What did you hear growing up at Mass and other liturgies?
I’m old enough to remember some Latin songs but I really only remember Mass parts and songs sung during Benediction. I do remember Mass parts being chanted in English. (Well, they still are.)
The earliest English songs I remember were such songs as “Holy Holy Holy”, “O Sacrament Most Holy”, “Now Thank We All Our God”, “Immaculate Mary”, etc.
In about the mid sixties I would sometimes attend Mass at a Dominican retreat center with a school friend. Her father played the guitar for the Sunday Mass held there. That Mass tended to attract Catholics who, for various reasons, had differences of opinion with the priests in their geographic area. Mass at my home parish usually featured the same songs as before.
In the late 1960’s, when I was in the sixth grade, Sister used to play records for us to practice singing. There was one recording by some sisters that featured various parables set to music. The one I remembered was called “I Cannot Come to the Banquet” or something like that. There was a line something like, “I have married a wife, I have bought me a cow,” which my class liked to change to, “I have bought me a wife, I have married a cow.” Sister also had a recording by Sebastian Temple (I think it had been released the previous year) which featured Princess Diana’s favorite, “Prayer of St. Francis” and various others. We used to sing those during our class Masses. As I recall, some lines from the songs were, “Come let’s share in the Supper of the Lord, In the Blessed Sacrament” and “The Mass is Ended, All Go in Peace”. I THINK those were Sebastian Temple compositions but I can’t find any info to verify it.
In the late sixties and early seventies it became popular to use the “Missa Bossa Nova” setting for youth masses. That was true through high school. My Catholic High School learned all the parts to sing for school Masses. Around this time I seem to remember that Masses with large youth attendance seemed to feature contemporary liturgical music but I honestly can’t remember what kind of music was used for other Masses. They may have not really had songs at all but just had organ instrumentals.
It was also very popular when I was in high school to attend Sunday mass at the nearby seminary. They used to have what they called a ‘guit-organ’ Mass which as you might guess featured guitar and organ. Bob Hurd and Ken Canedo (Mass of Glory) would play at those Masses, sometimes their own compositions.
I’m old enough to remember some Latin songs but I really only remember Mass parts and songs sung during Benediction. I do remember Mass parts being chanted in English. (Well, they still are.)
The earliest English songs I remember were such songs as “Holy Holy Holy”, “O Sacrament Most Holy”, “Now Thank We All Our God”, “Immaculate Mary”, etc.
In about the mid sixties I would sometimes attend Mass at a Dominican retreat center with a school friend. Her father played the guitar for the Sunday Mass held there. That Mass tended to attract Catholics who, for various reasons, had differences of opinion with the priests in their geographic area. Mass at my home parish usually featured the same songs as before.
In the late 1960’s, when I was in the sixth grade, Sister used to play records for us to practice singing. There was one recording by some sisters that featured various parables set to music. The one I remembered was called “I Cannot Come to the Banquet” or something like that. There was a line something like, “I have married a wife, I have bought me a cow,” which my class liked to change to, “I have bought me a wife, I have married a cow.” Sister also had a recording by Sebastian Temple (I think it had been released the previous year) which featured Princess Diana’s favorite, “Prayer of St. Francis” and various others. We used to sing those during our class Masses. As I recall, some lines from the songs were, “Come let’s share in the Supper of the Lord, In the Blessed Sacrament” and “The Mass is Ended, All Go in Peace”. I THINK those were Sebastian Temple compositions but I can’t find any info to verify it.
In the late sixties and early seventies it became popular to use the “Missa Bossa Nova” setting for youth masses. That was true through high school. My Catholic High School learned all the parts to sing for school Masses. Around this time I seem to remember that Masses with large youth attendance seemed to feature contemporary liturgical music but I honestly can’t remember what kind of music was used for other Masses. They may have not really had songs at all but just had organ instrumentals.
It was also very popular when I was in high school to attend Sunday mass at the nearby seminary. They used to have what they called a ‘guit-organ’ Mass which as you might guess featured guitar and organ. Bob Hurd and Ken Canedo (Mass of Glory) would play at those Masses, sometimes their own compositions.