Richard Roberts

Artist: Richard Roberts

LP: My Father's Favorite Songs
Song: "When He Reached Down His Hand"
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When he reached his hand down my WHAT!? This 1968 debut album from televangelist Oral Roberts' son Richard brings two questions immediately to mind: 1. How on Earth did someone like Oral Roberts produce such a sexy hunk of a son? 2. Who the hell names their kid "Oral?" Anyway, you can read all about teenage-heartthrob-turned-Vegas-superstar-hopeful-turned-ORU-President-turned-former-ORU-President Richard Roberts here, and these notes are from the back of the LP:

"My Father's Favorite Songs"

Richard Roberts is a young talent that promises to surge

into the forefront of sacred music. Here he has combined

old hymns which have formed the core of a 20-year world-

wide ministry, with exciting new songs and arrange-

ments written especially for this album.

[ Richard Roberts: surging to the forefront. ]

Richard's is a voice singing with the understanding that

talent, beyond being an end to itself, is a gift to be given

freely to others. It is part of his heritage that he sees music

as an inspiring ministry all its own. In the fluent ministry of

Richard's talent, he becomes not only the voice of the rich

grassroots beauty of Oral Roberts Crusades...he begins

to express his own depth of commitment to Christ.

The songs presented here are contemporary and powerful

in arrangement; yet they bear witness to an age-old

simplicity of Gospel. Interwoven with both old and

new is the theme of man's need and God's redemptive

plan. Without exception each song presents a moment

of personal confrontation between you—the listener—

and a very touchable substance of faith.

[ Richard Roberts: a very touchable substance. ]

In "My Father's Favorite Songs" Richard affirms the beauty

and simplicity of the old gospel hymns and adds a new

dynamic all his own. This album is the introduction of a

striking talent which, before long, should be riding the

crest of a vibrant new current in sacred music.