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[Jay Weigel]

Since both my parents grew up with all those hymns and we kids knew a lot
of them (thanks to the aforementioned John Charles Thomas radio program),
they were standard fare for singing in the car on long road trips. By the
time I was in my teens we were heading for 4-part harmony as one of my
brothers developed into a passable tenor, my dad was a bass, and I sang
alto. The melody line was left to mom and the brother whose voice hadn't
yet changed. (He later turned into a tenor and the other brother slid down
to baritone.)

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> I remember an episode of "Colombo" where a sea captain (the murderer that
> Lt. Colombo was doing his usual number on) was  humming "Lower Lights" and
> my mother kicked in with the lyrics.
>
> She might have been a militant agnostic but she knew her old hymns (and
> the Bible, for that matter) better than most people.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>
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