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1902 sheet music by Blenkhorn and Entwisle in a Pentecostal Hymn Book. Keep on the Sunny Side, also known as Keep on the Sunny Side of Life, is a popular American song originally written in 1899 by Ada Blenkhorn (1858–1927) with music by J. Howard Entwisle (1866–1903). The song was popularized in a 1928 recording by the Carter Family.
She was impressed that the album was recorded around an actual campfire in Ireland saying "Rend Collective pushed artistic boundaries through their acoustic live recording." [1] She reports that some of the songs have a very upbeat Irish foot stomping feel, while others still retain the Irish feel but slow down to a meditative tempo. [1]
Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
The song has been covered by a number of artists and bands including: Irish worship band, Rend Collective, in their 2013 album Campfire. [17] Contemporary Christian music group The Katinas in their 2014 album Sunday Set, [18] accompanied by a music video [19] The vocal quintet Veritas in their self-titled 2014 album Veritas [20]
Sing to Jesus" is a Christian hymn by William Chatterton Dix. Dix wrote the hymn as a Eucharistic hymn for Ascension Sunday. [1] It is also commonly sung as an Easter hymn. It was originally titled "Redemption through the Precious Blood" and is based on Revelation 5:9. [1] Dix felt Church of England hymnals lacked sufficient Eucharistic hymns. [2]
Alleluia! Alleluia! Sing a New Song to the Lord; Alleluia! Sing to Jesus; Alma Redemptoris Mater; Angels We Have Heard on High; Anima Christi (Soul of my Saviour) Asperges me; As a Deer; As I Kneel Before You (also known as Maria Parkinson's Ave Maria) At That First Eucharist; At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing; At the Name of Jesus; Attende ...
Christian Songs is a record chart compiled and published by Billboard that measures the top-performing contemporary Christian music songs in the United States. The data was compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on the weekly audience impressions of each song played on contemporary Christian radio stations until the end of November 2013. [1]
The piece became a standard campfire song in Scouting and summer camps and enjoyed broader popularity during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In American politics , the song title gave rise to the phrase " sing Kumbaya ", denoting unrealistic, excessively optimistic attempts at compromise .