Is All You Need 7. Think On Thy Way 8. Crimson Calvary Answers No 9. Sometime 10. Some Golden Daybreak 11. When He Smiles On Me, prayer by Horace, Precious Lord Take My Hand 12. Beyond the Sunset, duet with Miss Minnie Brewer 13. Good Night and Good Morning, duet with Miss Minnie Brewer 14. I’m Going Higher Some Day 15. Home Sweet Home 16. Blessed Redeemer 17. No One Ever Cared For Me Like Jesus 18. Why Should He Love Me So 19. Then Jesus Came, prayer by Horace |
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When the Bright Spot
Hour began in 1943 local programs over WMRC and WESC were live.
But to put programs on stations in distant places it was
necessary to record and send them out by mail. The recordings
were done live, often at the time of the daily local program.
Magnetic tape had not come into use, and so the recordings were
put onto acetate discs. These were aluminum, 16 inches in
diameter, coated with an acetate polymer plastic. The rotated at
33 1/3 RPM, but the tone arm moved from the inside of the disc
to the outside. They were made in the radio station control room
while the preacher and singers were in a studio with a single
RCA microphone. Only one “take” of the entire 15 minute
broadcast could be done. Small mistakes had to be accepted. When
the discs were mailed and used in other radio stations wear and
damage in handling were inevitable and resulted in surface
noise.
Horace Jones was saved in 1938. He was a
remarkable singer and deacon at Pelham Baptist Church when my
Dad became pastor in 1943. He attended shape note singing
schools at Pelham but was largely self taught and greatly
talented. He was wholly dedicated to serving the Lord and sang
at Pelham Baptist Church, on the radio, and traveled with my Dad
to many revivals. He had been heard on the Bright Spot Hour on
XERF in Del Rio, Texas and reached a national audience. He was
very well known and loved. Tragically he developed stomach
cancer in 1948 an went home to be with the Lord on February 3,
1950, only 34 years old. 10,000 people attended his funeral.
In 1973 Dr. Harold B. Sightler took the
best preserved of the acetate discs which remained from 1943 to
1949 and selected 6 songs to put on a master tape from which a
33 1/3 RPM album was made. On the reverse side it had a sermon
preached by my Dad on Mt. Calvary. In 1973 microcomputers
capable of sophisticated music editing were still 30 years in
the future. So my Dad had to be content to take the best songs
he had left from the old discs and put them onto the LP album.
The records sold out, but the master tape was kept.
Daddy went home to be with the Lord in
1995 and my dear mother in 2001. Soon after we found 5 more old
acetate discs in a drawer of her secretary. Because of heavy use
and age the quality of sound was not as good as on those used in
1973. After we found these discs my nephew, Dr. Ben Carper,
director of the Bright Spot Hour, transferred everything on
them, live programs of prayers, sermons, and songs to CD. We
also found a single 78 RPM recording made by Horace in May, 1949
in Columbia, SC on the FOX label. On it were the songs Some
Golden Daybreak and Sometime which had not been on the 1973
album.
Beginning in February 2005 Sightler Publications had the old
master tape and the 78 RPM record digitally remastered and put
onto CD. With the latest and best computers and programs enough
surface noise was removed from the acetate discs to make 12 more
songs and 2 of Horace Jones’ prayers usable. We have put these
18 songs on a CD in a form that is enjoyable and uplifting. We
decided to accept some surface noise in the last 12 songs for
good reasons. The first is the spiritual quality of the music.
Then there is our respect for the memory of Daddy and Horace
Jones and Misses Minnie Brewer and Nadine Brookshire, whom we
loved so much and who set such a great and lasting example for
us by their dedication to the Lord’s work. Furthermore we wish
to seek and bear witness to the old paths, and the good way, of
gospel music in the early days of the Bright Spot Hour., the
paths wherein its staff always walked. We believe that these
wonderful old songs will be a handful on purpose, and a renewed
blessing. As Daddy said so beautifully in 1973, “a blessing to
yout heart, and to your heart, and to yours.”James H. Sightler M.D., July 9, 2005
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