Psalty on MP3

The other day I came across Matthew 16:24 (Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”) and this song from Kids Praise Vol. 2 came to mind. That got me thinking about Kids Praise in general and whether church kids these days still know Psalty the big blue book. I don’t mean to go on and on about the ‘80s, but Kids Praise was from that era. I think my sister and I must have gotten to the third album (Psalty was already married to Psaltina and they had 3 little booklets: Melody, Harmony and Rhythm) before we moved on to “grown-up” Christian songs like Sandi Patti and Amy Grant. Anyway, Chip and I can probably still sing (and recite; there were dialogs) the Kids Praise albums even though we haven’t listened to them for about twenty years. Even if we were able to store the cassette tapes, they would have been damaged in the  flood that devastated my hometown last year. I plan to haunt an MP3 Search Engine until I find those old Kids Praise songs. While it would have been neat to still have the cassette tapes, they would really just be for collection at this point. It’s just not practical to listen to them regularly because for starters, you wouldn’t want to ruin something that’s on its way to becoming truly vintage. Do you remember how careful you had to be to listen to tapes? No matter how much you wanted to rewind, you resisted the urge because constant rewinding would muck up the tape and before you knew it, you would be pulling out lengths of tape, attempting to fix it yourself, which naturally just spelled doom for the record. Those were the days. I think of the MP3 players and iPods that we have now and reluctantly register that it has, in fact, been more than twenty years. Of course, back then, parents looked at the tapes and felt the same nostalgia for vinyls.