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Submitted by
Name: Andy Curless

Comments:
Phenomenal. Thank you so much for putting this together. I’ll be using this site daily. Never thought I’d have access to so many different bands. You’ve captured the quality perfectly.

Added: May 27, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Bill Groff
From: Major

Comments:
This is a tremendous trove of some of the great music from our Salvation Army history. Thanks

Added: May 27, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Major Frederick Hagglund

Comments:
This is wonderful. Thank you so much for this website and access to all those wonderful Regal Zonophone records. I still have a few of the 78’s left.

Added: May 27, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Elizabeth Braines
From: Albury NSW Australia

Comments:
Thank you Ian for some great music. I’ve spent far too much time on your website, re-living some beautiful music. I have recommended your site to some friends. Thanks again Liz Braines

Added: May 21, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Clayton Vaught

Comments:
Thank-you for all the work in making all of this great music available. I’ve been listening all afternoon and will be back often

Added: May 21, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Neil Carter

Comments:
Good Morning Ian, I discovered your amazing archive from a link on the Enfield Citadel Band WebSite, and like so many other contributors have been listening and re-visiting my past with a mixture of joyful & tearful emotions. What an absolute treasure trove you have liberated. Although now a non-Salvationist, my parents were Officers, as were my grandparents before them, and this music forms an indelible nostalgic and blessed memory from my childhood and teen years, initially, believe it or not on a wind up gramophone attached to a very old valve radio. I could detail some dozens of titles which bring back memories, most of which I have played in as well, but leaving favourite Marches to one side, there are three or four devotional pieces which still move me to tears even today. The Light of the World - Songs in Exile - By Love Compelled - & The Eternal Quest, which final composition I consider to be more moving and spiritually helpful than almost any sermon I ever heard delivered. I have been privileged to meet both Eric Ball & Dean Goffin, and have been even more privileged to be able to keep in touch with RS-A, since he conducted my wedding over forty years ago. As has been said so many times, you can take the man out of the Army, but you can never take the Army out of the man. You have proven this to be oh so very true, and I look forward to many happy hours catching up with all those old memories which you have brought flooding back. Thankyou does not even come close to expressing my gratitude. Neil Carter Oxford UK

Added: May 18, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Merveen McPherson

Comments:
Thank you Ian. What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Nothing like a trip down memory lane to remind one of their age. Sunday lunch always included an Army 78 collection on the radiogram. Because some pieces were on 2 sides of the record we had to plan how they were stacked. Can remember jumping up to turn the record over so that there would not be too much gap in the piece. Have heard some old selections since and still remember the spot where the record needed to be turned.

Added: May 17, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Malcolm Slight

Comments:
This certainly brings back some pleasant memories

Added: Apr 30, 2009

Submitted by
Name: Paul Perryman
From: Belfast NI

Comments:
Have been sitting listening for most of the evening to the Band pieces & also the songsters and being what some might call a Traditional Salvationist it is good to see that the old type of Salvation Army Music is not dead or forgotten.

Added: Apr 25, 2009

Submitted by
Name: John Brooks
From: New Dundee, Ontario

Comments:
What an amazing collection of memories. I remember Sunday afternoons in Notting Hill spent listening to many of the 78’s on our wind-up gramophone and the excitement when my Dad brought home our first electric record player. Thank you so much for your work and may God continue to bless and use you through this site. John Brooks

Added: Apr 23, 2009