A Love Song

Description

A Love Song is an album by the American singer and songwriter John Ylvisaker, released on Avant Garde Records in 1968. The album was recorded by Alvin Campbell in New York April 4, 1968. Assisting in the production are New York musicians Dick Hegman, Jay Berliner, George Duvivier and Paul Palms. The album contains love songs from a variety of Biblical perspectives with music by John Ylvisaker.

Ylvisaker is backed by well known New York studio musicians like guitarist Jay Berliner and jazz keyboardist Dick Hyman. (In 1969 Dick Hyman’s recording of his jazz composition “The Minotaur”, featured on the album MOOG: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman, became the first Moog-based Billboard Top 40 hit single. The following year Light Records released Ralph Carmichael presents The Electric Symphony: The MOOG Synthesizer.)

A Love Song continues to present challenging music while drawing from Biblical material for its twelve songs, all united on varied aspects of the topic of love. «Noise Of Solemn Assemblies» and «Joseph» are classic examples of psychedelia dripping with acid organ, while «Palm Sunday» has a more dream-like quality, Amanda’s flute work softly poised above spacey atmospheric guitar harmonics. «A Matter Of Sobriety» pulls a Procol Harum maneuver with its classical cathedral organ and harpsichord accompaniment. Nods to the ‘60s sounds of Dave Brubeck and Ramsey Lewis can be found on «Pharoah’s Adopted Grandson Moses» and «The Camel Swallowers». Closes with a high-energy Johnny Rivers-styled rocker «The Man For Me». Several top-notch musicians were enlisted, including jazz keyboardist Dick Hyman and guitarist Jay Berliner. Such uniqueness in lyric and composition (not to mention the professional sound) is rare in the Christian community, so if you get the opportunity, by all means experience John’s music. It’s extraordinarily groovy! A Swedish 1994 re-issue collected the edgier tracks from both Cool Livin’ and A Love Song, packaging them with the cover/title from A Love Song. See also Praise The Lord In Many Voices, Part I, Happenings At The Gathering and Songs For Today. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

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LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “A Love Song” – 3:17
A2. “The Old And The New” – 4:18
A3. “Pharoah’s Adopted Grandson, Moses” – 3:01
A4. “She Didn’t Know” – 2:20
A5. “Noise Of Solemn Assemblies” – 2:30
A6. “The Prophecy” – 3:10

Side Two
B1. “Joseph” – 2:20
B2. “The Camel Swallowers” – 3:16
B3. “A Matter Of Sobriety” – 3:45
B4. “Desolation” – 2:15
B5. “Palm Sunday” – 4:03
B6. “The Man For Me” – 2:33

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CREDITS. Recorded in New York April 4, 1968, and engineered by Alvin Campbell. Music by John Ylvisaker except track B2, Traditional. Words: Traditional (tracks: A1-A2, A4-A6), Charles Akre (track A3), Hjelmar Gullberg (track B1), Stan Rowland (track B6).

Musicians: John Ylvisaker (Guitar, 12-string Guitar, Vocals), Amanda Ylvisaker (Flute, Organ), Dick Hyman (Celesta, Organ, Piano), Jay Berliner (Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar), George Duvivier (Double Bass), Paul Palmes (Percussion).