{"id":3949,"date":"2019-07-23T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2020-07-23T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:39:56","slug":"sending-a-child-to-do-a-grownup-job-on-the-glory-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/ag_blog\/sending-a-child-to-do-a-grownup-job-on-the-glory-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending a child to do a grownup job on The Glory Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Brother Ray Jones and Nita Faye 1950’s<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

They had me singing on the radio in Columbus Georgia at the age of 3.\u00a0 No adjustable microphone.\u00a0 I stood on chairs or sometimes boxes or crates stacked up in front of a tall boom microphone. The mic faced the disc jockey\/announcer\/sometimes station owner operating the controls on the other side of the glass.<\/p>\n

By the time I was 7 or 8, Daddy chose a new repertoire for me, deciding which songs would help him put across the message he was about to preach.\u00a0 He taught me to sing\u00a0 one of his favorites, a song with dramatic lyrics and a big buildup.\u00a0 From the start it didn’t feel like something I’d ask a little girl to sing, but I performed it for years because he asked me to.\u00a0 In this picture from the 1950s I’m singing “Then Jesus Came.”\u00a0 Daddy’s playing steel guitar over there beside me, every now and then saying “Yes Lord” the way people in our churches worshipped out loud.<\/p>\n

I didn’t grasp the story told in this song the way it could be until I heard George Beverly Shea sing it on one of Billy Graham’s early radio shows.\u00a0 Oh that’s <\/em>how it’s supposed to sound.\u00a0 I announced to Daddy I didn’t want to sing it anymore.<\/p>\n

A voice like this is what the song requires. This is Larry Wayne Morbitt singing at a Gaither Gospel TV show. Larry toured with Phantom of the Opera.\u00a0 He can hit those notes.<\/p>\n