Just watched the tab fire up the old carnival Wurlitzer and sing this. Man, what a trip. I love the smitten at last part. Monty Python couldn't have written this.

You mispelled prophet. It's profit!

Is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI3t5wNypzY

To me it was okay, must have to have been there to fully appreciate it.

It's not the music, it's the freak show. They might as well be singing the praises of Charles Manson. YouTube goes on to pick other classics. Some beautifully quaint, most with a tinge of weirdness. You have to appreciate the subtlety of a good mindfuck.

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Good one, bradley! I just spewed kawfee all over my monitor screen!! LOL. Have a great day. -edzachery

It sounds very pretty, but when you think about it, it's really strange.

Like the part where just the women sing in their sweetest, most angelic style of singing about "the wicked who fight against Zion will surely be smitten at last." .... the style just didn't fit the words they were singing. [Oh, is that the part you were talking about, Bradley?]

And I agree, it's like the heavenly hosts singing praises to Charles Manson. If we sing really prettily about him, will him make him a wonderful person?

Wow, it took two organists to play the music. I've never noticed that done that way before. Looked a little crowded.



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I notice that the men in the choir are older. Bald and grey hairs.

Why is it okay for the MoTab to knock off this little ditty at MM 108 when the poor saps in the congregations back home are required to dirge it out at MM 76?

Back in the day, we had metronome police in our ward, mostly in the form of a fanatical local music teacher. He'd time all of the hymns with his watch, and if they were even slightly off the MM marking in the hymnal, the chorister and organist would have to stand for a lecture. And, if we'd played this at tango tempo like the MoTab did in the link, we'd have been destined for hell for sure.

For the record, that's not a Wurlizter. It's a fine example of the the work of the great American classic organ builder, Aeolian Skinner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_Tabernacle_organ

Obviously not straight from the hymnal, this is somebody's arrangement for Organ Four Hands (and possibly four feet), and it modulates through at least three different keys. Nonetheless, it's pretty much a sappy piece of junk as far as artistic merit is concerned.

Oops, that clip was recorded in the Conference Center, not the Tabernacle. The organ was made by Shoenstein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenstein_Organ_at_the_Conference_Center

I bet the cheap bastards sweated blood signing the check for that.

You've got to spend money to make money.

One guy looked like Eric Idle. Did anyone else notice how many times the lovely young african american woman was focused and framed upon?