Musical theater selections of Gospel music from the seven Operas of Dave Stauffer's "Sow Y'oats" screenplay series, featuring virtuoso lead singers backed by two to six-part harmonies along with guitars, keyboards and drums.

10 MP3 Songs in this album (41:44) !
Related styles: EASY LISTENING: Musicals/Broadway, SPIRITUAL: Contemporary Christian

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Each human story in each song of the PRAY SERVICE album is taken from the dramatic story in one of the musical screenplays of Dave Staufferâs seven-movie screenplay series, âSow Yâoats!â In the seven related stories, the same characters are followed from the age of six to their middle age in many dramatic, insightful, religious, romantic, and sexy subplots. The seven screenplays incorporate about eighty original songs that Dave Stauffer has written, and his talented band of Believers has recorded. The plots have a lot to do with dating, maturing, and philosophy dealing with Godâand so do the songs they sing. In several of the PRAY SERVICE songs, the singers speak their lines in or during the song, which adds a deep meaning to the words of the songs. By listening to the words and the mood of the music, each listener can feel the emotion of the dramatic event that the song describes in the screenplay.
To write his songs, Dave Stauffer has drawn on his many years of singing tenor in church choirs as well as his years of singing, playing bass and guitar, and writing songs in several rock and roll bands that played for years in smoky bars and taverns. Along the way, he acquired a community of outstanding singers and musicians to record his harmonious songs.
Occasionally, Dave Stauffer has stumbled on flashes of musical brillianceâsuch as his observation that âJesu, Joy of Manâs Desiringâ by Johann Sebastian Bach and âJoyful, Joyful, We Adore Theeâ by Ludwig Von Beethoven were written in the same key and, with a little imagination, had the same beat, so that Bach and Beethoven could be combined into the Bach-Beethoven Duo.
Additionally, he wrote dramatic words to fit his screenplay and added them to the romantic mood of âTheme from the Second Piano Concertoâ of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), which resulted in âWashedâ.
The PRAY SERVICE album contains a wide variety of musical styles: âGo In Peaceâ is a reggae song sung by six different lead singers who combine into a six-part harmony choir by the end of the song. âKeep The Faithâ is a modern creation which sounds like an old-time revival meeting. âIâll Stick With Youâ combines a four-part harmony part with a three-part counter-melody, resulting in seven-part harmony over a three octave range. âThis Little Childâ is destined to become a theme song of both Motherâs Day and Fatherâs Day. Finally, âThe Dirgeâ is like no other religious song ever recorded in that it combines a three-part menâs chorus with another two-part menâs counter-melody; in it, the listener is placed at the funeral where the first menâs chorus escorts the deceased to the beyond and the second menâs chorus prays for the intervention of God.
The PRAY SERVICE album ends with âKeep The Faith (Long Version)â to give the listener a true religious experience to sustain them on their lifeâs journey.