Here is the songbook that was used from 1944 till 1950.
bookmarked and searchable.
http://www.archive.org/download/kingdomservicesongbook/1944kingdomservicesongbook.pdf
1944 Kingdom Service Song Book pdf
by bereanbiblestudent 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
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John Locke
Are there melodies available anywhere?
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RebeccaChi
Wow! Horrible lyrics, even despite it being 1944.
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bereanbiblestudent
song 51 Consecration: "take my silver and my gold, nothing Lord, would I withold."
I do not know if the melodies are available. The records with songs that I have are from before and after this period.
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bereanbiblestudent.
Thank you for that information.
John Locke.Are there melodies available anywhere?
Yeah, we can listen to that part by MIDI.
My friend (ex-JW) made that.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wa4k-ngtn/jwsongs/songs1984-02.html#1984-027
The machine translation of that web page is here.
http://excite.co.jp/world/english/web/?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asahi%2Dnet.or.jp%2F%7Ewa4k%2Dngtn%2Fjwsongs%2Fsongs1984.html&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2For example, ...
MIDI of No.7 "Blessed Are the People!" is here.
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wa4k-ngtn/jwsongs/midi/song1948-007.mid
This was No.57 "Jehovah's Happy People" in 1984 edition, and was deleted from the current song book.
If you listen to that MIDI, you will understand that melodies differ from the recent music somewhat.possible
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bereanbiblestudent
Karl Klein about Knorr:
"Brother Knorr was my favorite speaker. He once referred to me as his shadow, for I kept showing up where he gave talks. What is more, he was as fond of music as I was and reintroduced singing at our congregation meetings. He took a real interest in songbook publishing.—Ephesians 5:18-20" w10-1-1984p26
Before this songbook there was no singing at the meetings for some time, since Rutherford had stopped it.