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Love Song was one of the main Jesus music
Jesus music

Jesus music, known as gospel beat music in the United Kingdom, is a style of Christian music which originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
 bands, one of the first Christian rock
Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by band whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christianity....
 bands. It was founded in 1970 by Chuck Girard
Chuck Girard

Chuck Girard and moved to Santa Rosa, CA in his young teens) is an United States musician, and was a member of The Castells, The Hondells and later, Love Song , one of the pioneer Christian rock groups....
, Tommy Coomes, Jay Truax
Jay Truax

Jay Truax is a bass player and singer with Love Song , a pioneer Christian rock group. Jay formed a Salt Lake City rock group with John Mehler and Fred Field called Spirit of Creation....
, and Fred Field
Fred Field

Fred Field, born Hollywood, Ca., guitarist, violinist and singer with Love Song , a pioneer of Christian rock music.Fred was an accomplished violinist who played with the Downey Symphony....
. Additionally, the earliest members included David Ingram
David Ingram

David Ingram was a Hollywood, California, California based recording studio session musician, songwriter and arrangement. As a keyboard instrument player, Ingram was a member of the Marin County based band AnExchange, who toured Europe with The Platters and The Coasters, backed up Carlo Thomas, worked with record producer Bob Conti, and per...
 on keyboards, Ernie Earnshaw
Ernie Earnshaw

Ernie Earnshaw is a musician and recording artist. He began playing drums with the popular surf-band of the 1960's, the Royale Monarchs at the Bob Eubanks Cinnamon Cinder night clubs in Los Angeles and performed on his Cinnamom Cinder television show....
 on drums and Jack Schaeffer
Jack Schaeffer

Jack Schaeffer American musician, recording artist, record producer and arranger.The saxophone player and vocalist was signed by producer Gary Usher to a recording contract at Universal Studios, Decca Records....
 on bass. It was Schaeffer who came up with the group's name. Denny Correll
Denny Correll

Dennis "Denny" Correll was a one-time singer in the 1960s rock music group Blues Image as well as a Contemporary Christian musician active in the 1970s....
, formerly of Blues Image, also sang with the group early on before they became Christians. Field was replaced by Bob Wall
Bob Wall(Guitarist)

Bob Wall, born Burbank, Ca., is a musician and recording artist who played guitar on the "Love Song" and "Final Touch" albums for the first Christian rock band, Love Song ....
, who played guitar on all three albums. Drummer John Mehler
John Mehler

John Mehler, born August 27, 1948 in Long Beach, CA, drummer for Love Song , Spirit of Creation, Noah and other bands. John graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969 and soon thereafter moved to Salt Lake City with two musician friends, Chuck Fraher and Jay Truax to form Spirit of Creation....
, who had joined the fledgling group in its infancy, then left with Field, rejoined in time to play on Final Touch and Feel the Love.






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Love Song was one of the main Jesus music
Jesus music

Jesus music, known as gospel beat music in the United Kingdom, is a style of Christian music which originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
 bands, one of the first Christian rock
Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by band whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christianity....
 bands. It was founded in 1970 by Chuck Girard
Chuck Girard

Chuck Girard and moved to Santa Rosa, CA in his young teens) is an United States musician, and was a member of The Castells, The Hondells and later, Love Song , one of the pioneer Christian rock groups....
, Tommy Coomes, Jay Truax
Jay Truax

Jay Truax is a bass player and singer with Love Song , a pioneer Christian rock group. Jay formed a Salt Lake City rock group with John Mehler and Fred Field called Spirit of Creation....
, and Fred Field
Fred Field

Fred Field, born Hollywood, Ca., guitarist, violinist and singer with Love Song , a pioneer of Christian rock music.Fred was an accomplished violinist who played with the Downey Symphony....
. Additionally, the earliest members included David Ingram
David Ingram

David Ingram was a Hollywood, California, California based recording studio session musician, songwriter and arrangement. As a keyboard instrument player, Ingram was a member of the Marin County based band AnExchange, who toured Europe with The Platters and The Coasters, backed up Carlo Thomas, worked with record producer Bob Conti, and per...
 on keyboards, Ernie Earnshaw
Ernie Earnshaw

Ernie Earnshaw is a musician and recording artist. He began playing drums with the popular surf-band of the 1960's, the Royale Monarchs at the Bob Eubanks Cinnamon Cinder night clubs in Los Angeles and performed on his Cinnamom Cinder television show....
 on drums and Jack Schaeffer
Jack Schaeffer

Jack Schaeffer American musician, recording artist, record producer and arranger.The saxophone player and vocalist was signed by producer Gary Usher to a recording contract at Universal Studios, Decca Records....
 on bass. It was Schaeffer who came up with the group's name. Denny Correll
Denny Correll

Dennis "Denny" Correll was a one-time singer in the 1960s rock music group Blues Image as well as a Contemporary Christian musician active in the 1970s....
, formerly of Blues Image, also sang with the group early on before they became Christians. Field was replaced by Bob Wall
Bob Wall(Guitarist)

Bob Wall, born Burbank, Ca., is a musician and recording artist who played guitar on the "Love Song" and "Final Touch" albums for the first Christian rock band, Love Song ....
, who played guitar on all three albums. Drummer John Mehler
John Mehler

John Mehler, born August 27, 1948 in Long Beach, CA, drummer for Love Song , Spirit of Creation, Noah and other bands. John graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969 and soon thereafter moved to Salt Lake City with two musician friends, Chuck Fraher and Jay Truax to form Spirit of Creation....
, who had joined the fledgling group in its infancy, then left with Field, rejoined in time to play on Final Touch and Feel the Love. Another latter-day member was Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy

Philip Tyler Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets....
, who joined to replace departing Wall in 1973 but had already left the group before the recording of Final Touch and Feel the Love.

They were a part of the Jesus Movement
Jesus movement

The Jesus movement was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major hippie element within some strands of Protestantism....
 of the late 60s and early 70s, coming out of Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith may refer to:*Chuck Smith , Protestant pastor and founder of Calvary Chapel*Chuck Smith , former pitcher in Major League Baseball...
's Calvary Chapel
Calvary Chapel

Calvary Chapel, a non-denominational, Evangelicalism fellowship of Christianity churches, began in 1965 in Southern California. It presents itself as a "fellowship of churches" in contrast to a Christian denomination....
. Their classic debut album, Love Song (1972), is considered one of the greatest Christian music albums of all time. The group toured heavily in the early 70s, becoming very popular both in the US and abroad. By 1976, the Jesus Movement
Jesus movement

The Jesus movement was the major Christian element within the hippie counterculture, or, conversely, the major hippie element within some strands of Protestantism....
 was being replaced by Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) as the leading style of Christian rock
Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by band whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christianity....
, and it was becoming more business than ministry. Many of the bands that had started the movement began to break up, and after a final "Reunion Tour" in 1976 which resulted in the Feel The Love double live album, Love Song was no more.

Many of the original members continued with solo careers and a few are still performing today (2009). In 1994, the band recorded another reunion album, Welcome Back which included new versions of the songs off the first three albums.

Discography

  • Love Song (1972)
  • Final Touch (1974)
  • Feel The Love (1977) - double live album
  • Welcome Back (1994)


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