Sandi Yonikus: Building the Earth

Liturgical Press  11468 (1968)

This “pre-NOM” album (which means we’ve had one and a half liturgical upheavals since then) is, despite its pretentious title, a mixture of a children’s’ album and early Catholic folk.  Or maybe the pretentious title is reasonable: children are the future, something that the dropping birth rate of the time tended to lose sight of.  In any case, it’s a reasonable effort in both respects.  It’s also a composite effort: in addition to the children from the parish school, it includes seminarians from St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston and some help from the Catholic Student Centre at the University of Texas.  (That’s hard to take for an Aggie, but…we knew how to deal with Catholic students from Austin.)

In addition to this effort, Sandi Yonikus (1936-1988) was also a writer of children’s books.

The songs:

1. Building The Earth
2. Our God Is Good
3. Spirit Of God
4. Gio (The Little Yellow Bird)
5. We Come As Your People
6. I’ll Find Me A Mountain
7. He’ll Come Again
8. Knock On Any Door
9. Sing Alleluia
10. Teach Me
11. Christ Takes His Throne
12. Sing With Joy
13. Gather ‘Round The Table

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