CHUCK GIRARD- Singer, Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Worship Leader
A Pioneer of Contemporary Christian Music, Member and Co-Founder of the CCM group 'LOVE SONG.'
A Pioneer of Contemporary Christian Music, Member and Co-Founder of the CCM group 'LOVE SONG.'
And The Rain came down
"And The Rain Came Down" was a song I actually wrote to submit to Johnny Cash.
I had heard that Johnny Cash was getting ready to do a gospel album, and I thought it might be cool to try to send it to him to see if he might do my song. However I never figured out how to get in touch with him, so I was never able to send a demo to him. Consequently, he never did the song and I decided just to do it myself.
The demo I had recorded for submission to Johnny was very different from my recording. It had a decided four beat piano track. (Available as a bonus cut on the Collector’s Series version of the album “The Stand”)
The producer of the album, Bob Rose, came up with the idea of doing a more contemporary track. I guess he was inspired by the guitar rhythm part from "Eye of the Tiger," and he came up with this arrangement which featured that kind of guitar idea. I thought it was quite different from the Johnny Cash arrangement and quite nice. This was not one of the “prophecy songs” on the album.
The song is a contemporary version of the story of Noah and the ark, with a dream twist at the end. My pastor at the time was Jack Hayford, of Church On The Way, Van Nuys, CA, and he told me that the message reminded him of Larry Norman’s “I Wish We'd All Been Ready."
I took this as quite a compliment.
Chuck
I had heard that Johnny Cash was getting ready to do a gospel album, and I thought it might be cool to try to send it to him to see if he might do my song. However I never figured out how to get in touch with him, so I was never able to send a demo to him. Consequently, he never did the song and I decided just to do it myself.
The demo I had recorded for submission to Johnny was very different from my recording. It had a decided four beat piano track. (Available as a bonus cut on the Collector’s Series version of the album “The Stand”)
The producer of the album, Bob Rose, came up with the idea of doing a more contemporary track. I guess he was inspired by the guitar rhythm part from "Eye of the Tiger," and he came up with this arrangement which featured that kind of guitar idea. I thought it was quite different from the Johnny Cash arrangement and quite nice. This was not one of the “prophecy songs” on the album.
The song is a contemporary version of the story of Noah and the ark, with a dream twist at the end. My pastor at the time was Jack Hayford, of Church On The Way, Van Nuys, CA, and he told me that the message reminded him of Larry Norman’s “I Wish We'd All Been Ready."
I took this as quite a compliment.
Chuck
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