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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK SPS309CD Booklet-Pgs20&1 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK 1. Hurry Shepherds Puerto Rican 1967 2. A Starry Night Webb 1964 3. This Little Boy Davidson 1965 4. Hush, Hush, Hush Austrian 1967 5. The Little King Jesus Wiggins/Ingles 1966 6. Just be Grateful Davidson 1967 7. Silent Night, Holy Night Gruber 1966 8. We Three Kings of Orient Are Hopkins 1966 9. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen Traditional 1967 10. Such a Tiny Child Webb 1965 11. The Holly and the Ivy Traditional 1966 12. Czech Rocking Carol Czech Traditional 1967 13. Mary’s Boy Child Hairston 1966 14. The Only One Dalziel 1965 15. Carol of the Bagpipers Italian 1967 16. What Dreams are you Dreaming Davidson 1965 17. Away in a Manger Luther/Kirkpatrick 1966 18. Winter’s Coming On Davidson 1965 19. O Little Town of Bethlehem Brooks 1966 20. Once in Royal David’s City Gauntlett/Alexander 1967 21. Rise up Shepherd and Follow African-American Spiritual 1967 22. Dance of the Shepherds Ancient Basque 1967 23. Christmas can be Every Day for You Webb 1966 C&P 2012 SP&S, a division of Salvation Army Trading Company Ltd. 66-78 Denington Road, Wellingborough, Northants. NN8 2QH All rights of the owner and of the producer of the works reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited. (MCPS) SPS 309 CD SPS309CD Booklet-Pgs20&1 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK INTRODUCTION by Sylvia (Gair) Dalziel Tomorrow may hold everything you fear, Credits So take this day and hold its memory dear, Executive Producer: Trevor Caffull The lead up to Christmas always brought many invitations for a performance from the And you will fi nd it’s true, Whatever you may do Mastering: Adam Goldsmith Joystrings. Production Manager: Nicki Tonge That Christmas can be every day for you. Design & Artwork: Andrew Wainwright During the summer of 1964, with fi ve of us as second year students (cadets) at The Research & Creative Input: Peter Dalziel Salvation Army Training College in London, we were rehearsing for our fi rst Christmas Christmas can be every day for you, single written by Joy, that was to prove over the years to be a huge success not only for And this year be the best you ever knew. Restoration work by the group, but a song which would become part of schools' Christmas music – A Starry If the love this child imparts Wave Star Pro Night. This song, like Open Secret, went straight into the UK charts. can be held within your heart, Audio Restoration Studio Then Christmas can be every day for you. Belgium - www.wsp-audio.com In between our studies the group took part in a London City function to aid the Lord Mayor's Christmas Charity Appeal, gave a Christmas concert for the boys of Dr Barnado’s Every day, every day, every day for you. Homes and played to staff and patients at The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital as part of their Christmas celebrations. By November 1965 we were ready with a new EP recording, Christmas with the Joystrings, featuring This Little Boy, What Dreams are you Dreaming, Such a Tiny Child and Winter's Coming On, with ABC Television giving the group 45 minutes on Christmas Day for a Christmas programme. In November of 1966, the Joystrings were invited to Liverpool. Peter, Bill and Wycliffe had all spent some of their youth in that city, so it was a memorable visit for them, but particularly for all the group members since we had been invited to play in the world- famous Cavern Club, where The Beatles did some of their inaugural work. The Joystrings ‘performed’ at midnight for two hours and were introduced to the hundreds of young people who had crowded into the club as ‘a group with a difference’. An impression must have been made on the people of Liverpool because just a few weeks later it was back to Liverpool Cathedral to take part in a special Christmas service for young people. SPS309CD Booklet-Pgs2&19 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Dance of the Shepherds In the winter’s snow and ice Also that year, Tom Jones, whose Green, Green Grass of Home was in seventh place in the charts at the Leaves and buds are growing. time, invited the Joystrings to be on his 45-minute, Tom Jones Christmas Radio Show to be transmitted In the midst of winter night See the morning star appears on Christmas afternoon. All the sky was singing. In the darkness glowing. Giving us Salvation light Messenger of peace and joy Cliff Richard also showed great interest in the Joystrings, since he had become a Christian and was Joy of Heaven bringing Found today in this small boy involved in presenting Christian Gospel shows at the time. In fact, Bill was able to meet up with him just All the shepherds sing along before Christmas and presented Cliff with the latest Joystrings LP, Well Seasoned, recorded in autumn. Every bird joins in the song Let the bell, let the drum, Turn around, turn around, Selfridges of Oxford Street invited the group to perform for four days to their customers in the lead Let the zither beat Let the bell-drum be heard up to Christmas, and the producers of the radio programme Home This Afternoon, a programme for Sing and stamp your feet, Christ is born! older listeners, also featured the Joystrings, together with The International Staff Band, on air just before Let the bell, let the drum, Christmas. Let the bell-drum be heard, Christ is born! Christmas can be Every Day for You A hospital performance; two appearances at the Fairfi eld Halls, Croydon; Christmas with The Salvation Peace and love are being born Every day, every day, every day for you. Army at Westminster Hall; St. Paul's Cathedral steps (Help the Aged Appeal) and Trafalgar Square for the To remain for ever; switch-on of Christmas tree lights were all Little rabbit, hedgehog, fawn The children start to carol in the night, on the December schedule. Perhaps worth Sing away together. The candles glow, and everything is bright. more than just a mention is the Christmas Shepherds all join in the theme, The time we love so well Benefi t Concert that year in aid of the Singing of a new-found dream. is casting its old spell, Aberfan Disaster Fund at The Royal Albert If only it was always Christmas night. Hall, which featured the Small Faces, Cat Let the zither beat Stevens and the Joystrings. Sing and stamp your feet, Christmas can be every day for you, Let the bell, let the drum, And this year be the best you ever knew. Summer of 1967 saw us rehearsing for a Let the bell-drum be heard, If the love this child imparts new Christmas LP, Carols around the World – Christ is born! can be held within your heart, with The Joystrings, taking traditional carols Then Christmas can be every day for you. from countries like Spain, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Australia, and giving them our Every day, every day, every day for you. own arrangements and style. SPS309CD Booklet-Pgs18&3 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK That year, on the morning of 27 November at Peek Rise up Shepherd and Follow Frean's South London factory, Joy, Peter and I were then asked to stir the largest Christmas pudding in There's a star in the east on Christmas morn, Come on and leave your sheep Rise up, shepherd, and follow! and leave your lambs, the world, weighing over a quarter of a ton, using Well it will lead to the place Rise up, shepherd, and follow! a gigantic wooden spoon! The pudding, which where the Saviour was born: You must leave your ewes took two weeks to make, was a gift from the biscuit Rise up, shepherd, and follow! and you must leave your rams, company to The Salvation Army and when cooked, Rise up, shepherd, and follow, provided over 2,000 portions, enough to feed every Now if you take good heed man living in a Salvation Army hostel in London to the angel's words, Come on and follow, follow, follow, follow, at the time. It was eventually distributed to the Rise up, shepherd, and follow! Rise up, shepherd, and follow! You'll forget your fl ocks Rise up, shepherd, and follow! recipients by Peek Frean’s staff and members of The and you'll forget your herds: Rise up, shepherd, and follow! Salvation Army. Rise up, shepherd, and follow! The giant pudding, which went on display at Leave your sheep and leave your lambs, Selfridges between 7 and 16 December, was on the Rise up, shepherd, and follow! Blue Peter TV programme on 7 December and fi nally You must leave your ewes and leave your rams, made it to St. Paul's Cathedral steps on 18 December, where at 1pm that day, the Joystrings again gave a Rise up, shepherd, and follow. concert. This had to be the most well travelled and photographed Christmas pudding ever! Come on and follow, follow, follow, Another Christmas Spectacular followed when we presented a concert at Clapton Congress Hall, along Everybody you must follow with guest stars Jack Damanio, David Kosoff and Polly Elwes, and the children of Great Sampford Primary Rise up, shepherd, and follow! School. The proceeds of the Christmas concert were going to The Salvation Army Goodwill Services – a section of the Army which provided for the needs of people in the local community. We gave There's a star in the east on Christmas morn, Rise up, shepherd and follow! another concert at The Queen Elizabeth Hall on 23 December, when we were joined by the Wimbledon And it will lead to the place Girl Singers, the Cantate Domino Boys Choir from Aalst, a town 30 kilometres from Brussels, and the where the Saviour was born: Kindersingers, to present A Festival of Carols and Christmas Music.
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