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CROSSOVER CHR/INSPIRATIONAL SONGS YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH ON A RELIGOUS STATION!

<< In George Harrison's early years after the breakup didn't he, when performing live, take Beatle's songs & turn them into religous versions? "Something in the way...God Moves" or "I wanna Hold God's Hand".>>

On his '74 tour, he did a version of "In My Life" that ended with, "In My Life...I love God more" (God replacing You). That's the only one I know about.
 
The family went to Chick-fil-A Tuesday, and the satellite [I'm guessing, I should have asked] was playing some Christian music.
Then I heard them stick Paul Davis' "Do Right" in there, for good measure.
 
hey guys.
i don't know if this has been mentioned yet but "home" by daughtry. that also just happens to be one of my favorite guilty pleasures at the moment.
but heer is a lyric.
i'm going home, to the place where i belong. where your love has always been enough for me...

and p.o.d has a lot of songs that could do that as well. p.o.d is a great band as well :). and "flood" by jars of clay has always been a favorite of mine as well.

i know this would not fit but what if they played "amen" from kid rock? rotfl.... just had to throw that one out there...

wonder if they could play "man in the mirror" from michael jackson and "three little birds" from bob marley? prob not the marley cut but i think man in the mirror could do well on a format like that.

and another one
live like you were dying by tim mcgraw. another guilty pleasure on mine.

i'll post more if i think of them :).
 
Not sure if this fits either but every time I used to hear it when it was in heavy rotation as a teen I thought about "inspiration-ness" (word? :D)...Silent Running by Mike & the Mechanics....maybe it was the talk of "believe in me, I'm with the high command. i think it was actually about war.

They could always get away with Bobby McFerren's "Don't Worry Be Happy".
I think I'll start another thread...songs where the titles SOUND inspirational but aren't! Coming Soon to "Off Air"!
 
i was going through my billbored collection of music and i hit the year 1999 and a song that came on was "kiss me" from six pence none the richer. the thing is the song actually came out in 97. now, i wonder if ccm stations played this or did just ac and pop play it? because i clearly remember pop and ac spinning it but never heard about it on christian radio... just thought i'd bring this up.
 
hey guys. i was listening to reach fm and i heard a band called the apoligetics. what they do is take main stream top 40 songs and turn them in to christian songs. they have done parities of "loose yourself" "cryptinite" and "last resourt" now i can''t remember the tittled of these songs. basically, the christian version of wierd al. i wonder how they would spin modern chr songs? that would be vary interesting. i know that was off topic but i wanted to know if any of you have heard them before? interesting stuff.
 
I am aware of them and have listened to some of their CD's. I guess technically they are protected under parodying the original work, however I do not know if that has ever been challenged or not at all though.
 
I question that that many people in our generation hold the "more poular than Jesus" comment against the Beatles 45 years later (and was that statement that inaccurate in 1964? Really?) and he did say "more popular" not "better". Aren't there a bazillion things that are "more popular than Jesus" today? Maybe some ultra fundamentalists mightstill hold that comment agaisnt Lennon but doubt much of anyone else.
 
I've been really digging "I Want To Know What Love Is"-Foreigner lately. I think that would absolutely should be on the list! :)
 
yes, that would work perfectly. considering the quire at the end. i'm surprised this one has not been mentioned until now.

i know rod stewart was not the original artist but how about have i told you lately by van morison? i prefer the rod stewart version though :). but it is a good song.
and sorry if that one was mentioned already...
what about one more day my diamond reo? that would work well in my oppinion.
 
not a fan of that unplugged version :(. i like the studeo version much better.

diamond rio is a country badn.
 
I'm a big Beatles fan, but none of their spiritual music could possibly be played on Christian radio. The whole purpose of "My Sweet Lord" was to get people to go from singing "Hallelujah" to "Hare Krishna". I love the warm-hearted spirituality of George Harrison's "Blow Away", however he sings about the "ying and the yang" which is part of the Hare Krishna belief. Otherwise the song is solid and very meaningful about building a relationship with God.

Much earlier in this thread someone mentioned John Lennon's "Imagine". This is the best stated, but most anti-Christian, in fact anti-religious hit song ever. It's a far-left secular fantasy covering all the bases...
"Imagine no countries" (for the open border crowd), "Imagine no religion too". The song is a belief in nothing... "Imagine there's no heaven...above us only sky". It foolishly assumes that without having any centering in something concretely positive from which to draw values, that everybody is going to act peacefully, respect eachother's space ... etc ... We have seen how this doesn't work. As we have moved away from the Judeo-Christian ethic and values that helped found this nation, we've lost some of our moral compass. It's particularly pronounced in urban areas. When I went to school, the district didn't have to spend gobs of money on security like metal detectors, extra security guards to wand people down as they worry about the next person who tries to slip a gun into the school... money that could be better used on education. Without something to build a moral compass around, many gravitate towards the bad. Notice how as we move away from Judeo-Christian values we need more laws (governmental intervention) to try to stop some activities that, with a firm foundation in Judeo-Christian values, wouldn't need new laws because it would be something that would not be considered "ok" to do.
 
Wow! 8 pages! We may have just enough to fire up a hip sounding Christian station...
Did anyone mention "People Get Ready" by the Impressions/Faces yet?

Good call on Foreigner...especially with the New Jersey Mass Choir plus Jennifer Holiday on backup.
 
There have been versions of People Get Ready on Christian albums done by Darrell Mansfield and Margaret Becker, perhaps others as well.

I mentioned DeGarmo and Key earlier. I forgot to mention they also did a version of Are You Ready.
 
johnbasalla said:
I'm a big Beatles fan, but none of their spiritual music could possibly be played on Christian radio. The whole purpose of "My Sweet Lord" was to get people to go from singing "Hallelujah" to "Hare Krishna". I love the warm-hearted spirituality of George Harrison's "Blow Away", however he sings about the "ying and the yang" which is part of the Hare Krishna belief. Otherwise the song is solid and very meaningful about building a relationship with God.

Much earlier in this thread someone mentioned John Lennon's "Imagine". This is the best stated, but most anti-Christian, in fact anti-religious hit song ever. It's a far-left secular fantasy covering all the bases...
"Imagine no countries" (for the open border crowd), "Imagine no religion too". The song is a belief in nothing... "Imagine there's no heaven...above us only sky". It foolishly assumes that without having any centering in something concretely positive from which to draw values, that everybody is going to act peacefully, respect eachother's space ... etc ... We have seen how this doesn't work. As we have moved away from the Judeo-Christian ethic and values that helped found this nation, we've lost some of our moral compass. It's particularly pronounced in urban areas. When I went to school, the district didn't have to spend gobs of money on security like metal detectors, extra security guards to wand people down as they worry about the next person who tries to slip a gun into the school... money that could be better used on education. Without something to build a moral compass around, many gravitate towards the bad. Notice how as we move away from Judeo-Christian values we need more laws (governmental intervention) to try to stop some activities that, with a firm foundation in Judeo-Christian values, wouldn't need new laws because it would be something that would not be considered "ok" to do.
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This has to be one of the best treatises I have ever read on "Imagine." The song also included the line "imagine, no possessions," yet Lennon owned a Rolls Royce which sold for, I believe, $650,000 after his death. "Imagine" (the song) is all about "peace and love," but yet Imagine (the album) also contained the song "How Do You Sleep?" which is a rather mean-spirited attack on Paul McCartney.

Lennon often railed against all the "-isms" in interviews, but he somehow never got around to saying what he proposed to fill in the void created by getting rid of all the other belief systems out there. Something must fill a vacuum!
 
how about cread's higher? don't know if that was mentioned or not. you could play a lot of cread on a format like this.
 
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