Bearded Holiness Choir Singer

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On Fri, 04 Sep 1998 02:21:26 -0500 Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net>
writes:

>At 01:44 AM 9/4/98 -0500, Bro Tyler, me, wrote:

>I remember that the pastor had no problem with me being a member of 
>the church with a beard... but... the only thing that they'd not allow
me 
>to do ... is join the choir.  

Don't feel so bad.  I got kicked out of playing bass for the choir
because I wrote a song that was not Southern Gospel...

>I could give a sermonette from behind the pulpit.  I could sing a 
>special song.  I could usher and greet.  But I was never ever
>allowed to sing in the choir.  I kinda felt like choir membership was 
>a carrot they dangled in front of me.  "Only if"....

I remember that people were saying "Maybe he works outside and it keeps
his face warm", or "When he's been here long enough, he'll shave it off",
stuff like that.  But even then, stuff like that didn't phase me.  I
remember you as sort of a young version of Santa Claus; full of joy (I
can easily see you "nyuk-nyukking") and very friendly.  No, I'm not 
trying to insinuate you wear red suits.  :)

>The time I made up for non-choir singing was during church camp every 
>year.  Even though I couldn't sing in the local choir, I was allowed to
sing 
>in the church camp choir.  MAN!  They were usually really good choirs 
>too!  I remember a camp several years ago that I didn't get any time off
for 
>it, and I'd get up at 5 am get read and drive to work (60 miles to 
>Champaign) work 8 hours and then drive back just in time to miss the
first 5 
>minutes of choir practice.  A week of that absolutely wore me out.

Speaking of singing, do you remember The BARGE Brothers?

Can you name EACH of the BARGE Brothers?

B = (The Bass Singer) 
A = (We really didn't quite know WHAT this one sang)
R = (Lead Singer)
G = Me, Gerald, Tenor Extraordinaire, ala Ernie Phillips and I played
bass
E = (Second Bass, believe it or not)

Second BARGE Bros. Trivia Question: Do you remember what song we ALWAYS
sung?

>There was another time when God would move mightly with a particular 
>camp's choir that I was a member of.  The last day of that week, in the 
>all-commers vs Preachers softball game 

OUCH!  That's a painful story, in more ways than one...I loved to play
softball.  Even when I was in the Army, stationed in Korea, I played on
the AFKN Softball Team.

>As I understand, they even asked about me this year 
>even though I've not been at that ALJC church camp 
>for > 1 year now.
>
>Bro Tyler  

Well, that's pretty much emblazened in everyone's memory.

"Have you heard how Brother Tyler's doing?"
"Who?"
"You know, Brother Tyler, from Gibson City?  Has a beard?"
"Hmmm, no, I don't...OH YEAH!  The guy who broke his ankle!"

Such is life.

Jerry Welch

www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2810/

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