{"id":849,"date":"2025-07-27T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:04:16","slug":"found-sound-1977-78-welcome-back-to-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/found-sound-1977-78-welcome-back-to-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Found Sound: 1977-78 “Welcome Back To Jesus”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was saddened to hear of the passing in May of another friend from my younger years, Carol Burnette<\/a> (nee Snyder).\u00a0 I knew Carol from the “Phileos” Youth Choir at Severn Baptist Church during the late ’70s.<\/p>\n

As is often the case when you hear such news, I found myself recollecting about experiences in those days and remembered I had come across a recording we had done with some members of the group including Carol when digitizing my Reel-to-Reel archive.<\/p>\n

The song was “Welcome Back to Jesus<\/strong>” which was made popular in 1975 by the singer Evie Tornquist released on her “Evie Again” album.<\/p>\n

\"Picture<\/a>
The First 4-Channel Reel of Maxell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Digging through my Archive, I found the recording we had made — again with no detailed notes on the date or the players. But it was on the very first reel of Maxell tape we purchased and began recording with the TEAC A-2340SX 4-channel deck. Being on that reel, it was most likely recorded in late 1977.<\/p>\n

There were three tracks recorded for the song. There was Stereo mix of the Instruments and a Vocal track.\u00a0 Since you cannot hear any vocals on the Instrumental tracks, I’m thinking that those were recorded without any singing initially and the vocals were over-dubbed afterwards.<\/p>\n

Without notes from the session, I have to make some guesses on the Players.\u00a0 Brian Baker is playing Banjo, Garry O’Dell playing either 6 String or 12 Strings Acoustic Guitar, Rich Strickland playing either 6 String Guitar or Electric Bass or I am the one playing Bass. The Vocalists I hear are Carol Snyder, Garry O’Dell and Rich Strickland.<\/p>\n

I spent a little bit of time cleaning up the original recording and re-mixing.\u00a0 We tended to go a bit overboard on adding reverb to vocals back then.\u00a0 So through some new digital magic I was able to ‘deverb’ the reverb some on the Vocal track.\u00a0 Also with recent developments in audio processing it is also possible to ‘unmix’ certain instruments from mixed track.\u00a0 The bass was pretty low in the original Instrumental mix, so I was able to ‘unmix’ it out of those tracks to a track of its own, clean it up some and bring it up in the remix.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, Carol.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/djp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/10-Stereo-Out-03-WelcomeBackToJesus-1977-FourChannelTestReel-C14.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

(“Welcome Back To Jesus”, by David Baker; Audio recording Copyright 1977&2025 D.Jackson)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was saddened to hear of the passing in May of another friend from my younger years, Carol Burnette (nee Snyder).\u00a0 I knew Carol from the “Phileos” Youth Choir at Severn Baptist Church during the late ’70s. As is often the case when you hear such news, I found myself recollecting about experiences in those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dougjacksonproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}