Pure Gospel - "Wings of a Dove"
American country musicians have always kept a strong backbone with their country and faith. So many country music songs have told the truth in God's word. Fans have found grace in the ballads and gospels brought to us by some of His greatest problem children and strongest believers.
One of my all time favorite gospel songs is "Wings of a Dove". While I was growing up , my Grandpa Guy never had a truck that had a reliable radio- a working CB radio- but never an F.M. dial and the A.M. stations were hardly anything but talk radio static at best.
However, the old township truck he drove plowing snow for Richwood Township, could actually get the A.M. stations that played music. At the young age of 8 or 9, riding with him, plowing snow one winter, coming up Sugar Creek Road and by the Hagen family farm, what would be my 1st recollection of both "Wings of a Dove" and Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" came through that distant sounding A.M. radio static.
Now there are two great versions of "Wings of a Dove" that could have been playing on that old A.M. station that day. One being Ferlin Husky - the late great American country musical Missouri man. Ferlin Husky, from The Great STL, worked in Saint Louis steel mills by day and its honky-tonks by night, all before serving as a United States Merchant Marine, in World War II.
It was in 1960 that he released "Wings of a Dove", his biggest hit that would stay on country charts #1 spot for 10 weeks and cross over to reach #12 on the pop charts.
Charlie Pride first released his own version of the hit on his 1968 album Make Mine Country.
Which ever version you decide to listen to is truly a religious experience. Of course, I've only moved on through my Charlie Pride songs... and am going to a Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town.
Ferlin Husky: "Wings of a Dove"
Charlie Pride: "Wings of a Dove"
One of my all time favorite gospel songs is "Wings of a Dove". While I was growing up , my Grandpa Guy never had a truck that had a reliable radio- a working CB radio- but never an F.M. dial and the A.M. stations were hardly anything but talk radio static at best.
However, the old township truck he drove plowing snow for Richwood Township, could actually get the A.M. stations that played music. At the young age of 8 or 9, riding with him, plowing snow one winter, coming up Sugar Creek Road and by the Hagen family farm, what would be my 1st recollection of both "Wings of a Dove" and Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" came through that distant sounding A.M. radio static.
Now there are two great versions of "Wings of a Dove" that could have been playing on that old A.M. station that day. One being Ferlin Husky - the late great American country musical Missouri man. Ferlin Husky, from The Great STL, worked in Saint Louis steel mills by day and its honky-tonks by night, all before serving as a United States Merchant Marine, in World War II.
It was in 1960 that he released "Wings of a Dove", his biggest hit that would stay on country charts #1 spot for 10 weeks and cross over to reach #12 on the pop charts.
Charlie Pride first released his own version of the hit on his 1968 album Make Mine Country.
Which ever version you decide to listen to is truly a religious experience. Of course, I've only moved on through my Charlie Pride songs... and am going to a Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town.
Ferlin Husky: "Wings of a Dove"
Charlie Pride: "Wings of a Dove"
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