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Remember the Music

Legends of CCM | Remember the Music

November 17, 2025 | S1 E10 | 24:59

Legends of CCM | Remember the Music
The episode of "Remember the Music" features CCM legends Love Song and Evie Tornquist Karlsson, tracing their journey from drug charges and secular music to inspiring lives of faith and music. Love Song's transformation from a secular hippie group to a Christian music pioneer highlights the impact of the Jesus Movement, leading to a surge in Contemporary Christian Music. Evie's transition from popular recording artist to ministry alongside her husband exemplifies a brave choice guided by faith. These stories of redemption, perseverance, and musical evolution showcase the power of God's love and influence in the world of Christian music.
#Singer/Songwriter #Music #Musician #PersonalStory #JaciVelasquez #LoveSong #Evie

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Remember the Music | Legends of CCM | Remember the Music | November 17, 2025
  • >>i'd already served a
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  • Day in orange county jail on a drug charge. they didn't have
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  • Enough jail space to give you a long term so they'd give you 1
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  • Day then get you out so they could get the next guy in.
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: hello! my name is jaci velasquez and
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  • I'd like to welcome you to this episode of remember the music
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  • Featuring ccm legends love song and evie tornquist karlsson. the
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  • Jesus movement, back in 1971, there was larry norman, andrae'
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  • Crouch, and love song. that was it. black gospel and southern
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  • Gospel were around but no christian pop music yet. these
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  • Pioneers forged the way for the rest of us and led to what we
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  • Now call contemporary christian music. love song started out as
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  • A secular hippie group in costa mesa, california. the guys were
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  • Seeking god but trying to find him through lsd, drugs, eastern
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  • Religion and vegetarianism. they'd all been arrested
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  • Independently on drug charges at this time, and things kept
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  • Getting worse and worse. they had written a few songs already
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  • And heard about a small, new and unusual church called calvary
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  • Chapel. and as they experienced god's love firsthand and saw
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  • Ladies in their sunday finest sitting right next to barefoot
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  • Hippies that weren't looking at each other weird, life began to
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  • Turn around for love song. after being born again for a very
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  • Short time, they approached pastor chuck smith's secretary
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  • About them possibly playing at calvary chapel. and said,
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  • >>we've been coming here for three weeks and we're three
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  • Weeks old in the lord and we think our music would go over
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  • Well here. so she was gracious and she went and got pastor
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  • Chuck and he took us out to the sanctuary and interviewed us for
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  • About 20 minutes i think. years later he told me, he says when i
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  • Brought you guys out there there's no way you guys were
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  • Getting on my platform with long hair, hippy beards, drums,
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  • Guitars. but at the end of the interview he asded to hear us
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  • Play a song. so we went out and got our guitars and we played a
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  • Song called “welcome back” from the first love song album. and
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  • Even though it didn't directly relate lyrically to chuck, the
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  • Holy spirit fell and chuck's heart was really touched. so the
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  • Next thing we heard was can you guys play tonight? it's youth
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  • Night. and so we said what time? seven o'clock. we said, well,
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  • Fred, our guitar player, is in jail doing weekends on a drug
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  • Charge but he gets out at six so i think we can make it. so we
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  • Went and got fred's guitar and his violin and picked him up at
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  • The jail, came back and played that first wednesday night. and
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  • The rest was truly history. you know, the church grew from about
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  • 200 to 2,000 in a few months. >>but we were playing two or
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  • Three times a day every day. somebody would call and say i'm
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  • Running the youth group of the presbyterian church, can you
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  • Come over there? or you know, can you drive up to oakland and
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  • Play for the full gospel businessman's convention? and
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  • You know, we scared a lot of people in those days. we looked
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  • Pretty rowdy. but you know, after a couple of songs, the
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  • Holy spirit would build a bridge. and so we developed
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  • These songs over a while, you know, we didn't get to record
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  • The first album for a year and a half. >>in 1971 love song
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  • Recorded their first album and when people bought the album
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  • They got saved. people would give it to their friends and
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  • They'd all come to christ. the jesus movement was on the move.
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  • Love song played at expo '72, which was a huge christian
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  • Woodstock type gathering in dallas; 130,000 kids were in
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  • Attendance. and after that concert everybody started
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  • Calling them to come tour around the country. their song “love
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  • Song” even became a number one secular hit in the philippines.
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  • And they were flown there to do a festival. >>so everybody in
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  • The country knew the song and one of the missions
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  • Organizations, far east broadcasting, heard the song,
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  • Realized we were one of chuck's groups and said let's bring him
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  • Over here and we'll do kind of a festival kind of a thing. and so
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  • They did. they brought us over and we were as big as the
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  • Beatles. it was like being the beatles for two weeks. >>yeah.
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  • >>it was just so much fun, you know, because our airfare was
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  • Comped, we got on the plane, the stewardess comes up and she
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  • Says, oh, love song, tommy, chuck, jay, you know, i mean,
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  • There had been so much publicity. and then we got off
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  • The plane and i remember the headline was, it said love song
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  • Arrives looking much like the pows coming in from the vietnam
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  • War because we didn't know there was gonna be any media there.
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  • >>we'd been up for two days, man. >>as we look back on what
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  • Happened, you know, from march of 1970 to now, it was like a
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  • Whole new wave and a revolution at that, brought hundreds of
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  • Thousands of young people to christ and their families. you
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  • Know? it changed church life. it changed worship in the church.
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  • So it's just, you know, and a lot of those people who got
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  • Saved in the jesus movement are pastors now. you know? so a lot
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  • Of good fruit that remained and then, of course, you have to
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  • Grow up in christ. and you know, work out your own salvation with
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  • Fear and trembling. but that led to contemporary christian music.
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  • >>i wouldn't be, i'm convinced i wouldn't be sitting in this
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  • Chair if it hadn't been for andrae' crouch or love song,
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  • Which is one of the very first christian albums i ever bought
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  • In the 70s. and all these guys with long hair singing songs
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  • About jesus. i mean, you had to sort of transport yourself back
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  • To that time and imagine what it was like. and it was like
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  • History in the making. oh, my gosh. >>i always like to say
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  • That we were a bunch of hippies in the right place at the right
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  • Time. >>yep. >>you know, it wasn't anything planned.
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  • Something i always like to make sure people understand is that
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  • Nothing about what, first of all, calvary chapel wasn't where
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  • The jesus movement started, but it's where the media came
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  • >>right. >> to do their stories. and there was no guile there.
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  • Chuck smith didn't sit in the back room and think, well, how
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  • Can we reach the kids of today? hippie bands were just coming
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  • Along. there were so many bands forming at the same, that first
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  • Year, the way and mustard seed faith, >>yeah. >>just guys
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  • Started coming to the church and forming bands. and so it was a
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  • God thing, truly a god thing. and i think, tommy covered a
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  • Little bit earlier, i think the single thing that was most
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  • Impacting for the younger generation was that now they had
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  • A music that related to them musically they still fed their
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  • Spirit. they said oh, i tried to get into bev shea and we loved
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  • Bev shea's music, you know, or southern gospel, we appreciate
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  • That for what it is, but this was, all of a sudden, music of
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  • Their culture that they could relate to musically and still
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  • Fed them spiritually. and i think that was the big
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  • Contribution right there. [applause] >>so great being with
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  • Y'all here tonight to celebrate 40 years of ccm. can you believe
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  • It? of course, if you're going to celebrate 40 years of
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  • Anything, you're gonna have to go back to the very beginning.
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  • So not to make them feel old, let's welcome one of the very
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  • First christian albums i ever bought, love song! [applause]
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ lend an ear to a love song ♪
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  • ♪ ooh, a love song
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  • ♪ let it take you ♪
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  • ♪ let it start
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  • ♪ what can you hear in a love song ♪
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  • ♪ if you can feel it ♪
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  • ♪ then you're feeling from the heart ♪
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  • ♪ all the emotions, true feelings of life ♪
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  • ♪ is what music of love is about ♪
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  • ♪ if you are listening with peace in your heart ♪
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  • ♪ and no doubt
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  • ♪ so listen now to a love song ♪
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  • ♪ ooh, a love song ♪
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  • ♪ let it take you let it start ♪
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  • >>phil keaggy! [music]
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  • ♪ so listen now to a love song ♪
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  • ♪ if you can hear it ♪
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  • ♪ we will never be apart ♪
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  • [applause] [music]
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: evelyn tornquist was born in the u.s. to
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  • Norwegian immigrant parents. while visiting norway as a
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  • Teenager, she appeared on a t.v. talk show one evening. after
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  • That her career took flight and she was simply known as evie.
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  • Evie's first album in the u.s. was released by word records in
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  • '74. she quickly became the most popular christian recording
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  • Artist of the 70's and early 80's. evie has recorded over 20
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  • Albums. in ‘79 she married a young pastor from stockholm,
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  • Sweden. by ‘81 she shocked the music world by putting aside her
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  • Singing career to pursue ministry with her husband. evie
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  • Has won two doves and was inducted into the gma hall of
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  • Fame in 2005. she opened the door for other leading ladies of
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  • Ccm, including her friends, amy grant and sandi patty. >>and i'm
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  • Sitting here, honestly, with one of my heroes; one of my people
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  • That really influenced me. and i've said, i've told this so
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  • Many times, but i would get your albums and i would sit in front
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  • Of our big console stereo and i would get the, you know, the
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  • Insert out that had all the lyrics in and i would just sit
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  • There and i would not leave until i had memorized every
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  • Song. and you've just paved the way for us, not just musically,
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  • But how you've lived your life. and i just love that. so that's
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  • Just one example. [chuckles] it's been a long day, hasn't it?
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  • >>well, as a 7 year old i made a conscious decision that i wanted
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  • To always walk with christ. so i've been with him for over 50
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  • Years, 51, 52, but who's counting? [laughter] >>so where
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  • Were you born? >>born in new jersey. >>okay. >>mom and dad
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  • And brother are born in norway. >>okay. so you were fluent?
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  • >>yes, in norwegian. >>in norwegian, your family? >>yeah,
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  • That was really my first language. and then i married a
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  • Swede. so there's the swedish and the norwegian. >>okay,
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  • Right, but you record your first album when? >>first album was a
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  • Custom record when i was 14. >>wow! >>where? in new jersey?
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  • >>well, it was recorded in harrisburg, pennsylvania, all in
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  • 10 hours. >>oh! everything? >>kind of direct to disc,
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  • Basicically. >>oh, my goodness. >>that was fun. >>did you know
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  • The musicians or was it the kind of place where you went in?
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  • >>yeah, yes, they were friends from church. yeah. >>where did
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  • You find the songs? >>just whatever i was singing in youth
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  • Group, >> okay. >>you were 14? >>yeah. well, how old were you?
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  • >>yeah! >>older than that. >>how old? [laughter] >>i was older
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  • Than that. >>ah, and way back when i was still a teenager,
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  • Before the first word record for me, i was really thinking that
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  • Southern gospel is what i should do. and a gentleman by the name
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  • Of j.d. sumner >>yes. >>said to me in his deep bass voice,
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  • Darlin' you need to do your own thing. don't try to copy anybody
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  • Else and just do whatever god puts on your heart. so it kind
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  • Of just evolved. and, obviously, these ladies have done their own
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  • Thing. and i'm so glad you have. >>i remember when you, because i
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  • Saw you in concert a few times, and i remembered when you
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  • Started your family and then you quit touring. >>yeah. >>and, i
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  • Mean, that was a long time ago, but i remember going, what!
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  • [laughter] >>you can't do that! >>you stopped? >>just like, ah!
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  • [chuckles] >>oh. >>yeah. and you know what? i really, i get it. i
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  • Toured with children, and then toured leaving them at home, and
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  • As we say around our house there are a million ways to live your
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  • Life. but it's so funny, as somebody that loved your music,
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  • It was just a, >>oh, thanks. >>it was brave, >>yeah, it was.
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  • >>it was a brave. >>yeah, it was very brave, >>brave choice.
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  • >>was it a dilemma for you or you just? >>not in the least.
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  • >>not in the least. >>and i never looked back. and yet i've
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  • Always loved to sing. it's such a fun thing to do. it's glorious
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  • And i never really missed it in that season, and yet,
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  • Occasionally, now when we can do this again, like what we're here
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  • To do, it's like, yes! our dear friend, twila paris, is not able
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  • To be with us, but her song needs to be done tonight. and i
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  • Got the, >>you got it. >>the joy of doing “how beautiful the body
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  • Of christ”.
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ how beautiful ♪
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  • ♪ the hands that served ♪
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  • ♪ the wine and the bread ♪
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  • ♪ and the sons of the earth ♪
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  • ♪ how beautiful
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  • ♪ the feet that walked ♪
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  • ♪ the long dusty roads ♪
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  • ♪ and the hill to the cross ♪
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  • ♪ how beautiful
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  • ♪ how beautiful ♪
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  • ♪ oh, how beautiful
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  • ♪ is the body of christ ♪
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  • ♪ and as he laid down his life ♪
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  • ♪ we offer this sacrifice ♪
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  • ♪ that we will live
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  • ♪ just as he died ♪
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  • ♪ willing to pay the price ♪
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  • ♪ how beautiful
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  • ♪ the feet that bring ♪
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  • ♪ the sound of good news ♪
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  • ♪ and the love of a king ♪
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  • ♪ how beautiful ♪
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  • ♪ the hands that served ♪
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  • ♪ the wine and the bread ♪
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  • ♪ and the sons of the earth ♪
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  • ♪ how beautiful
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  • [music]
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  • Jaci velasquez: welcome back! evie was dear friends with
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  • Andrae' crouch. the day she was interviewed for this series was
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  • The same day andrae' crouch was laid to rest in the arms of
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  • Jesus in los angeles. andrae's musical legacy will never be
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  • Forgotten and neither will the wonderful man behind the music.
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  • >>evie was telling me, evie and i have toured europe some
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  • Together too, and, but andrae' he was so weak, bent over, and
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  • They got into a cab, evie and pella, her husband, and andrae'
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  • Got up front because evie's son was in the back with his mom,
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  • Dad. and andrae' slumped over, he was so sick, but evie told me
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  • That by the time they left where they were and got to the hotel
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  • Andrae' had led that person to the lord. and that guy did not
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  • Know who andrae' was. he just saw a weak person that was
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  • Trying to stay strong, trying to do what he did, but andrae' saw
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  • Something in him and within a matter of a short distance
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  • Andrae' led him to the lord and prayed with him in that cab.
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  • >>the closer we get to the lord, and that's for all of us,
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  • Whatever we do, the closer we get to him, the more his spirit
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  • Can flow through us and we can be exactly what he wants us to
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  • Be. we're never going to do it perfectly. absolutely not! and
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  • Thank god for grace. thank god for an opportunity to try over
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  • And start over. but as we, yeah, just lets do whatever he's put
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  • Before us with joy and with that sense of what a privilege it is
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  • To serve him. live for jesus that's what matters. honey tree
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  • Wrote a song for me years ago. >>yes. sing just a little bit.
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  • [a cappella] live for jesus that's what matters and when
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  • Other houses crumble mine is strong live for jesus that's
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  • What matters that you see the light in me and come along
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  • >>when all is said and done, it all comes down to jesus. it
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  • Comes down to him living in us and we living, us living for
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  • Him. and whether we're singing or whatever, we want to do that.
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  • And these ladies here do it so beautifully and i'm so honored
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  • To call them my sisters and be in this glorious sorority with
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  • Them. and encourage them for the next steps ahead. >>you always
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  • Have. >>because we, as much as we love to look back, we've
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  • Gotta look ahead. [affirmatives] >>thank you so much for joining
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  • Us. we hope you have been inspired and encouraged hearing
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  • About the journey of these incredible ccm legends, love
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  • Song and evie. please join us next time for more amazing
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  • Stories about your favorite legendary ccm artists. god bless
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  • You and we'll see you soon. [applause] >>andrae' crouch was
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  • One of the kind. those of us who worked closely with him knew him
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  • As a friend. he always had a warm smile and a great sense of
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  • Humor. his life and passing is living proof that through it all
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  • We can keep on singing because jesus really is the answer.
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  • Please welcome his longtime friend and fellow ccm icon,
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  • Evie. [applause] [music]
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  • ♪ how can i say thanks ♪
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  • ♪ for all the things, lord you've done for me ♪
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  • ♪ they were things so undeserved ♪
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  • ♪ yet you gave and gave ♪
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  • ♪ to prove your love for me ♪
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  • ♪ the voices of a million angels ♪
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  • ♪ could never express my gratitude ♪
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  • ♪ all that i am ♪
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  • ♪ and ever hope to be
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  • ♪ i owe it all to thee ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ to god be the glory ♪
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  • ♪ for all the things he has done ♪
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  • ♪ with his blood he has saved me ♪
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  • ♪ with his mighty power he has raised me ♪
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  • ♪ to god be all the glory ♪
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  • ♪ for the things he has done ♪
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  • >>sing with me every one of you!
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  • [music]
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  • ♪ with his blood he has saved me ♪
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  • ♪ with his power he has raised me ♪
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  • [music]
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