Album Notes

Watergrave Records is a newly designed division of Retroactive Records that focuses solely on reissues of out of print classic CCM & Jesus Music! Our first release is by Children of the Day, the first band to come out of the Calvary Chapel movement with Pastor Chuck Smith! It was originally released on Marantha! Music in 1971, and the song \"For Those Tears I Died\" (also on the Everlastin\' Living Jesus Music Concert sampler and sometimes called \"Come to the Waters\") became a national phenomenon! CDs are available for purchase now!


Children of the Day \"Come To the Waters\"

Band Name: Children of the Day
Album Title: Come to the Waters
Style: Soft Rock/Jesus Music
Product ID: RAR7861
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Record Label: Retroactive Records (www.retroactiverecords.net)/Watergrave Records
Distribution: Brutal Planet Distribution (brutalplanet@gmail.com), Plastic Head (U.K.)
Band Contact: \"Wendy Fremin\"
Barcode: 184799000516
Insert: 6 panel, with lyrics and full band bio, full color,
Tracks: 9,

ABOUT THE ALBUM
This is where it all started. Children of the Day should probably be viewed as the world\'s first \"contemporary Christian music\" group--except that it was called Jesus Music back then. It was an album that defined the Jesus movement as well as any other album ever would and it became a national phenomenon. As one historian puts it, \"Children of the Day were first--and Love Song was about ten minutes behind.\"
The thought that Christian music could sound like popular \"secular\" music was a radical innovation that would ultimately launch a revolution in liturgics unparalleled by anything since Reformers introduced congregational singing in the sixteenth century. But Children of the Day did not seem to know (or care) that they were innovators. They don\'t appear to have studied the works or thought of Ralph Carmichael or others who had tried for years to accomplish what they did in weeks. There was no intention or design. They weren\'t assembled by any record company or culled from the ranks of a Gospel choir. They were just four kids (almost literally) who had been revived by personal encounters with Jesus and who, like Peter in Acts, could not \"keep from speaking of what (they) had seen and heard\" (4:20). They could not help but speak of it, and since they were musicians they could not help but sing of it. And--since they were teenagers--they could not help but sing and write songs in the musical idioms most readily available to them, the California sounds that they heard emanating from their transistor radios and 8-track tape players. The music seemed to bubble up from the depths of their souls and just spill out, as though they had very little to do with it themselves. Witnessing such a phenomenon inevitably touched the hearts of the curious and the questing, with profound results. Musically, they and their peers (especially Love Song) provided some of the single most authentic moments in American music of the early \'70s. No one else in that post-Woodstock, pre-disco era cared as much about their music or performed it with as much conviction. No one else in the decade that followed the \'60s really believed that their songs might--probably would--change the world. Indeed, no one (in Christian or secular music) seems to have thought so since.
They will always be best remembered for one incredible song: \"For Those Tears I Died\" (first found on The Everlastin\' Living Jesus Music Concert compilation lp and sometimes called \"Come to the Waters\"). An absolute masterpiece, written by a 16-year-old (Marsha Stevens), it expresses adolescent piety better than any other Christian song ever written--and yet does so in language that evokes imagery of baptism and liberation that even theologically mature adults (who may or not care for the sentimental qualities) can appreciate: \"Jesus said, Come to the Waters / Stand by my side / I know you are thirsty / You won\'t be denied / I felt every teardrop / When in darkness you cried / And I strove to remind you / That for those tears I died.\"
The group took its name from 1 Thessalonians 5:5. A true ensemble, all four members wrote songs and all four sang and played. They were integrally related to the ministry of Costa Mesa\'s Calvary Chapel (\"ground zero\" for the Jesus movement). The group even borrowed $900 for Pastor Chuck Smith to record their debut masterpiece at Abbey Sound Ltd in LA. It was engineered by Buck Herring (2nd Chapter of Acts).
by Mark Allan Powell
Excerpts taken from The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music

KEY SELLING POINTS
-Full Radio / Magazine campaign
-Original Artwork enhanced
-Limited Edition 1000 Units
-Digitally Remastered for a high quality audio experience
-The first Children of the Day release ever available on CD
-Song \"For Those Tears I Died\" is in almost every church hymnal in the USA
-\"For Those Tears I Died\" was included on the ever influential Everlastin\' Living Jesus Music Concert lp (Maranatha! Music)
-Originally Release in 1971 on Maranatha! Music, the leading label in Contemporary Christian Music in the 70\'s.
-For Fans of Love Song, Larry Norman, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Mamas & the Papas, Simon and Garfunkel, Peter, Paul & Mary.

Track Listing: New Life, As A Child, Children of the Day, The Search, Two Hands, Jesus Lives, All Breathing Life, Jesus, For Those Tears I Died