Comments on: “As Swing As All Get Out”: Missionary Orchestra Hits Motor Town http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/ Where our past is never very long ago Wed, 22 May 2013 14:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-25159 Carol Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:34:11 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-25159 In Argentina in 1984, our mission president assigned an elder to write a musical. He hired a professional to write music and professional singers to record the songs. Then members and missionaries performed it and lip synced the songs. They traveled around the mission for two years. It was called Busco la Luz (I search for the light). It was a lot like Saturday’s Warrior.

]]> By: Maurine http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-25024 Maurine Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:12:55 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-25024 The Deseret News article mentions that Spencer F. Hatch preceeded the orchestra and passed out literature. He lived down the street from me in Centerville, Utah. It was fun to see the picture of the elders in that article.

]]> By: Mex Davis http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-25011 Mex Davis Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:24:16 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-25011 Sorry about being so late in reading your post. It was very good. We live in the burbs of Detroit and the story gives some postive stuff about the Motor City for a change. We had a band in Spain about 1972. It was called Los Salt Lake. They did several concerts around the country and had records made. They actually did very well. One of the Elders is the ex of Marie Osmond (sp) and the drummer was an early member of Iron Butterfly.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24994 Ardis E. Parshall Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:58:23 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24994 Cool. Both hits give far better descriptions than the one from the Detroit paper, and both have photographs — unfortunately I can’t crop and post photos from these archived images. Anybody interested should definitey try this search yourself.

]]> By: Yeechang Lee http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24993 Yeechang Lee Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:24:38 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24993 Ardis, are you aware of the Google News archives at http://news.google.com/archivesearch ? It offers an amazing number of searchable historical newspaper images. Its timeline feature does a wonderful job of visually depicting great events’ impact on the news; try searching for “Sputnik” or “Pearl Harbor” or “world trade center” and “hijacked”.

Back to the topic, there are two entries for “Deseret Orchestra”, with one perhaps being of especial interest to you.

]]> By: J. Stapley http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24990 J. Stapley Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:23:12 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24990 So perhaps Hunter’s equivalent today would be a kid in a punk rock band becoming Church president in 60 years.

]]> By: Mark Brown http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24989 Mark Brown Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:16:24 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24989 In Argentina in the ’60s there was a traveling missionary band called Los Mormon Boys. I’ve listened to one of their recordings and they played doo-wop, Beach Boy kind of stuff. When Richard G. Scott became president of the mission, los boys were all immediately released from their music gigs and instructed to start knocking doors.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24983 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:58:42 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24983 I’ve written to you off-blog. Thanks, Julie.

]]> By: Julie http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24982 Julie Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:04:49 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24982 I live in a northern Detroit burb. I rarely make it into the city, but let me know what you need and I’ll see what I can do.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/10/%e2%80%9cas-swing-as-all-get-out%e2%80%9d-missionary-orchestra-hits-motor-town/comment-page-1/#comment-24978 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:33:50 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7752#comment-24978 By the way, if “Hunter’s Croonadors” sounds funny, try this European mission music group I saw in the papers yesterday: “The Mormonaires” and their lady missionary counterparts, “The Mormonettes.”

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