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:
- Building The Earth
- Our God Is Good
- Spirit Of God
- Gio (The Little Yellow Bird)
- We Come As Your People
- I’ll Find Me A Mountain
- He’ll Come Again
- Knock On Any Door
- Sing Alleluia
- Teach Me
- Christ Takes His Throne
- Sing With Joy
- Gather ‘Round The Table
My cousin would like to purchase this album. Where can it be purchased?
Building The Earth
If it’s available for download on this site, it’s not in distribution for purchase, unless I’ve missed something.