New hymns/songs

[russellhltn]

Oh, it allows hyphens. I had tried typing slashes into the text box, but it did not allow slashes, so I had figured it allowed only digits.

I just went by how the date picking tool populated the field.

[lajackson]

If you can find the published news article and share it here I would be interested in reading it.

I tried. And thanks to everyone else who also blazed the mists of ancient search trails.

Alas, it was 39 years ago, I have slept since then, and at the time I was receiving the Church News weekly by snail mail. I no longer have any of those papers.

Using newer technology (i.e., my laptop), the oldest Deseret News article I was able to find was a 1988 item, still four years shy of my time traveling destination.

The quote would have been by Michael Moody, then chairman of the Church Music Committee. Searching the CN archives under his name, I did find a few blast from the past items of interest:

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https://www.thechurchnews.com/1989/2/25 ... available/
All the hymns in the LDS hymnbook have been . . . recorded in stereophonic sound on 18 cassette tapes, with approximately 45 minutes of material on each side of a tape. Bound in a plastic case with a color photo on the cover, . . .
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/2005/9/24 ... -turns-20/
After the [1985 hymnbook] was announced in the early 1980s, the music office was deluged with some 6,000 hymns from throughout the Church, and giving due consideration to each one was a "humongous task," he said.
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https://www.thechurchnews.com/1992/4/25 ... of-choirs/
"Our policy is that choirs should sing in at least two sacrament meetings each month throughout the year. Elder Mark E. Petersen [a member of the Council of the Twelve, now deceased] used to say every Sunday is even better.
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Spoken like a true music person.

[ambldsorg]

I tried. And thanks to everyone else who also blazed the mists of ancient search trails.

Thanks for the effort. I read through some of the news articles you found and they were fun to read, especially the one about "tapes". Few youngsters know what those are now I imagine.