Jesus - Meet Jesus Music Album ‘Gold’ (1975) Side 2 Track 7

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Meet Jesus Music
Jesus (Written by - Lou Hayles)
Side 2 Track 7
Album ‘Gold’ (1975)
Lead Vocal on 'Jesus' - Lou Hayles

Recorded 1975 for MGO's Dovetail Label
Produced by John Pantry at
Grosvenor Studios, Birmingham
Sleeve design by Gillard Bros. Graphics

Angie Routledge - Vocals,
Lou Hayles - Vocals, Recorder,
Ken Smith - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Trombone,
Dave Gillard - Lead, Slide & Acoustic Guitars,
Keith Routledge - Piano, Flute,
Simon Dennis - Bass,
Tony Taylor - Drums,
Jay Sullivan - Percussion

Peter Shade - Vibes, Flute, Ray Allen - Trumpet, Flugel Horn, Dave Gladman - Trombone, Keith Brown - Trombone
Dave Scragglier - Bass Trombone, Dave Thorn - Cello, Muriel Liddle - Harp

Live Sound Engineer: Mike Waller
Live Lighting: John Lloyd
Roadie: Robbie Botwright

Meet Jesus Music - 1972-1981
1972 - 76
Keith and Angie Routledge started the band in 1972. The line-up was Keith on piano with vocals by Angie, Lou Hayles and Ken Smith. Dave Gillard, guitars, Geoff Gillard, bass, and Tony Taylor, drums. Richard Willetts was the sound engineer, later joined by Mike Waller. John Lloyd did the lighting and Robbie Botwright was the band's Roadie.
Over the next decade MJM, as the band became known, gave many concerts of their original music, bringing the Gospel message into schools, colleges, church and prison situations.
The band's first concert was at St. Paul's Church, Battersea Rise, in the Summer of '72, where they were the warm-up band for Larry Norman at an event organised by Vic Ramsey. This was followed by taking part in an open air 'Jesus Festival' concert on Clapham Common, at Wembley Arena with US 'Jesus People' leader Arthur Blessitt, and at a festival in Southwark Cathedral.
In 1973, Don Feltham of ECHO (later ICC) studios in Eastbourne invited the band to record their first album 'Meet Jesus Music', which was recorded on a four-track TEAC tape recorder by Helmut Kaufmann. Trevor Stevens played bass on the recording. Our second album, 'Gold' was recorded for MGO's Dovetail label in 1975, and produced by John Pantry at Grosvenor Studios, Birmingham. Simon Dennis had by now joined the band and played bass on the second album.
MJM were regular guests on BBC Radio London's Gospel Music programme 'Soundout', hosted by Roger Hurrell, and performed 'live' on Capital Radio for Louis Alexander. They appeared in 'See You Sunday' on BBC TV and also in a number of programmes for Southern TV. In January 1976 the band took part in MGO's musical extravaganza 'Welcome to the family' at the Royal Albert Hall.

1976 - 78
By the end of 1976, the personnel had changed. Simon and Alison Dennis joined Angie on vocals, with Simon also playing bass. Dave (guitars) and Keith (piano) were joined by Bob McKay on saxes and flute with Jay Sullivan on drums.
While visiting the UK, Jimmy Snow, from Evangel Temple in Nashville, heard the band and invited us to his church, so a tour of the US was organised for the Summer of 1977. Ten adults and seven children flew by Laker Airways to America.
On the first part of the tour, organised by Dave and Dana Price, the band performed at various venues in Delaware, Maryland, Washington, Pennsylvania and at Opryland in Nashville, as guests on Jimmy Snow's 'Grand Ole Opry Gospel Time’.
From Nashville the band travelled to Costa Mesa, California, to play at Calvary Chapel before setting out on the 'Maranatha' tour, performing for the next three weeks along the West Coast as far as Vancouver, Canada.

1978 - 80
In 1978 there was another personnel change and Shiobain Corsie, Tim Moyler and Steve Buckley came in with Angie on vocals. Keith, Dave and Bob were joined by Alan Barker on drums, Pete Biggs on bass and Matthew Gillard on percussion.
During this period the band recorded the 12” single ‘You’d Be Amazed/Just One Touch’, produced by Graeme Quinton-Jones at Oakwood Studios, Herne Bay, Kent.
MJM headlined at Greenbelt in 1979, the line-up being:
Angie Routledge, Shiobain Corsie, Tim Moyler and Steve Buckley – Vocals
Dave Gillard – Lead guitar, Pete Biggs – Bass guitar, Keith Routledge – Keyboard,
Jay Sullivan – Drums, Matthew Gillard – Congas, Bob McKay – Sax/Flute,
Emma Routledge – Sax/Flute, Tony Hepworth – Trumpet/Flugel horn, Denis Blackham – Sound Engineer.
Later that year they took part in a series of evangelistic concerts in The Hague, Holland, with singer and evangelist Willy Hanssen.

MJM The Singles
For their appearance at Greenbelt the band released a 12” single ‘You’d Be Amazed’ with ‘Just One Touch’ featuring Shiobain Corsie and produced by Graeme Quinton-Jones at Oakwood Studios. Also produced by Graeme in 1980 was the song ‘Just A Little While’, which
was entered by music publisher Terry Noon for the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 1981 Denis Blackham recorded and produced the songs ‘Look Up’ and ‘Nothing In The World’ at his London studio.
Meet Jesus Music’s farewell concert took place in Manchester in the Summer of 1981.