Description
Joy is like the Rain is an album by the American folk group Medical Mission Sisters, released in the US on Avant Garde Records in 1966. Also released in Canada, manufactured and distributed by Quality Records Limited. The album was engineered by William Blachly at RKO Sound Studios in New York. Sister Miriam Therese Winter, composer of the songs, is a graduate of the Catholic University School of Music, Washington, D.C. She is stationed in Philadelphia where she teaches music, directs the choir and is co-editor of the bi-monthly magazine, the Medical Missionary.
JOY IS LIKE THE RAIN – an album of original songs, songs of our day, in the folk-style of our times, songs for each and every man… in joy… in longing… in hunger and hope… in struggle… in searching… in pain and in peace. JOY IS LIKE THE RAIN is living testimony that GOD IS NOT DEAD but lives and moves among us.
The Medical Mission Sisters, Philadelphia, Pa. 19111, are a religious Society who care for the sick in the great need areas of the world – Africa, Asia and Latin America – as a work of Christian charity. [Note printed on the back of the LP sleeve]
This ground-breaking album released in 1966 quickly became a major resource in the religious education programs and Sunday worship service of a number of denominations throughout the United States and Canada and in many countries around the world. A number of songs remain popular today: “Joy is Like the Rain”, “Spirit of God”, “Long Road to Freedom”, “Zaccheus”, “How I Have Longed”, and “The Wedding Banquet”. George W. Cornell, Associated Press Religion Editor wrote at that time: “Medical Mission Sisters give their songs a tang of life loved and acutely reckoned. Their kind of catchy, spontaneous music is a part of the changing ways of Christian worship which throbs with the strummed guitar, percussion instruments and contemporary folk ballads of prose, story, and prayer.”
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Joy Is Like The Rain” – 2:25
A2. “Zaccheus” – 2:56
A3. “Speak To Me, Wind” – 2:56
A4. “Come Down, Lord” – 2:22
A5. “Spirit Of God” – 2:09
A6. “It’s A Long Road To Freedom” – 3:10
Side Two
B1. “Howl, My Soul” – 2:24
B2. “Pilgrim Song” – 2:26
B3. “How I Have Longed” – 3:01
B4. “Ten Lepers” – 2:31
B5. “God Gives His People Strength” – 2:22
B6. “The Wedding Banquet” – 2:30
Note: CD and sheet music available at: http://www.hartsem.edu/WLI/music.html
Cover Artwork, Canadian Edition released by Quality Records
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