{"id":30925,"date":"2013-07-25T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=30925"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:11:55","slug":"special","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=30925","title":{"rendered":"Special Section: He’s Able<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AlbumThe Peoples Temple choir recorded an album in 1973 entitled He\u2019s Able<\/em>, which offered a sampler of the music that Temple members would listen to, both during church services themselves and on the record players in their homes. As Brian Kevin says in the introduction of the first article, \u201cIt\u2019s a twelve-song collection, a mix of old spirituals, gospel-inspired originals, and a couple of late \u201960s Top 40 hits, all performed by a full choir and an eight-piece blue-eyed soul outfit with a hot brass section.\u201d<\/p>\n

The articles below are by producers and performers on the album, as well as a longer work by Brian Kevin.<\/p>\n

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    1. Songs (Largely) in the Key of Life<\/a>, by Brian Kevin<\/li>\n
    2. He\u2019s Able:<\/a><\/em> Reflections from the \u201cHot Brass Section,\u201d<\/a> by Mike Cartmell<\/li>\n
    3. Making The He\u2019s Able<\/em> Album<\/a>, by Laura Johnston Kohl<\/li>\n
    4. Confessions of a Junior Choir Director<\/a>, by Donald Beck<\/li>\n
    5. \u201cSing the song of life \u2026 Follow your dreams,\u201d<\/a> by Jack Arnold<\/li>\n
    6. He\u2019s Able:<\/a><\/em> An After Word<\/a>, by Brian Kevin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      A podcast recorded in 2021 by Shannon Howard that discusses He’s Able<\/em> with Jack Beam and Mike Cartmell, who participated in the production of the album, appears here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      The lyrics to the songs on the album \u2013 enclosed with each copy of the vinyl disk \u2013 are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      The tracks of He\u2019s Able<\/em>\u00a0are:<\/p>\n

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      1. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-01_Welcome.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Welcome<\/a><\/li>\n
      2. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-02_Walking_With_You_Father.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Walking With You Father<\/a><\/li>\n
      3. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-03_Set_Them_Free.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Set Them Free<\/a><\/li>\n
      4. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-04_Walk_A_Mile_In_My_Shoes.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Walk A Mile In My Shoes<\/a><\/li>\n
      5. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-05_Hold_On_Brother.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Hold On Brother<\/a><\/li>\n
      6. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-06_Down_From_His_Glory.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Down From His Glory<\/a><\/li>\n
      7. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-07_He_s_Able.mp3<\/a><\/audio>He’s Able<\/a><\/li>\n
      8. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-08_Something_Got_A_Hold_Of_Me.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Something Got A Hold Of Me<\/a><\/li>\n
      9. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-09_Because_Of_Him.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Because Of Him<\/a><\/li>\n
      10. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-10_Black_Baby.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Black Baby<\/a><\/li>\n
      11. https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/PTChoir-Hes_Able_LP-11_Will_You.mp3<\/a><\/audio>Will You<\/a><\/li>\n
      12. Simple Song of Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        He\u2019s Able<\/em> may also be played in its entirety through a YouTube link<\/a>, which opens to the album’s first song, “Welcome,” and which continues by using the “Autoplay” function above the song titles, in the upper right hand corner of the panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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