Search - Children of Day :: Come to the Waters

Originally released in 1971 on Maranatha! Music, this digitally remastered release includes a full band bio, lyrics, and is limited to just 1000 copies! For fans of Simon & Garfunkel, Love Song, Peter, Paul, & Mary, early Phil Keaggy. This is where it all started. Children of the Day should probably be viewed as the world's first Jesus Music back then. It was an album that defined the Jesus movement as well as any other album ever would and it became a national phenomenon. As one historian puts it, "Children of the Day were first--and Love Song was about ten minutes behind." They were teenage musicians -- that could not help but sing and write songs in the musical idioms most readily available to them, the California sounds that they heard emanating from their transistor radios. Musically, they and their peers (especially Love Song) provided some of the single most authentic moments in American music of the early '70s.
They will always be best remembered for one incredible song: "For Those Tears I Died" (first found on The Everlastin' Living Jesus Music Concert compilation lp and sometimes called "Come to the Waters"). An absolute masterpiece, written by a 16-year-old (Marsha Stevens), it expresses adolescent piety better than any other Christian song ever written. They were integrally related to the ministry of Costa Mesa's Calvary Chapel ("ground zero" for the Jesus movement). The group even borrowed $900 for Pastor Chuck Smith to record their debut masterpiece at Abbey Sound Ltd in LA. It was engineered by Buck Herring (2nd Chapter of Acts).