Well, now I have done it.
I mentioned in December that I had heard a song on WSIE sung by Charles Glenn, the former St. Louis Blues hockey national anthem singer–although to be honest, I kind of missed the Charles Glenn era, attending the majority of my games when Edward Curtis, the previous national anthem singer, held the office.
I thought I would buy the album it was on if I could find it, and a couple of Internet searches could not identify the source. I suppose I could have reached out to WSIE, but, c’mon, man, it was a passing fancy.
But sometime between the original post in December and an allusion to the song in a January post, the name of the album appeared on the Soundcloud post. Or maybe it was always there and I just didn’t see it. Regardless, I visited Soundcloud to hear the song, and in another round of searching, I found a copy of it available.
Which arrived today.
Nominally, it’s Larry Barker’s, the pianist’s, album with Charles Glenn providing the vocals on a number of tracks. It’s fourteen songs:
- “The Character of God”
- “John 4:24”
- “Octavius”
- “All Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name”
- “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”
- “The Very Thought Of You”
- “Deep and Wide”
- “O Lord, Draw Near”
- “Lord, I Give My Praise To You”
- “Ray of Hope”
- “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”
- “My Attorney Bernie”
- “On the Street Where You Live”
- “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
So it’s got a couple of jazz standards, a couple of jazz piano numbers, but it’s mostly hymns, albeit jazzy hymns.
I’ve already listened to it and have passed it onto my beautiful wife because I think she’ll enjoy it.
And I’ve already taken a moment to taunt the Internet that I own this rather collectible bit which I bought from a bookstore in Michigan, apparently, that did not know what it had.
