{"id":1695,"date":"2018-12-27T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2018-12-27T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:01:01","slug":"blog-december-27th-lucy-stimpson-maynard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Blog December 27th \u201cLucy Stimpson- Maynard\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1695-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"354\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/video-1545407762.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/video-1545407762.mp4\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/video-1545407762.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>We hope you have had a very happy Christmas and will have a most prosperous New Year.<\/p>\n<p>I recently viewed the featured video of Lucy Stimpson- Maynard on Facebook and so many wonderful memoires of our recording together came flooding back- so I have looked back on some of my blogs from four years ago in order to have a bit of a \u00a0reminisce:.<\/p>\n<p><em>When sometime in late 1997 I read in the Holy Rood Church notice sheet that there was to be a worship seminar in Winchester, led by Brian Doerksen, \u00a0I had that \u201cfeeling\u201d inside that made me know that this was something I was meant to attend.\u00a0 One of the many songs that Brian had written was \u201cMore than Oxygen\u201d which had been played at the service in which I was baptised Brian is from Canada so I knew the opportunities to attend one of his Seminars would be few and far between.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So I went on my own to Winchester \u2013 which of course I knew pretty well having been to Teaching Training College there- to a church (now Winchester Family Church) housed in what had been a Cinema.\u00a0 I have to say I was not entirely comfortable with all the hand raising and that is about all I can remember from the evening apart from the important fact that I thought \u2013 \u201cI wonder if my pop songs could become Christian songs \u2013 perhaps that is why it was intended that I came to this Worship Seminar? \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So I went home and started \u201cconverting\u201d the lyrics of my pop songs to Christian lyrics. For some songs this was relatively easy \u2013 only needing for example to change \u201cbaby\u201d to \u201cLord!\u201d For others it was not so simple, for example \u201cDon\u2019t Lose Sight Of My Shore\u201d became \u201cFather Help Me Acknowledge You\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So I went to see John Hodgkinson the science teacher at Crofton School where I was Head of PE and told him that I wanted to do some recording again. He was fine about that \u2013 however I now had to tell him that the songs to be recorded were no longer straight pop songs, with a view to making us money, but Christian songs. \u00a0\u00a0For some reason I was embarrassed about this and mumbled \u201cJohn, the words have changed.\u201d \u00a0John replied \u201cWhy, the words are fine.\u201d \u00a0\u201cYes John but now they are Chris\u2026\u2026\u2026. words\u201d I did not actually say the word Christian as I had my hand over my mouth so just a muffled \u201cChris \u2026\u201d came out.\u00a0 About three times this happened before John could hear the word \u201cChristian.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s fine\u201d he reassured me \u2013 so there had been no need\u00a0for me to be embarrassed at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Next thing was to find a singer-I had just heard at the School Prom karaoke Lucy Stimpson the new Crofton music teacher sing \u00a0the Joe Cocker version of the Beatles\u2019 song \u201cWith a little help from my friends\u201d and knew that \u201cshe was the one.\u201d So next day I ventured over to the music department armed with my cassette of \u201cDon\u2019t Lose Sight Of My Shore.\u201d\u00a0 After hearing it Lucy said that she would love to record it but why as the previous recording was great. \u201cAh yes Lucy\u201d I hesitantly explained \u201cBut the words have changed.\u201d \u00a0\u201cWhy, they are great words\u201d insisted Lucy. \u00a0\u201cThanks, but they are now \u201cChris\u2026\u2026. words\u201d I burbled with hand over mouth. \u00a0After the regulation three \u201cChris\u2019s \u2026..\u201d the word Christian came out to which Lucy replied \u201cThat\u2019s great I am a Christian.\u201d What no way -this was going too well \u2013 what about all the micky taking I was expecting?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I also found out that Lucy, not only had a beautiful voice, but also played piano brilliantly. Also \u00a0that she could play either by reading music \u00a0or by ear \u2013 and as there was no way that I could ever produce written music Lucy being able to play by ear was just perfect!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So the first CD was born- \u201c I Look Up To The Heavens.\u201d\u00a0 We then recorded \u201cLove is the Way\u201d \u201cUplifted\u201d \u201cWhere Would I Be Without You\u201d and \u201cPrecious\u201d (which was in tribute to my mum) We also did numerous \u00a0concerns together including a performance at Hereford Cathedral. In addition Lucy starred in Mustard Seed\u2019s musical \u201cHis Story which was performed at the Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, the Kings Theatre, Southsea and Central Hall, Westminster, London. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0It became more difficult for Lucy and me to record together after she moved to Cambridge and Mustard Seed Songs became focused on musical theatre. However I will always treasure all the wonderful times Lucy and I shared\u2026 and you never know there may still be more to come!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quote of the week:<\/p>\n<p>I would rather fail in the cause that ultimately will triumph rather than triumph in the cause that ultimately will fail.<\/p>\n<p>Woodrow Wilson in Every Day With Jesus<\/p>\n<p>x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope you have had a very happy Christmas and will have a most prosperous New Year. 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