Amazing Grace - Wintley Phipps

yaniska100 Says:

Oct 25, 2009 - (Part..2) NOBODY..NOBODY.. black or white' cares about that Crap! They simply want to hear a good worship song! Not learn about the (unimportance) of a piano key colour!! Only black ppl do and say shit like that... Whites just get on with the worship song! So dont give me all tht 'Pastor Phipps Crap.. Look at the faces of those sat behind him when he spews all that irrelevant colour crap.. They all look at him with disgust! WAKE UP MAN!!!

yaniska100 Says:

Oct 25, 2009 - (Part..1) Look Mr.... Open your ears, and Listen to what the man was insinuating. Pastor or not.. In his implication' the black keys was the PRIME inportance here, over the white Keys! The white keys cld not have done it but for the black! Miles Monroe did the same thing in London' when he took the mike and began BORING us all with the blk slavery and his surname being not his.

Thomasfiddle Says:

Oct 26, 2009 - Part 1 Hello! I just woke up! It's morning now. Think we agree that the good pastor was trying to entertain and not to educate. It's just that we have different ways of putting it. If you should point out that the slaves didn't have pianos I would say that you are probably right! :)

Thomasfiddle Says:

Oct 26, 2009 - Part 2 The fact that the melody wasn't composed by the Captain, since it was being conected with the hymn much later is also interesting. The tune was known as "New Brittain" and is believed to be an old Irish och Scotish pipe tune. So even if Captain Newton had encountered black-key-singing African people, that wouldn't have changed a note in the song.

yaniska100 Says:

Oct 26, 2009 - Hahahaha! Thoman' my good friend.... You're Good! I like You. Have a good day Dude! x

Thomasfiddle Says:

Oct 27, 2009 - Oh.., blush. I did have a good day indeed. Thanks for that, my friend! May Freyja smile upon you!

sharkoer Says:

Oct 30, 2009 - stupid complit

toonful Says:

Nov 2, 2009 - did you see him sing it,at the prayer service,in jan. when president obama took office...

jammies3 Says:

Nov 2, 2009 - No, I was doing something important.....and I was not going to interrupt it for that.....

sweetie98 Says:

Nov 3, 2009 - its sad. over 200 years and the ignorance continues.. first of all no educator or scholar of any kind would use wikipedia because of the errors it contains. number 2, i used to teach black history and know for a fact john newton wrote the lyrics but not the music and third it took white and black people to make this country what it is today and no amount of anger or hatred is going to change that fact. if I regard iniquity in my heart the lord will not hear me--Psalm 66:18

allenwardell Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - Wonderful ! You are a spirit- filled man, who loves the Lord.,and God has gifted you with your voice......

vixxy02 Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - It's a traditional EFIK song of lamentation, that was sung by the captured EFIK slaves, in Calabar, Nigeria, during the slave trade. We still sing it today, usually at funerals. Newton heard the slaves singing it, and wrote his own English lyrics, but it's indeed an EFIK song!

vixxy02 Says:

Nov 6, 2009 - @Thomas you're wrong, it's a traditional EFIK song, from Calabar in todays Nigeria. It was a song of lamentation, and when Newton wrote English lyrics, it was 1st played in England on a fiddle, then on Scottish bagpipes. My late grandmother used to sing it with the original Efik lyrics, and i asked her why she translated them differently in our language, and she told me those were the original lyrics,but that the English translated it wrongly...that was over 30yrs ago long before the film!

TheHonBun Says:

Nov 16, 2009 - Flat out AMAZING! Truly AWESOME.

sikkoindahouse Says:

Nov 16, 2009 - May God bless you, and your voice.

vjanik Says:

Nov 17, 2009 - "Can they prove it authoritatively of irish celtic decent by clear,conclusive evidence?" this? coming from a religious person? how ironic..

LE3C Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - Lovely song, Phipps sings passionately,so why this MYTH? Newton supported slavery years after converting to Christianity.He wrote the words, which were set to the melody years AFTER his death. He never heard the song. The Pentatonic scale is not unique to "black notes" on a piano, it can be played on any key on any instrument anyway the keyboards in those days often had black and white keys reversed. There is no historical reference to a Slave Scale nor any reason for that title. Nonsense.

LE3C Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - You may be right about the Calabar melody, after all the Pentatonic scale is ancient and common to Africa, Asia and Europe but the point is that Newton did NOT WRITE the song. He wrote the words and they were set to the melody years after his death.

vixxy02 Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - @LE3C aah I see! PEACE!!

NewVoiceStudioItal Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - But it is not TRUE. The "Slave Scale" is Mr. Phipps' invention. Among the settlers were some excellent musicians, composers and music historians. If the musicians had actually had the chance to hear the African people singing their music, they would have recognized the same ancient pentatonic scale that was common in Asian, Greek, Celtic, etc. folk music. Why would such a commonly used scale be associated only with slaves? Why does everything HAVE to be so "APPROPRIATE" in order to believe?

NewVoiceStudioItal Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - Striking if you don't like thinking or you need extra help in believing. Pentatonic scales can also be played on all white notes. AND a pentatonic scale can be played on a bagpipe or a tin whistle that has no keys at all, black OR white. I think it is silly and purposely confusing and therefore demeaning. What a shame.

orangesoda1211 Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - ya but the black notes are more somber which reflexs the tone of negro spirituals

yoganandarita Says:

Nov 19, 2009 - P O W E R F U L I N D E E D

conceil8 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - . LEAVE YOUR CHURCH! (faith in Christ alone is all that matters) DO NOT BUY, DO NOT SELL (just help for free; give for free). DESTROY ALL THE WORKS OF THE BEAST (be perfectly holy) .

conceil8 Says:

Nov 20, 2009 - . I challenge all the Christians in the entire planet -layman and church leaders alike- to pray God that the volcanic eruption I stated below would not happen: "Before this year will be over, 2 volcanic eruptions will shake the United States of America. The name of these volcanoes had something to do with faith." If despite of your prayer these faithful volcanoes had erupted, then, know and understand that God is with me, therefore you are under obligation to listen to me .