LISTEN! The Hallelujah Chorus

Years and years ago, when I was a boy in the 1970s, I was watching Saturday Night Live and one week they had an all-female group as their musical guests. I don’t remember anything about their appearance except one thing: They sang the most beautiful version of the Hallelujah Chorus that I’d ever heard, made all the more striking by the fact it was sung a cappella.

The years rolled by, and that memory stayed with me. After the invention of Amazon.com, I did some searching and was able to find the song. It’s by The Roches, and it is absolutely stunning. I bought the CD, and was delighted by the song all over again. Unfortunately, the rest of the CD wasn’t so great. It has stuff on it that is morally repugnant, but this one song is window into heaven.

Because of the problems with the rest of the CD, and because of the inability to purchase just one song, I didn’t have a good way to recommend it to others.

Until now.

Wal-Mart now has an 88 cent per song music download service that is 100% legal, so let me encourage you to BUY THIS SONG!

First, to give you a taste of it, here’s a clip. The rest of the song is even better than what’s in the clip.

Now: BUY THE SONG! Click here to put it in your card, and Click here to view your cart afterwards.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

6 thoughts on “LISTEN! The Hallelujah Chorus”

  1. I’ll be sure to check that out, I *love* “The Messiah.”
    Has Catholic Answers ever considered a service like that in addition to tapes and CD’s? I record all my CA tapes into my computer anyway; it serves as my stereo, so it’s much easier to have them all there at my fingertips.

  3. Well, we diverge on certain topics! The Roches’ version of the Hallelujah Chorus grates on my nerves — akin to caterwauling!
    ‘thann

  5. Frankly, after viewing the video, I’ve got to agree with Ruthann.
    (And seeing Bea Arthur introduce them was no treat, either. I had managed to block her existence on the planet out of my mind).

  6. I see this is an incredibly old post, but if someone still monitors this, I have a question. What was morally repugnant about the rest of the album?
    Just curious.

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