Hasn't been like this for decades ...
Kingdom Hall singing ....
by Old Goat 3 Replies latest watchtower bible
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HeyThere
it used to sound like that?
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tim hooper
LOL. I recall years ago KM song entitled "Happy is the man who keeps awake". It was actually the tune to the Maine Stein song and was one of the few melodies that actually made you feel like joining in.
Years later, the Two Ronnies brought out their own version of the Stein song and because of it's obvious double entendres caused great offence to the oldies who recalled the old KM song.
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tim hooper
WT president Judge Rutherford actually banned singing kingdom songs:
The Watchtower, May 1, 1938, p 139, "At all study meetings...the one presiding at the study might well, as a prelude to the meeting, briefly state God’s purpose which is now being performed... two minutes might well be devoted to such at the beginning of all meetings for study [by] the one presiding... A few words like the above pronounced at the beginning of the study would be far more beneficial than to occupy the same time in singing songs, which often express much that is out of harmony with the truth"