''First Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers'' is a 2004 concert film and documentary that looks back into the Jesus Music of the 1970s. In 1997, a group of Jesus Music pioneers gathered in southern California for three days of music and fellowship. The event was both recorded and filmed, and was released in a 2-CD/2-DVD set simply titled ''First Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers''. It was compiled and edited by the spouses of two of the artists who appear in the documentary: Dan Collins (husband of Jamie Owens-Collins) and Steve Greisen (husband of

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)) produced the project. The CD contains each of the 31 songs that were performed during the gathering, and the DVDs shows the live performances of the songs, interviews with the individual performers and groups, interviews with others who were involved in the roots of Jesus Music, and rare pictures and footage of the artists from the 1970s. Other artists who were interviewed for the documentary include pastor Chuck Smith, Pat Boone,

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Performances

Disc 1 # "Welcome Back" ( Love Song) # "Two Hands" (Love Song) # "Happy Road" ( Barry McGuire) # "Seeds of Love" (Barry McGuire) # "The Victor" ( Jamie Owens-Collins) # "Seasons of the Soul" (Jamie Owens-Collins) # "

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) # "Which Way the Wind Blows" (2nd Chapter of Acts) # "Let's Have a Good Time" ( Terry Clark) # "Jesus Mighty Fortress" (Terry Clark) # "Sometimes Alleluia" ( Chuck Girard) # "My Redeemer" (

Annie Herring Annie Herring (born Annie Ward September 22, 1945) is one of the pioneers of the Jesus music genre, later to be called Contemporary Christian music. She was a member of the trio 2nd Chapter of Acts, for which she wrote most of the songs and sang ...

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Keith Green Keith Gordon Green (October 21, 1953 – July 28, 1982) was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter in the contemporary Christian music genre, who was originally from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. His most notable songs are " There ...

tribute) # "O Lord, You're Beautiful Medley" (Keith Green tribute) # "Born Again" (Keith Green tribute) Disc 2 # "King of Hearts" ( Randy Stonehill) # "Abandon Your Heart" (Randy Stonehill) # "Million Dollar Feeling" ( Darrell Mansfield) # "Stand by Me" (Darrell Mansfield) # "All Day Song" (John Fischer) # "Jesus Loves Even Me" (John Fischer) # "To the King" ( Matthew Ward) # "Didn't He" (

Randy Matthews Randy Matthews (born 1950) is an American Christian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pioneer of Jesus music. He was born into a family with at least five ordained ministers, including his father, Monty, a founding member of the Jordanaires. Wh ...

) # "Ti Chapé" (Randy Matthews) # "Abide" (

Paul Clark Paul Clark may refer to: * Paul Clark (composer) (born 1968), British composer * Paul Clark (designer) (born 1940), British designer * Paul Clark (educator) (born 1954), American labor historian and educator * Paul Clark (keyboardist) (born 1962), ...

) # "Where Did I Fall Down?" (Paul Clark) # "Clean Before My Lord" (

Nancy Honeytree Nancy Honeytree (born April 11, 1952) is an American Christian musician and one of the leaders in what was known as Jesus music. Background Born Nancy Henigbaum ("Honeytree" being a translation of her family's German name) was born into a fa ...

) # "Pioneer" (Nancy Honeytree) # "I Don't Know Why" (Jesus Loved Me)" ( Andraé Crouch) # "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" (Andraé Crouch) # "Bless His Holy Name" (Andraé Crouch)

Personnel

: Performer * Terry Clark: Performer * Dan Collins: Producer, Event Coordinator * Jamie Owens-Collins: Performer * Tommy Coomes: Performer (Love Song) * Andrae Crouch: Performer * John Fischer: Performer * Chuck Girard: Performer, Performer (Love Song) * Melody Green-Sievreit: Vicarious Performer *

: Extra Backup Vocals, Performer (2nd Chapter of Acts) * Steve Greisen: Video Producer *

: Performer, Performer (2nd Chapter of Acts) *

: Performer * Darrell Mansfield: Performer *

: Performer * Barry McGuire: Performer * Randy Stonehill: Performer * Jay Truax: Performer (Love Song) * Bob Wall: Performer (Love Song) * Matthew Ward: Backup Vocals, Performer, Performer (2nd Chapter of Acts)

Awards

* 1998 International Communicator Award * 1999 Telly Award

Notes

References

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