Talk:Maranatha! Music

Lonnie Frisbee

Yes, Lonnie Frisbee was involved with Calvary Chapel. Yes, Lonnie was involved in the growth of the church. Yes, Calvary Chapel was the parent of the record label. However, there is no connection with Lonnie and the founding of the label. There is no connection with Lonnie and the bands who were signed to the label. There is no need to continue to insert his presence into the article unless you plan to explain how Lonnie helped found the label. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:21, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I thought I had but will try to do it again. In short Lonnie converted those musicians as well as the vast majority of all the hippies in the early years of Calvary. Lonnie help dictate how the services ran and that music, the language of the youth culture, was predominant in the services and was used to praise and worship. It was the House of Miracles chain of coffee houses - whose success was due to Lonnie's work at recruiting and converting more hippies that populated and help structure these communes. The same communes who were then setting up outreach Christian rock concerts, the first of their kind, with Lonnie's guidance. There very well would have been no huge growth in Calvary and by extension the House of Miracles and the hippie musicians who formed the first Christian rock bands who then became Maranatha Music. Chuck Smith was a businessman, Lonnie was pure evangelism, he never got paid for his work. Haley 03:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Moot point. He did not form the label. It would be like referencing Timothy Leary with any psychedelic rock band or label. He didn't form the label. He did not front any money for it, that was Smith's role. He didn't encourage the bands to form the label, that was one of the members of Children of the Light who approached Smith. In short, Frisbee helped the church grow, but did not help the label to form. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:22, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Also, you're assuming that Frisbee converted the musicians. You would have to look at the story for each of the bands who were on the original label. Some may have been converted by Frisbee. Some may have been converted by Smith or others at the church. Many (especially those in Daniel Amos, Darrell Mansfield, and Sweet Comfort Band) were Christians who simply found the church as a venue to play. Some of them only attended the church or its satellites.

Also, there were no communes at CC to the best of my kowledge. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:27, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Finally, Di Sabatino doesn't mention this in the documentary on Frisbee nor is it broached in his book The Jesus People Movement although both Frisbee and the label are mentioned separately. You're offering WP:OR suggesting that Frisbee had anything to do with founding the label. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:30, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

We apparently disagree greatly so I will again look to what the sources state and see where it goes from there. Haley 09:03, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

It's not a disagreement, it's a fact. This article is about the founding of the label. Frisbee is not an influence in the founding of the label although he is an influence in the rapid expansion of the church out of which the label formed. By your logic, Jesus himself founded the label. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:07, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

As I said I'll rely on reliable sources for my facts instead. Haley 09:50, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

You have so far and still manage to come up with incorrect conclusions. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:57, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Maranatha! Singers discography

I added another Maranatha Singers album release 20 Years of Hope: 1971-1991 from 1991 that was missing, which I have in my collection. But I'm unsure of where the listing should be, so I placed in on the bottom. Feel free to move it if it's wrong. Solbu (talk) 21:34, 7 January 2015 (UTC)