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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 14, 2008 19:33:27 GMT -5
i have a envoys demo 8 songs recorded iin the bands parents living room. its more folky . its ok. would have been cool if they did a whole lp.
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Post by ryankatastrophe on Feb 15, 2008 21:56:53 GMT -5
I thought I heard some tracks from a comp called God in the Garage somewhere.
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 16, 2008 16:01:18 GMT -5
thats mike lucas's label that put that god in the garage lp. its got the click kids that are'nt more or less a novelty act, some beat mass from panama thats ok & another band thats cool
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Post by freakbeattrash on Feb 24, 2008 7:38:54 GMT -5
hey james
agent ugly played me the envoys - THE DOOR ..... and i had a sort off fit aswell ......ever since i've been trying to find it ,i can't find it at all , i did find a copy on ebay for a quid but a religious record shop braught itfor 5 p more , i was sad as they probably had no idea what a great song it is .....so just a word up if you ever see it again whilst out in brighton BUY it then i'll swap it for any number of spare 45's i have , yardbirds , the kinks or that spare copy off the gestures 45.
i found an ep by a group called the proclaimers (not the 2 ginger scot brothers) , but they sound like the freddie and the dreamers of the christian beat genre .....however the front cover picture is great!!!!
PAUL
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 12:31:20 GMT -5
here's an envoys newsletter i got a few years back EMBerbrook 5957
c/o Miss Jan Hitchcock
18 Westville Road
Thames Ditton, Surrey
September, 1965
Our dear friends,
At the time of writing this letter the group is just about to bgin work again after having a two week break from engagements, while several members have been away. We do hope that all of you have hd good holidays and are feeling refreshed and well equpiped for the Christian work which you do - which always seems more concentrated once the evenings are shorter.
When we last wrote to you we mentioned our decision to go "all out" for new equipment, and the way in which the Lord was supplying our needs in this respect. We have used our new equipment many times now, and are thrilled at the improvement which it makes to the overall sound - though we still have those ominous crackles from one old amp! Sometimes when we visit a club there is insufficient room to contain two groups; then either we plug into the equipment of the secular groupp, or we "combine forces", using the best of each group’s facilities.
On July 11th we visited the "Harvest Moon" Club at Guildford. then, after two weeks’ break due to holidays, we went to the "Star Club" at Croydon on Sunday, 8th August, and the "Stars and Garters" at Windsor on Saturday, 14th. On the 11th, 17th and 19th we joined our friends, The Pilgrims, in their temporary Christian Beat Club at Bromley, the "Mad Pad".
We have decided that in this letter we will tell you about one booking in greater detail, and we have selelcted the last one we had before our break, which was in a club at Worthing, Sussex.
During the week ending 28th August, the Rev. Brian Gilbert held a conference at "Greenhills", Worthing, for musical groups. Young people went there for instruction inpersonal work, the playing of various instruments, etc., and on Wednesday evening, 25th August, they managed to get us a 40-minute spot in the "Skoobidoo" Club. It was the most interesting and varied booking we have had in a club yet.
Imagine a low-ceilinged basement room, the shape of the semi-circular London tube tunnels, dark, smoked-filled, jostling with teenagers who are dancing, laughing, drinking coffee and chattering. The juke box is playing loudly - no, it’s a hand-operated record player - the juke box is out of action tonight! Suddenly there appears to be chaos; fellows and girls stand back as a mob of Envoys stagger dwon the steps under large pices of Vox equipment. The gear is erected halfway down the side of the room; the stage is about 4 inches high and 4 feet square - just big enought for Alec and his drums. The rest of the group set up , and tune up, round about.
There is a sense of anticipation; the club usually has groups at the weekend, but rarely mid-week. Time to begin at last. The club doesn’t provide facilities for groups who wish to have a prayer meeting, so the indivual members, and their six friends from Greenhills, prepare silently for the task ahead.
The words went over clearly - so clearly that the teenagers protested. Comments overheard:
"We don’t want this down here"..."That’s O.K. in a church"..."We’re not religious"..."Give over, will you - we don’t want to know!"
Sometime during the programme someone started the record player again full-blast...after we had sung "Door", the fuses were removed from the junction box by the door. Everyone talked at once, and we could feel the devil very present. While one of our friends went to arrange for the return of the fuses for just one more number, we prayed and chatted happily, knowing that the devil is already defeated - praying that evidence of this might be seen in the Skoobidoo".
We were granted one more number, and Geoff sang "He did it for You", which as many of you know, tells of the sufferings of Christ. It was like an explosion. The buzz of chatter ceased; it was just as if God had stepped in and completely taken over. We thanked them for their attention, switched off, and got lost in the crowd. The response was varied. Some said it was embarassing, other that it was out of place. Many others were eager to chat, including the blonde mod-girl who had caused all the bother - she took a tract giving Scripture verses as well.
A great thrill for us all that evening was the decision of Dominique, a young Frenchman who is studying in England for two years. He spoke with one of our friends, and really wanted to find the way back to God. He willingly went outside for a quiet chat, and there he gave his life t the Lord. Please pray for Dominique in his new-found Christian life; he had many queries and problems on that evening, so pray that he may go on with the Lord, and see everything clearly. Pray also for the Christians in Worthing who are looking for him.
By the way, we should be delighted to have young people come into clubs with us if they are prepared to work for the Lord. We never welcome onlookers, but if you would like to join us on any of the following bookings, or at any time, Please write to us at the above address. Our future dates:
Sunday, 26th Sept. "Harvest Moon", Guildford
Sunday 3rd Oct. "The Star", Croydon
Sunday 10th Oct. "Stars and Garters", Windsor
Saturday, 16th Oct. Egham Youth Centre
If none of these dates is suitable for you, please get in touch anywa, as we are hoping to be in clubs every weekend as far as possible.
When reporting on the publicity of the record in the last letter, we omitted to mention the wonderful publicity which "Challenge" has been giving us. We are grateful to our friend, the Editor, for his articles and photographs of the group, and we aplogise sincerely for the omission!
Many folk are asking aobut our next record...we are seeking an opening with a commercial company, and ask you to pray for God’s guidance in this.
One matter which we hate having to mention - the cost of producing almost 1,000 neweletters. We are, of course, thrilled at the number which are sent out, but with increased postage, the cost of paper and envelopes, plus the fact that we have no income form our bookings, we are finding it a lilttle difficult. We are obviously anxious that letters are not sent to folk who are not interested. At the same time we feel that perhaps those who would like t continue receiving our letters would not mind contributing 3/-, which will cover the cost of the next twelve issues. This is the reason for the tear-off strip at the end of this letter; perhaps you would be kind enough to return it to us so that we knw what to do next. We do thank those friends who have sent us gifts towards our equipment in the last few weeks.
To end on a personal note: Dave Winter engaged to Jenny Barrett of Leeds - no doubt you join with us in wishing them every blessing...We’re an old group now! Jan has attained 21, so Alec, 20 in October, is the only "minor" left...if you needa piano accordian, please contact us!
With Christian love and best wishes from us all,
Geoff, Gwil, Alec, Dave, Dave, Dave, Rosemary, Jan. Delete Reply Forward
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 12:37:18 GMT -5
here's some more ifo on the envoys- me = ed, dt -dave taylor geoff- geoff shern
Not sure how many it sold... at lwast 1000 copies...and it did get one radio play,... The cost then would be around 34 pence in todays money... re shows...I think our last show at the Royal Albert Hall?? (I think) was the largest..but I prefer the the ones in the non christian environment best.. cheers
ed nadorozny <nadorozny2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dave how many copies did "door " sell & what did it cost? you mentioned that geoff put his foot down on recording "door" in the studio. were there any shows that really stand out in mind ? blessings ed
DAVID TAYLOR <d.taylor13@btinternet.com> wrote:
Dear Ed, Nice to hear from you again.. I can't add too much to what has been written by the others.. excvept to say that "Door" was recorded at a recording studio in London called LBC (not sure what it stands for. This apparantly has been used by such groups as The Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds. They certainly did a good job sound wise for the single. Far better than the EP recorded at Pye, near Marble Arch, London. I hope you manage to release the Envoys record as I think I have lost my copies...boo hoo. Bye the way if you do manage to get there I am willing to pay for a copy. If you do please note that I have recently moved. My new address is:- 11 Thomas Middlecott Drive, Kirton, Lincolnshire PE20 1HU UK. cheers
ed nadorozny <nadorozny2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
hi dave I'm working on an article about the envoys for an italian magazine called "Misty lane" this is what i have for info. anything else from you would be of help. these are rough emails from various members of the envoys . i have to start somewhere. they have'nt been arranged yet . i had to put the cd on hold cause i'm short on funds but hopefully one day it will get released blessings ed Geoff- who did the envoys play with? Apart from big events like the Royal Albert Hall, we tended to play on our own. Mostly we encourged churches to convert their meeting places into temporary coffee shops and then get kids in off the streets for us to evangelise. Later we secured permission to visit secular venues - clubs, pubs, discos etc and gig there. We were very forthright with the crowds and were often jeered and booed at. I ended up developing a number of techniques to win them over - it was both fun and scary at times. what other groups do you remember? i gues there were groups like the pilgrims, peacemakers. did you ever play with a group called"the four kingsmen? they had 3 45s on herald records. Through our organisation MGO (now Kingsway) we met hundreds of groups. Our anuual conferences attracted over 300 musicians - including the bands you mention. Too many to list. so who ran evangelical records Archie Hogben - a retiring conservative evangelical - who was very brave - our music was very controversial in those days. The church as a whole was extremely anti. & how did the envoys end up recording "door /ain't nobody like... A lot of our 'fans' urged us to go for it. We knocked on record company doors persistently until Archie gave us a break. " on that label. or the pilgrim ep? geoff so what technique would you use to win a crowd over ? Sheer energy what was the scariest thing that happened at at show? We had a room full of scooter guys (mods) and bikers (rockers) who were spoiling for a fight. I told the band to watch me closely and do whatever I did. Half way through a song, I stopped mid sentence and began to point at the leader of the rockers. The band also stopped dead and joined in the pointing. Then we all started laughing at the guy. He looked totally embarrassed and slunk out of the room. The audience fell about with laughter and applauded us wildly. We had a great evening after that. personally the christian beat music is just as strong or stronger than secular beat groups. so what would you talk about at these annual mgo meetings? Everything to do with music and evangelism are there any songs you regretted not recording ? No so did the envoys break up due to more time being spent on mgo ? We realised our musical ability was very limited and better groups were emerging. Also as you say marriage and other interests were beginning to pull us away, so we all agreed that we'd run our course. i heard a couple of members were getting married , wold that have split the envoys up? was there ever thought of doing an lp No It's a long story - here's the short version. As the Envoys, we found ourselves unwittingly pioneering a new form of evangelism, but then began to discover several other bands doing the same thing. I used to work in London in a life insrance company and one day met Pete Meadows who worked for an advertising agency in the same building. He was a christian with another band, the Unfettered. Pete, his bass player, Dave and I became good friends and went on to form MGO - Musical Gospel Outreach as a means of networking and encouraging the use of contemporary music in evangelism. We launched a small magazine, Buzz to exchange news and information and everything grew from there. hi geoff why would the church be so anti ? i guess they were worried about "the devils music" so where did they envoys play? churches , prisons etc?i guess i should have read your email cause you answered it.were secular audieneces rally mean when you played? Dave Taylor -Geoff had a habit of titling his songs with just the first line of the lyrics as you can see or we would abbreviate them ie " Devil" or "Door" The Maranatha Quartet was Alec and Gwil Hitchcock, > Myself and a friend called David Sumpter who left > the band before we formed The Envoys One of the band just plucked the name out of the > Bible!...no other significance...I think we did do > Sleep Walk....so long ago!! > Don't laugh.... we were called "The Maranatha > Quartet" ! and we did do some shadows stuff also > Santo and Johnney etc.. > Once Geoff joined it was all change....instead of > hyms...we would do only original upbeat songs > usually writtten by Geoff. > cheers I was a member of a band playing only instrumental > music mainly pop tunes of the time and hymns (what a > combination). The band was simply that we all > attanded the same church at Morden Baptist. The > group consisted of Gwil, Alex, myself and another > member who eventually left to go to university. > We met Geof Shearn (who was a solo performer at that > time) during one evening at a church in South London > and a few weeks later he contacted us with the that > we could perform together singing original Christian > songs. That was when we formed the envoys. Shortly > after that Jan and Rosemary joined. > I had no part in setting up Buzz magazine. This was > purely an idea from Pete Meadows as far as I know. > The magazine was set up after Geoff and Pete set up > "Musical Gospel Outreach" (MGO) and Buzz was simply > the house magazine. Shaking off The Shackles" was just a medium paced song with a heavy beat. The sphinx pic:- Back Row L to R Alex Hitchcock (drums) David Taylor (Bass) Middle Row L to R Jan Hitchcock & Rosemary Sutton (Vocals) Front Row L to R Gwil Hitchcock (Lead Guitar) Geoff Shearn(Lead Singer and Rhythm Guitar) David Winter (evangelist) I never remembered ever playing with the chordials? The Record "DOOR" Was on the "Evangelical" record label and the number was EVA4455 The " Peacemakers" werefrom Hillenborough, Kent and were one of the early bands bases at Hilldenborough Hall. Their recordings were almost certainly recorded as you sayin one take!! You are free to phone back any time. However answers are as follows:- The Envoys were based in Morden, South London. "Love Like Jesus" guitar was Dave Penman, I think he was from "Unfettered" Photo taken at Weymouth, Dorset at a concert called "Soul Session" Also other songs we used to play are "Shaking off the Shackles of Sin" (The Unfettered signature tune, written by Geoff Shearn, "Choose Your Way" and we did a Beatles number "Nowhere Man" ( a very good rendition!!) Jan Green- Envoy days were great days: we did one whole year in secular clubs only, in the days when "purple heart" pills were just coming on the scene. I remember often sitting in what seemed a very alien atmosphere, cocooned in the love of the Lord. Yes there was much opposition at times, but the word of God got out there, so it was to be expected! Just found this email. Scariest place we played ........... Mmmm .......... We did secular clubs only for a whole year, mid-1965 to 1966. We took no church bookings during that time, as I remember, although we had lots of prayer backing (we sent regular prayer letters out).
Perhaps the scariest was at "The Two Eyes" club in Soho, London. It's the red light district if you don't know that, and a bit seedy. Most of the great groups had played there during the early '60s but by the time we got there it was perhaps past its peak. It was down in the basement, black as the ace of spades, with a grill going out to the pavement (sidewalk!) above. Not many people paid to come down and hear us, but quite a lot stopped up at the grill.
Many of the clubs we visited at that time were quite way-out. Our usual ploy was to take the half-hour when the featured band went off for refreshment. Sometimes we just plugged into their gear, other times used our own. I remember we felt very protected by God: sort of like being in a bubble of protection.
Gwil hitchcock -Thanks for your e-mail I still have the records we made as the Envoys. My copy of the Door,was actuaslly the Master disc and so does not have the proper label on it as you have on your scan. These were the only records that we made, Now that my son is an accomplished guitarist I feel that my performance in the 60's was rather poor! I may be able to dig up some old 'photo's with the help of Jan and Alec.I have had some contact with Dave Taylor recently,who was our bass guitarist. He has some old 'photos so I will ask him too. I think it was about 1962 that we started and we had a great time with many testimonies. There was one song we sang which was quite daring at that time. It was 'You're hanging just a heartbeat from Hell!' I remember that we practiced it and practiced it and then prayed over it for weeks before we finally felt that we should play it in a beat club one night. As we finished witha crescendo of a chord,a Rocker came up to us with tears streaming down his face to say that he had been in a motor cycle accident the previous week and his girlfriend who was riding pillion had been killed instantly. He realised that he needed the Lord and accepted Christ into his life right there and then. We were so encouraged and knew that we had to present the Gospel in no uncertain terms and not worry about the adverse comments from the older generation!
Pete meadows Ed, the ep for Pilgrim was the one done at Pye I believe. Geoff Shearn can confirm details and titles. The Envoys were a great live band. If I find the tape I will let you know. We recorded the Envoys' Door at a studio near the BBC but I can't remember the name. We did some other tracks that did not see the light of day with them at Pye near Oxford Street I think. But, yes, it was Dave Penman on the Envoys. geoff who did the envoys play with? Apart from big events like the Royal Albert Hall, we tended to play on our own. Mostly we encourged churches to convert their meeting places into temporary coffee shops and then get kids in off the streets for us to evangelise. Later we secured permission to visit secular venues - clubs, pubs, discos etc and gig there. We were very forthright with the crowds and were often jeered and booed at. I ended up developing a number of techniques to win them over - it was both fun and scary at times. what other groups do you remember? i gues there were groups like the pilgrims, peacemakers. did you ever play with a group called"the four kingsmen? they had 3 45s on herald records. Through our organisation MGO (now Kingsway) we met hundreds of groups. Our anuual conferences attracted over 300 musicians - including the bands you mention. Too many to list. so who ran evangelical records Archie Hogben - a retiring conservative evangelical - who was very brave - our music was very controversial in those days. The church as a whole was extremely anti. & how did the envoys end up recording "door /ain't nobody like... A lot of our 'fans' urged us to go for it. We knocked on record company doors persistently until Archie gave us a break. " on that label. or the pilgrim ep? geoff so what technique would you use to win a crowd over ? Sheer energy what was the scariest thing that happened at at show? We had a room full of scooter guys (mods) and bikers (rockers) who were spoiling for a fight. I told the band to watch me closely and do whatever I did. Half way through a song, I stopped mid sentence and began to point at the leader of the rockers. The band also stopped dead and joined in the pointing. Then we all started laughing at the guy. He looked totally embarrassed and slunk out of the room. The audience fell about with laughter and applauded us wildly. We had a great evening after that. personally the christian beat music is just as strong or stronger than secular beat groups. so what would you talk about at these annual mgo meetings? Everything to do with music and evangelism are there any songs you regretted not recording ? No so did the envoys break up due to more time being spent on mgo ? We realised our musical ability was very limited and better groups were emerging. Also as you say marriage and other interests were beginning to pull us away, so we all agreed that we'd run our course. i heard a couple of members were getting married , wold that have split the envoys up? was there ever thought of doing an lp No It's a long story - here's the short version. As the Envoys, we found ourselves unwittingly pioneering a new form of evangelism, but then began to discover several other bands doing the same thing. I used to work in London in a life insrance company and one day met Pete Meadows who worked for an advertising agency in the same building. He was a christian with another band, the Unfettered. Pete, his bass player, Dave and I became good friends and went on to form MGO - Musical Gospel Outreach as a means of networking and encouraging the use of contemporary music in evangelism. We launched a small magazine, Buzz to exchange news and information and everything grew from there. hi geoff why would the church be so anti ? i guess they were worried about "the devils music" so where did they envoys play? churches , prisons etc?i guess i should have read your email cause you answered it.were secular audieneces rally mean when you played? Dave taylor -Geoff had a habit of titling his songs with just the first line of the lyrics as you can see or we would abbreviate them ie " Devil" or "Door" The Maranatha Quartet was Alec and Gwil Hitchcock, > Myself and a friend called David Sumpter who left > the band before we formed The Envoys One of the band just plucked the name out of the > Bible!...no other significance...I think we did do > Sleep Walk....so long ago!! > Don't laugh.... we were called "The Maranatha > Quartet" ! and we did do some shadows stuff also > Santo and Johnney etc.. > Once Geoff joined it was all change....instead of > hyms...we would do only original upbeat songs > usually writtten by Geoff. > cheers I was a member of a band playing only instrumental > music mainly pop tunes of the time and hymns (what a > combination). The band was simply that we all > attanded the same church at Morden Baptist. The > group consisted of Gwil, Alex, myself and another > member who eventually left to go to university. > We met Geof Shearn (who was a solo performer at that > time) during one evening at a church in South London > and a few weeks later he contacted us with the that > we could perform together singing original Christian > songs. That was when we formed the envoys. Shortly > after that Jan and Rosemary joined. > I had no part in setting up Buzz magazine. This was > purely an idea from Pete Meadows as far as I know. > The magazine was set up after Geoff and Pete set up > "Musical Gospel Outreach" (MGO) and Buzz was simply > the house magazine. Shaking off The Shackles" was just a medium paced song with a heavy beat. The sphinx pic:- Back Row L to R Alex Hitchcock (drums) David Taylor (Bass) Middle Row L to R Jan Hitchcock & Rosemary Sutton (Vocals) Front Row L to R Gwil Hitchcock (Lead Guitar) Geoff Shearn(Lead Singer and Rhythm Guitar) David Winter (evangelist) I never remembered ever playing with the chordials? The Record "DOOR" Was on the "Evangelical" record label and the number was EVA4455 The " Peacemakers" werefrom Hillenborough, Kent and were one of the early bands bases at Hilldenborough Hall. Their recordings were almost certainly recorded as you sayin one take!! You are free to phone back any time. However answers are as follows:- The Envoys were based in Morden, South London. "Love Like Jesus" guitar was Dave Penman, I think he was from "Unfettered" Photo taken at Weymouth, Dorset at a concert called "Soul Session" Also other songs we used to play are "Shaking off the Shackles of Sin" (The Unfettered signature tune, written by Geoff Shearn, "Choose Your Way" and we did a Beatles number "Nowhere Man" ( a very good rendition!!) Jan Green- Envoy days were great days: we did one whole year in secular clubs only, in the days when "purple heart" pills were just coming on the scene. I remember often sitting in what seemed a very alien atmosphere, cocooned in the love of the Lord. Yes there was much opposition at times, but the word of God got out there, so it was to be expected! Just found this email. Scariest place we played ........... Mmmm .......... We did secular clubs only for a whole year, mid-1965 to 1966. We took no church bookings during that time, as I remember, although we had lots of prayer backing (we sent regular prayer letters out).
Perhaps the scariest was at "The Two Eyes" club in Soho, London. It's the red light district if you don't know that, and a bit seedy. Most of the great groups had played there during the early '60s but by the time we got there it was perhaps past its peak. It was down in the basement, black as the ace of spades, with a grill going out to the pavement (sidewalk!) above. Not many people paid to come down and hear us, but quite a lot stopped up at the grill.
Many of the clubs we visited at that time were quite way-out. Our usual ploy was to take the half-hour when the featured band went off for refreshment. Sometimes we just plugged into their gear, other times used our own. I remember we felt very protected by God: sort of like being in a bubble of protection.
Gwil hitchcock -Thanks for your e-mail I still have the records we made as the Envoys. My copy of the Door,was actuaslly the Master disc and so does not have the proper label on it as you have on your scan. These were the only records that we made, Now that my son is an accomplished guitarist I feel that my performance in the 60's was rather poor! I may be able to dig up some old 'photo's with the help of Jan and Alec.I have had some contact with Dave Taylor recently,who was our bass guitarist. He has some old 'photos so I will ask him too. I think it was about 1962 that we started and we had a great time with many testimonies. There was one song we sang which was quite daring at that time. It was 'You're hanging just a heartbeat from Hell!' I remember that we practiced it and practiced it and then prayed over it for weeks before we finally felt that we should play it in a beat club one night. As we finished witha crescendo of a chord,a Rocker came up to us with tears streaming down his face to say that he had been in a motor cycle accident the previous week and his girlfriend who was riding pillion had been killed instantly. He realised that he needed the Lord and accepted Christ into his life right there and then. We were so encouraged and knew that we had to present the Gospel in no uncertain terms and not worry about the adverse comments from the older generation!
Pete meadows Ed, the ep for Pilgrim was the one done at Pye I believe. Geoff Shearn can confirm details and titles. The Envoys were a great live band. If I find the tape I will let you know. We recorded the Envoys' Door at a studio near the BBC but I can't remember the name. We did some other tracks that did not see the light of day with them at Pye near Oxford Street I think. But, yes, it was Dave Penman on the Envoys.
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 12:40:51 GMT -5
can the moderator delete some of this post as it is the same stuff ?
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 12:46:09 GMT -5
here's somemore from gwil hitchcock the guitar playe Dear Ed, Thanks for your e-mail I still have the records we made as the Envoys. My copy of the Door,was actuaslly the Master disc and so does not have the proper label on it as you have on your scan. These were the only records that we made, Now that my son is an accomplished guitarist I feel that my performance in the 60's was rather poor! I may be able to dig up some old 'photo's with the help of Jan and Alec.I have had some contact with Dave Taylor recently,who was our bass guitarist. He has some old 'photos so I will ask him too. I think it was about 1962 that we started and we had a great time with many testimonies. There was one song we sang which was quite daring at that time. It was 'You're hanging just a heartbeat from Hell!' I remember that we practiced it and practiced it and then prayed over it for weeks before we finally felt that we should play it in a beat club one night. As we finished witha crescendo of a chord,a Rocker came up to us with tears streaming down his face to say that he had been in a motor cycle accident the previous week and his girlfriend who was riding pillion had been killed instantly. He realised that he needed the Lord and accepted Christ into his life right there and then. We were so encouraged and knew that we had to present the Gospel in no uncertain terms and not worry about the adverse comments from the older generation! I will ask the others if they remember any other stories. Where are you? If I can send you some pictures by e-mail if I can find some from the others I will have to get my daughter or daughter in law to scan them for me as I havn't got a scanner at the moment. I may have some other Envoys songs on my old Dad's reel t- reel tape recorder I will dig them out. Look forward to hearing from you more about all this, Every blessing, Gwil.
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 12:59:51 GMT -5
i'll have to get all the envoys together on a cd here. maybe later today. <img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc276/nadorozny2001/P8110254.jpg ">
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Post by theplague on Feb 25, 2008 15:44:49 GMT -5
would love to hear this Envoys material. thanks for posting the lengthy info on this band. Ed, if your signed in you should be able to modify your own post,using the `modify` button on the top right of the post. here is the image you posted:
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Post by theplague on Feb 25, 2008 15:48:17 GMT -5
i picked up a couple of Joy String 45s yesterday one of which has the song Now I Know which is decent.
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 15:49:51 GMT -5
generacion de jesus heres some contact info for this band juan valenzuela po box 14425 san antonio , tx 78214 (210)-226-3306 he put the first three lps out on cd to contact the band- generacion de jesus produccciones monterrey, n.l, mexico c. p 64000 aparadto postal 1421 phone number (8)-379-1691 email gdjesus@usa.net
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 17:23:37 GMT -5
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Post by nadorozny2001 on Feb 25, 2008 17:24:24 GMT -5
i have a photo of the envoys "door " poster that i will post later tonight.
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Post by plague on Feb 25, 2008 17:31:36 GMT -5
here's somemore from gwil hitchcock the guitar playe Dear Ed, Thanks for your e-mail I still have the records we made as the Envoys. My copy of the Door,was actuaslly the Master disc and so does not have the proper label on it as you have on your scan. These were the only records that we made, Now that my son is an accomplished guitarist I feel that my performance in the 60's was rather poor! I may be able to dig up some old 'photo's with the help of Jan and Alec.I have had some contact with Dave Taylor recently,who was our bass guitarist. He has some old 'photos so I will ask him too. I think it was about 1962 that we started and we had a great time with many testimonies. There was one song we sang which was quite daring at that time. It was 'You're hanging just a heartbeat from Hell!' I remember that we practiced it and practiced it and then prayed over it for weeks before we finally felt that we should play it in a beat club one night. As we finished witha crescendo of a chord,a Rocker came up to us with tears streaming down his face to say that he had been in a motor cycle accident the previous week and his girlfriend who was riding pillion had been killed instantly. He realised that he needed the Lord and accepted Christ into his life right there and then. We were so encouraged and knew that we had to present the Gospel in no uncertain terms and not worry about the adverse comments from the older generation! I will ask the others if they remember any other stories. Where are you? If I can send you some pictures by e-mail if I can find some from the others I will have to get my daughter or daughter in law to scan them for me as I havn't got a scanner at the moment. I may have some other Envoys songs on my old Dad's reel t- reel tape recorder I will dig them out. Look forward to hearing from you more about all this, Every blessing, Gwil. Thanks for posting this email Ed, gut wrenching stuff!
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