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Remember the Music

Big Male Voices | Remember the Music

November 17, 2025 | S1 E6 | 24:59

Big Male Voices | Remember the Music
Big Male Voices chronicles the early days of Larnelle Harris, Michael English and Steve Green, to them exploding on the music scene becoming CCM legends.
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Remember the Music | Big Male Voices | Remember the Music | November 17, 2025
  • [music]
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  • >>here was my solo for a
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  • Year [sings a cappella] at the completion of the golden gate
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  • No, the angels did not celebrate >>that was it! [laughter] a
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  • Whole year! that was my solo. [clapping]
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: hello! my name is
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  • Jaci velasquez and i'd like to
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  • Welcome you to remember the music. this episode showcases
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  • Some of the biggest male voices in ccm history: larnelle harris,
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  • Michael english, and steve green. michael english started
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  • Out singing with the happy goodman's in the southern gospel
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  • World and became a fan favorite with the bill gaither trio. the
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  • Jump from southern gospel to ccm pop was a risk but the president
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  • Of warner alliance records, neal joseph, was determined to try.
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  • Neal brought in renowned record producer, brown bannister, to
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  • Produce michael's new sound. they did what turned out to be a
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  • Brilliant marketing idea. they decided to add the song “i bowed
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  • On my knees and cried holy” that folks could receive if they
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  • Filled out a survey that was in the album. they were blown away
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  • When almost 50,000 people sent in that survey, which was
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  • Unheard of. they thought maybe 6,000 would respond, but that
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  • Just shows how loyal michael's fan base was. michael english:
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  • You wanted me to do the ccm thing, of course, but that's
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  • What you were doing. neal joseph: well, i mean, i thought
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  • You had and still have one of the greatest instruments i've
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  • Ever heard in my life. and so, you know, even though your
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  • Background was more in the southern gospel side, i could
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  • See that transferring very easily into the pop side. and,
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  • Obviously, it worked and it worked well. and your
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  • Versatility to bring the heart of southern gospel with you to
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  • The pop music, i think, is really what made the magic.
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  • Brown bannister: well, how did i get involved, neal? >>i think we
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  • Actually had to talk you into it bit time. >>all questions come
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  • Back to you. >>as i recall, you were somewhat hesitant to make
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  • The leap but then once you got to know michael, got to really
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  • Hear him sing, >>it was a no-brainer, yeah. >>absolutely!
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  • >>but the idea of taking whoever from, like, really, strictly
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  • Southern gospel to, like, a pop, kind of blue-eyed soul kind of
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  • Thing, it was kind of an interesting thought. but i'm
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  • Sure norman said, oh, it's gonna be great! [laughter] >>great!
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  • Great! >>great! >>and not to mention the southern crowd,
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  • >>and the crowd, >>they, well, they don't like it too much
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  • Whenever, >>when you leave them for something else. >>yeah, i
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  • Mean, they feel abandoned and all this stuff. so today that
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  • Was a challenge for us. >>but didn't you think we were able to
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  • Keep that? >>oh, yeah. >>which was the amazing thing. i think
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  • Even with the pop sensibilities that were part of the records
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  • That you were doing, your southern gospel people loved it
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  • Because it still had the heart and you still had the same
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  • Feeling and still the same voice even though it was surrounded by
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  • Different kinds of instrumentation. >>yeah, even
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  • Though the first song was “solid as the rock”. >>yeah. [laughter]
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  • >>not southern gospel, >>right! but what was brilliant, and i'm
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  • Pretty sure this was your idea, but we put in that “i bowed on
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  • My knees”. >>um, hum, yeah, >>in there to just kind of go-we
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  • Haven't forgot about you-or, >>in terms of, like, telling
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  • Somebody like this, like, what to sing, i mean, it's more about
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  • Just trying to create a context they're comfortable in and just
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  • Letting them, letting them give you what god gave them. you
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  • Know? >>but you know what? you did have, there were several
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  • Times that you would say, sing this, so you did tell me, >>i
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  • Did? okay. >>you did. >>i did. >>and you know what? it was, it
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  • Was awful. no i'm kidding. [laughter] >>no! no, i was going
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  • To say it worked. you know? it worked. bill gaither: michael
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  • English was with us and was a great singer in the group and he
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  • Recorded “in christ alone” and the song became so big. i had
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  • The same meeting; sat down with him and said, michael, you know,
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  • It looks like the tail is wagging the dog here again. if
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  • You'd like to go. and the beautiful part about it is many
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  • Of them left but many of them have come back on special
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  • Occasions; that's the way the body of christ should work. we
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  • Ought to take a lot of pride in contributing to somebody's life
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  • So they can go out and multiply what we're doing; and have some
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  • Of these kids ever done that.
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ mary, did you know
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  • ♪ that your baby boy would one day walk on water ♪
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  • ♪ mary, did you know ♪
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  • ♪ that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters ♪
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  • ♪ did you know that your baby boy ♪
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  • ♪ has come to make you new ♪
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  • ♪ this child that you've delivered ♪
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  • ♪ would soon deliver you ♪
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ the blind will see the deaf will hear ♪
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  • ♪ the dead will live again ♪
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  • ♪ the lame will leap the dumb will speak ♪
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  • ♪ the praises of the lamb ♪
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  • ♪ mary, did you know ♪
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  • ♪ that your baby boy was lord of all creation ♪
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  • ♪ mary, did you know ♪
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  • ♪ your baby boy would one day rule the nations ♪
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  • ♪ did you know that your baby boy ♪
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  • ♪ was heaven's perfect lamb ♪
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  • ♪ and this sleeping child you're holding ♪
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  • ♪ is the great the great “i am” ♪
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  • [music]
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: welcome back! steve green was raised in
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  • South america, the son of missionary parents. he's been a
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  • Celebrated son of ccm for over 30 years. he started out in the
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  • Legendary vocal group truth and later joined bill gaither and
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  • Was even part of the original gaither vocal band before making
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  • His first solo recording at sparrow records with masterful
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  • Billy ray hearn at the helm. in addition to performing at billy
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  • Graham crusades and promise keepers events, steve has won 7
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  • Dove awards and had 18 #1 singles. steve green: so the
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  • Song chosen for me was “people need the lord”, one of the first
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  • Songs i recorded. and yeah, it's, you know, generally
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  • Understood in every believers heart people need jesus. and it
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  • Isn't just those who haven't heard of him that need him. it's
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  • All of us. we don't, you know, need him a lot at the beginning
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  • And then after that we're pretty good on our own and we can do
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  • Without him. truth be known, we all desperately need him every
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  • Moment of every day.
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ every day they pass me by ♪
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  • ♪ i can see it in their eyes ♪
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  • ♪ empty people filled with care ♪
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  • ♪ headed who knows where ♪
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  • ♪ on they go through private pain ♪
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  • ♪ living fear to fear ♪
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  • ♪ laughter hides their silent cries ♪
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  • ♪ only jesus hears
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ people need the lord
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  • ♪ at the end of broken dreams ♪
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  • ♪ he's the open door ♪
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  • ♪ people need the lord
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  • ♪ people need the lord ♪
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  • ♪ when will we realize ♪
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  • ♪ that we must give our lives ♪
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  • ♪ for people need the lord ♪
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: larnelle
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  • Harris, arguably one of the greatest male voices in ccm
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  • History. and the awards: 11 doves, 5 grammys, and 19 #1
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  • Singles. in his nearly 50 year career he's been inducted into
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  • The gma hall of fame 2 times. once as a solo artist and once
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  • As a member of the gaither vocal band. larnelle wasn't always a
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  • Singer. back in the day he was a drummer for one of legendary
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  • Thurlow spurs christian groups that went into high school
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  • Assemblies to meet the kids on their level with rock music, and
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  • Then later evangelize to them. renowned record executive, stan
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  • Moser, and iconic record producer of worship music, tom
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  • Brooks, both saw larnelle as teens. larnelle is as amazed at
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  • How god has orchestrated his life as we are of larnelle's
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  • Incredible talent. larnelle harris: it has just been
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  • Wonderful to watch what god has done with a little kid from
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  • Kentucky who was a boy soprano who didn't want to sing. >>oh,
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  • My gosh. he still sounds like an angel. larnelle harris, yeah,
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  • He, probably of everybody down there he's the one that i would
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  • Be, like, ah! bill gaither: this has been an interesting ride for
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  • Me because i've been around for a long time, and to see some of
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  • These, i call them kids, at my age they're all kids, but to see
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  • Some of these folks that spent time with us on the road. i see
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  • Larnelle harris down there-what an amazing singer and still is
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  • Quite an amazing singer! >>i remember one time i was in the
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  • Vocal band for a few years, and bill and i had the habit of
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  • Getting off the bus and trying to find someplace to eat,
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  • Usually a good fish place, you know. and so we were in detroit
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  • And fox theater downtown, downtown detroit. and bill said
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  • To me, he says, you know, bill gaither, he says, you know, you
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  • Probably need to stick pretty close to me up here in detroit.
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  • I said, bill, this is downtown detroit, [chuckles] you need to
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  • Stick close to me. [chuckles] >>and by the way most people
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  • That would watch this might not realize that larnelle harris was
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  • The drummer in first gear. he wasn't even the lead singer,
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  • Initially. >>so i'm 14 years old, high school assembly, same
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  • As you, and, you know, high school assembly. we think we're
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  • Walking in and the principle's gonna rattle off something, but
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  • We're walking into the gymnasium and this slamming rock band is
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  • Playing. and we're thinking, gosh, what are we walking into
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  • Here. and sure enough, first gear, that's the first time i'd
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  • Ever heard a gospel, a living, breathing gospel message. first
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  • Time! and it was just a [explosion sound] moment.
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  • [chuckles] >>but then growing up in the church with my mom, who
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  • Was a pentecostal holiness lady, and she was a prayer warrior,
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  • Wore that white dress with them big buttons down the front of
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  • It, you know, just shout and praise the lord, i had watched
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  • Her pray my dad into the kingdom. so i had a little bit
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  • Of an advantage point, i believe. and dad was anything
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  • But a christian. and i would listen to her pray for him late
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  • At night, sometimes he'd be knocking on the door and she
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  • Wouldn't open the door, but she'd be praying for him. and
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  • Even as a little kid, i knew that what she was saying, that
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  • He didn't have a chance. and pretty soon i watched him come
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  • To the lord. now when i saw my dad come to lord, it started to
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  • Make sense to me that there was a god somewhere and that he was,
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  • That he was indeed the rewarder of all who would diligently seek
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  • A pant after him. and he has something for all of us to do.
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  • But just to stand in amazement at what god can do, how he can
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  • Work, how he can take a life and mold it and shape it, and all i
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  • Had to do was to put myself in the place where god could do his
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  • Work in my heart and my life. and it's been wonderful to watch
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  • That, it's been amazing because a lot of these places i couldn't
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  • Have got gotten by myself. and yet the most important place has
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  • Been that time that i spend with him, growing with him, serving
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  • In a good church, learning how to be a good husband to my wife,
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  • Learning how to be a grandfather, still being a
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  • Father. so it's just amazing to watch how god puts a life
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  • Together and how he uses it and all of us here and, whether
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  • We're in music or no matter what we're in, stand amazed at what
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  • God, of how god is. those words are not just words anymore, but
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  • You begin to understand the power of god and what he can do.
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ amen!
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  • >>you try it one time, sing it!
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ amen
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  • ♪ amen amen amen ♪
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  • ♪ see him in the garden ♪
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  • ♪ praying to his father ♪
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  • ♪ in deepest sorrow ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ sorrow
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  • ♪ led before pilot ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ then they crucified him ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ but he rose on easter morning ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ hallelujah
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ so we can sing glory, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ yes, he died
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ but he lives forevermore ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ [amen, amen]
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  • ♪ we sing glory, hallelujah ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ we're singing amen ♪
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  • ♪ [amen]
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  • ♪ ‘cause he lives forevermore ♪
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  • ♪ amen, amen, amen
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  • [applause]
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: welcome
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  • Back! larnelle harris has had many life-changing moments in
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  • His celebrated career. he was the first christian artist to
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  • Perform inside the kremlin after the fall of the soviet union.
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  • And he also sang at the white house for president george h.
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  • Bush and first lady barbara bush. not bad for a shy kid from
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  • A small town in kentucky! larnelle harris: in 1991, just
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  • After the coup in the former soviet union, i was there; had
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  • The chance to sing in the kremlin. international bible
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  • Society had given us almost 4 million bibles translated into
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  • The various dialects, and about 200 of us passed them out to, i
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  • Mean, if it stood upright, we shoved a bible in its hand. i
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  • Watched that with great amazement, because see i've got
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  • 15 bibles sitting on the shelf at home, some of them gathering
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  • Dust. and i would watch as the people would take the bible and
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  • Hold it and caress it as though it had just become their most
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  • Prized possession. you cannot see that without it making a
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  • Change in your heart, in your life. i remember singing in one
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  • Of the churches just after communism fell, just after the
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  • Kgb fell, and there was an old guy walking up the, walking up
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  • The aisle, none of us knew what he was going to do, what he was
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  • Going to say. he was russian. and when he got to me, he put
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  • His arm around my neck and he said thank you for coming, thank
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  • You for coming, thank you for coming. i mean, i don't think
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  • You can experience a moment like that and not understand that god
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  • Is real, that he crosses all boundaries, musical, language
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  • Barriers, distance, it doesn't matter. you go to a place to be
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  • A blessing and you end up being blessed out of your socks. i
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  • Believe that as i have done my best to avail myself to my
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  • Father, that he continually is working, and he's opening up new
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  • Stuff, not to sing, but new ways of growth in him, so that when
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  • The words come out of my mouth they have weight. and the weight
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  • Of the holy spirit, the weight of a life lived with someone who
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  • Brought me through that, who took me through that dark time,
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  • Who, not just singing that there's light at the end of the
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  • Tunnel; i've seen it and i've had it and i've experienced it.
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  • Sandi and i will do “i've just seen jesus” and we've done it
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  • Over and over and over again. and i'm thrilled that people
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  • Still love hearing it. and yet, as i mentioned before, there are
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  • Lyrics in it that can just be sung. we can just sing it and,
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  • You know, go about our merry way. but because of some
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  • Experiences and because we've seen the love of of christ
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  • Continue in vessels that are so undone and still being worked
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  • On, what a joy to share that again. because that is the
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  • Message that i believe the world needs to hear: god's
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  • Long-suffering, he loves you, he never stops loving you. there's
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  • Nothing, absolutely nothing you can do to make him love you any
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  • More, there's nothing you can do to make him love you any less.
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  • He is not dead. he is indeed alive. i've seen him. how?
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  • Because he's in my heart. and i can't think of any greater joy
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  • Than to be able to handle that kind of nugget from the lord.
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  • Jaci velasquez: thank you so much for joining us. we hope you
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  • Have been blessed and uplifted listening to the hearts of 3 of
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  • The greatest singers in the history of ccm. larnelle harris
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  • And michael english and steve green, they truly are some of
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  • Our biggest and best male vocalists in christian music.
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  • Please join us next time for more amazing stories about your
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  • Favorite legendary ccm artists. god bless you and we'll see you
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  • Soon.
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ it was his voice she first heard ♪
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  • ♪ those kind, gentle words ♪
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  • ♪ asking what was her reason for tears ♪
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  • ♪ and i sobbed in despair ♪
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  • ♪ my lord is not there
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  • ♪ he said child, it is i, i am here ♪
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  • ♪ i've just seen jesus
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  • ♪ i tell you he's alive ♪
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  • ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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  • ♪ our gracious lord, alive ♪
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  • ♪ and i knew yes, i knew ♪
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  • ♪ he really, he's saw me too ♪
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  • ♪ he really saw me too ♪
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  • ♪ but at once it was as if till now ♪
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  • ♪ i never lived
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  • ♪ all that i'd done before ♪
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  • ♪ won't matter anymore ♪
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  • ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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  • ♪ and i've just seen jesus ♪
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  • ♪ and all i've ever done before ♪
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  • ♪ won't matter anymore ♪
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  • ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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  • ♪ and i'll never be the same again ♪
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  • ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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  • [applause]
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