How's THIS for secular?

There were a few times where I heard some young kids singing:

"You down with G.O.D.? Yeah you know me."

I was like:

What churches y'all go to? Lol I'm the keyboard player at my church. The praise team did We Sing Praises and I did the Jackson 5 riff from I Want You Back and they said if I had put any more of that song in my arragnement, we would probably get stopped by the pastor and told to do a different song. Other than that, I know there were a lot of gospel remixes to Beyonce's Drunk In Love a few years ago.

I wonder if anyone performed "Joy To The World" with the Three Dog Night interpolation like Mariah Carey's 1994 version.

anc282 said:

How's THIS for secular?

There were a few times where I heard some young kids singing:

"You down with G.O.D.? Yeah you know me."

I was like:

Every chuch lay dee!

beast44 said:

we would probably get stopped by the pastor and told to do a different song.

I mean, asking never hurt.

onlyforaminute said:

No for the most part, but there are moments like at the 2:10 mark there's a familiar riff. Honestly if you're playing like this on the regular one wouldn't need to use a lot from the secular to move the congregation. I'm like wired after this. I can do all things... https://youtu.be/LsmgRq_Tl_4

Cool!

The Lakewood Church band used to play the riff from "Beat It" in "We Have Overcome". Go to 6:33 in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/w..._qknkfbCc0

For two years I ran the Intermediate School praise band at the Baptist church we used to attend. I would take pop and rock songs, change a few words, and have the kids perform them. Here are some of the songs we did:

Prince - "Guitar" (I changed it to "My God" - I love you baby, but not like I love my God!)
Steppenwolf - "Born to Be Wild" (I think we changed this to "Born to Love God")
Duffy - "Mercy" (Didn't have to change a lot in this one)
Journey - "Don't Stop Believing" (Didn't have to change much in this one, either)

There were a bunch more but I can't remember them right now. We also did "One of Us" the way Prince did it. BTW, I even taught my 8th-grade guitarist the entire solo in "Guitar" and he did a pretty good job with it, LOL.

Anytime Anyplace(instrument Janet Jackson)

RodeoSchro said:

I haven't been to church in a long time, but I would think "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley would have been played there quite a bit. Iroinically, even ehough it involes biblical themes, the song itself is about a busted relationship.

Many churches set their hymns to classical arrangements, many of which were secular.

Yesterday I was at a memorial service at a synagogue and 3 of the decedent's favorite pop songs were played, including "Don't Know Much," Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt.

My cousin's memorial service featured a song dedicated to his girlfriend, "I'm Stone In Love With You," The Stylistics.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Anytime Anyplace(instrument Janet Jackson)

SKIRT AROUND MY WAIST
WALL AGAINST MY FACE

I can't seem to picture a choir singing this one.

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