So glad to find this on-line. We have a few albums. So glad!
@scrippslarry3 ай бұрын
What an incredible arrangement and performance!
@davehobbs61438 ай бұрын
so descriptive of time in His presence...
@beeswan977510 ай бұрын
I think Velvet was one of the best vocal albums ever recorded.
@davehobbs614311 ай бұрын
There'll never be another Derric Johnson and ReGeneration, including musicians.
@mikebernard13856 ай бұрын
Your words here are much appreciated Dave. We had a great time singing Derric’s incredible arrangements.
@bferguson927711 ай бұрын
They were fantastic. How I wish they'd been reissued in the CD format. The only CD'S I could find were some Christmas CD albums. It seems everything else was on LP's, and those are a rare find as it is.
@jimbrewer9279 Жыл бұрын
I was privileged to see Regeneration in the 70’s at a music conference The Land Between The Lakes in Tennessee, I believe! Never forgot them and still have an album!!!😇😇
@frogprice88692 жыл бұрын
I have been a Regen fan since 1975. I miss groups like this today. They were polished and professional but more, they were the highest caliber of kids.
@davidhancock72022 жыл бұрын
I’m wanting to reconnect with Mike who was second from the left guy in this song.
@davidhancock72022 жыл бұрын
If anyone from this group monitors this channel, I’m looking to reconnect with one of the guys that sang in this particular year. He had a line about the blue in the flag in the first song. His first name was Mike and I think he was from CA. He’s the second guy from the left in the formation. I can also still hear in my head the bass singer saying he was from Gastonia, North Carolina!!
@davidhancock72022 жыл бұрын
I saw this group multiple times in the 70’s. My parents befriended one of the guys named Mike. He sang the line “jumping’ in the swimming hole” on America Is. Can anyone point me to where he is now? I believe he was from California. We live in East TN.
@davehobbs22172 жыл бұрын
46 years ago love it...won’t be another Derric Johnson
@davehobbs22172 жыл бұрын
So beautiful and true to pray. Thank you Pastor Derric and ReGeneration. Mrs. Susie, your voice paints The beauty of Christ!
@piarco2 жыл бұрын
Back in the beginnings of Evangelical "Christians" becoming right wing-nuts, and leaving Jesus and His message.
@piarco2 жыл бұрын
Jesus meets Lawrence Welk.
@carolpatterson35103 жыл бұрын
I heard this group in 1979 at our church in Bryan, Texas. Had NEVER heard anything like them. Truly a vocal orchestra!
@waynekendall76483 жыл бұрын
Two words describe Regeneration: excellence and classy. Everything they did was incredibly good
@julievalencia86333 жыл бұрын
They came to Kansas City to sing at Youth For Christ in the 70's and one of my favorite songs was "I Am". Please help me find this one, it's as powerful today as it was back then!
@benjaminpastrana96624 жыл бұрын
I performed I promised to love in spanish! Puerto Rico
@philglisson51864 жыл бұрын
No group before or since has had this sound. Awesome blend and harmony. They came to my father's church twice.
@philglisson51864 жыл бұрын
I had a college music professor tell me that in his opinion, this group was the closest thing to vocal perfection he had ever heard. There are no words to tell you how much their music has meant to me.
@mikebernard13856 ай бұрын
Wow…. Thank you so much for sharing this. Singing Derric’s arrangements with these wonderful singers was a highlight of my life. I was in Re’Gen for only two years from 1974-1976. (We recorded the first Christmas In Velvet as well as others). I pray all is well with you and yours.
@philglisson51866 ай бұрын
Mike, thanks for writing. I got to hear Re'Gen three times in person - once at Colonial Baptist Church in Memphis, TN, and twice at Leawood Baptist Church in Memphis. There has been no group since quite like Re'Gen.
@theun5givenofficial2044 жыл бұрын
This group is our greatest inspiration as a acapella group.
@lazybelphegore67485 жыл бұрын
You came to our church when I was young and we had your records. Do you have a recording of “I Believe” or “A Rich Man am I”? I remember we had two of the girls spent the night with us. They were so sweet.
@samonetaz5 жыл бұрын
Grotesque in its earnestness, Regeneration is truly a relic of a past expressing its dying gasp, the specter of which haunts us to this day.
@HarringtonTribal5 жыл бұрын
This makes me so happy. I wish more people knew that this group would eventually morph into The Voices of Liberty. There's even sections of "America" that are still sung today under the Rotunda in the American Pavillon. And the arrangement of This Land is Your Land is practically identical to the current version. But - I secretly wish the Voices of Liberty would do this choreography. (It's so terribly 70s!! I LOVE IT!) But it's sad that the days of a full orchestra backing a vocal ensemble are dead and gone.
@jackfrost23116 жыл бұрын
I love you Pastor Derric
@greenrefrigerator6 жыл бұрын
I will never forget this group. They performed at my church in Stuart, FL around the mid 70's and they were absolutely awesome. I doubt Disney would invite groups like this to perform at their parks today in 2018 because the Disney Corporation of today is vastly different from what it was in the 1970's.
@mikebernard13853 жыл бұрын
Re'Gen was hired permanently to perform in the American pavilion at EPCOT when it opened in 1984. The group was renamed the Voices of Liberty. They have been there ever since and still sing many of the same arrangements that The Re'Generation performed. That said, there are no performances these days due to the pandemic. Hopefully it will be over soon. (I remember singing in a church in Stuart but I don't remember the name of it.)
@greenrefrigerator6 жыл бұрын
They came to my church around the mid 70's (First Baptist Church of Stuart, FL). I was 12-14 years old at the time and didn't yet have the appreciation I do today for their music, but I remember them coming to our church and how people were so moved by their unbelievable talents. They truly were a remarkable group of people and their music spoke to many, Many, MANY thousands of people over the years. Great memories :>)
@anr6137 жыл бұрын
I was actually there for this performance, or at least one of them. At the time I was working at WDW and was one of the Kids of the Kingdom, who were performing during that same time on the Tomorrowland stage. I got to be good friends with Gale and had a great conversation with Pastor Derric. I'm sad to say I lost touch with Gale after I left Disneyworld.
@HarringtonTribal8 жыл бұрын
Re'Generation was always the pinnacle of vocal blending and intricate choral harmony. However - I am LOVING this choreography. I'm planning on memorizing it and performing it at my daughter's wedding!
@neilmasiba53998 жыл бұрын
God bless Derric Johnson and the Re'generation..
@GlauciaCarvalho9 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
@CatsJams10 жыл бұрын
Never before, throughout history, has the need ever been greater: Remember. Alas, even with the help of the Great Google, I can find neither the lyrics nor the author of this song.
@walterdrew26155 жыл бұрын
I believe this was written by Derric Johnson and published by Lillanas Music.
@trouble013110 жыл бұрын
My mother has all their albums. I was able to convert them to CD, and LOVE listening to songs from my childhood!
@CatsJams9 жыл бұрын
Nicky, I assume you refer to the albums of Re'Generation? I totally LOVE the music of Derric Johnson and Re'Generation -- but find it harder and harder to find online. Might you have a youtube channel and/or upload your CDs to the web? The older I grow the more I love the harmonies of Derric's arrangements!
@tanyadixon79804 жыл бұрын
Please; can you get permission to post them on You Tube; I am a massive fan of their vocal art❤️
@julievalencia86333 жыл бұрын
I'm looking for a song called "I Am" by the Re'Generation,
@chilltownguy11 жыл бұрын
This group was the first gospel group i heard...my great Aunt gave me the LP (with Desert Pete on it as well as this one) and thought it was a lame give to give to a kid, but i later listened to it and even before i became a Christian i enjoyed it. some thirty years later i still think about that album (which i still have), but don't have a record player since everything now is digital. thanks for posting this
@dengland123411 жыл бұрын
well done guys.
@scrippslarry11 жыл бұрын
Also Debbie Beal, has a very Karen Carpenter quality to her voice. Just all OUTSTANDING!
@scrippslarry11 жыл бұрын
Great!! I never saw you guys in person! I would buy as many of these videos as I can get my hands on!!!
@MATTYMATTEL4412 жыл бұрын
ReGen6alum which guy were you in the group? Are you the one with the cute smile and said "The ReGeneration" at the end?
@jasonnadal97214 жыл бұрын
7 years and still no answer. Are you even still alive? If you are then you are a bit of a jerk for taking this long to respond.
@mikebernard13853 жыл бұрын
@@jasonnadal9721 Hey hi Jason. I haven't been back to see this video since I uploaded it years ago. My apologies to MATTY and you. I'm the second guy from the left. There is a video of our full program at the MK also on KZread now. To MATTY, there are two members of our group that have passed away. Merv is the one you asked about. Gale is the other. We missed them both dearly.
@theeasybeats591312 жыл бұрын
I saw them Feb 1972 Sarasota, FL
@joniseque13 жыл бұрын
This is so touching. One of the singers is/was my cousin. I miss him so much.
@P51ride13 жыл бұрын
The radio shorts that I mentioned were "America Is" and "Christmas Is"
@P51ride13 жыл бұрын
Have the older radio short spots been released on CD? I miss earing them. They were and are a wonderful history lesson about the best this country has to offer.
@pianodon13 жыл бұрын
What a group! Excellent. And great soloist.
@angelahunt13 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting this. I've longed to hear this song again for years!
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so unique...forever part of my life...
So glad to find this on-line. We have a few albums. So glad!
What an incredible arrangement and performance!
so descriptive of time in His presence...
I think Velvet was one of the best vocal albums ever recorded.
There'll never be another Derric Johnson and ReGeneration, including musicians.
Your words here are much appreciated Dave. We had a great time singing Derric’s incredible arrangements.
They were fantastic. How I wish they'd been reissued in the CD format. The only CD'S I could find were some Christmas CD albums. It seems everything else was on LP's, and those are a rare find as it is.
I was privileged to see Regeneration in the 70’s at a music conference The Land Between The Lakes in Tennessee, I believe! Never forgot them and still have an album!!!😇😇
I have been a Regen fan since 1975. I miss groups like this today. They were polished and professional but more, they were the highest caliber of kids.
I’m wanting to reconnect with Mike who was second from the left guy in this song.
If anyone from this group monitors this channel, I’m looking to reconnect with one of the guys that sang in this particular year. He had a line about the blue in the flag in the first song. His first name was Mike and I think he was from CA. He’s the second guy from the left in the formation. I can also still hear in my head the bass singer saying he was from Gastonia, North Carolina!!
I saw this group multiple times in the 70’s. My parents befriended one of the guys named Mike. He sang the line “jumping’ in the swimming hole” on America Is. Can anyone point me to where he is now? I believe he was from California. We live in East TN.
46 years ago love it...won’t be another Derric Johnson
So beautiful and true to pray. Thank you Pastor Derric and ReGeneration. Mrs. Susie, your voice paints The beauty of Christ!
Back in the beginnings of Evangelical "Christians" becoming right wing-nuts, and leaving Jesus and His message.
Jesus meets Lawrence Welk.
I heard this group in 1979 at our church in Bryan, Texas. Had NEVER heard anything like them. Truly a vocal orchestra!
Two words describe Regeneration: excellence and classy. Everything they did was incredibly good
They came to Kansas City to sing at Youth For Christ in the 70's and one of my favorite songs was "I Am". Please help me find this one, it's as powerful today as it was back then!
I performed I promised to love in spanish! Puerto Rico
No group before or since has had this sound. Awesome blend and harmony. They came to my father's church twice.
I had a college music professor tell me that in his opinion, this group was the closest thing to vocal perfection he had ever heard. There are no words to tell you how much their music has meant to me.
Wow…. Thank you so much for sharing this. Singing Derric’s arrangements with these wonderful singers was a highlight of my life. I was in Re’Gen for only two years from 1974-1976. (We recorded the first Christmas In Velvet as well as others). I pray all is well with you and yours.
Mike, thanks for writing. I got to hear Re'Gen three times in person - once at Colonial Baptist Church in Memphis, TN, and twice at Leawood Baptist Church in Memphis. There has been no group since quite like Re'Gen.
This group is our greatest inspiration as a acapella group.
You came to our church when I was young and we had your records. Do you have a recording of “I Believe” or “A Rich Man am I”? I remember we had two of the girls spent the night with us. They were so sweet.
Grotesque in its earnestness, Regeneration is truly a relic of a past expressing its dying gasp, the specter of which haunts us to this day.
This makes me so happy. I wish more people knew that this group would eventually morph into The Voices of Liberty. There's even sections of "America" that are still sung today under the Rotunda in the American Pavillon. And the arrangement of This Land is Your Land is practically identical to the current version. But - I secretly wish the Voices of Liberty would do this choreography. (It's so terribly 70s!! I LOVE IT!) But it's sad that the days of a full orchestra backing a vocal ensemble are dead and gone.
I love you Pastor Derric
I will never forget this group. They performed at my church in Stuart, FL around the mid 70's and they were absolutely awesome. I doubt Disney would invite groups like this to perform at their parks today in 2018 because the Disney Corporation of today is vastly different from what it was in the 1970's.
Re'Gen was hired permanently to perform in the American pavilion at EPCOT when it opened in 1984. The group was renamed the Voices of Liberty. They have been there ever since and still sing many of the same arrangements that The Re'Generation performed. That said, there are no performances these days due to the pandemic. Hopefully it will be over soon. (I remember singing in a church in Stuart but I don't remember the name of it.)
They came to my church around the mid 70's (First Baptist Church of Stuart, FL). I was 12-14 years old at the time and didn't yet have the appreciation I do today for their music, but I remember them coming to our church and how people were so moved by their unbelievable talents. They truly were a remarkable group of people and their music spoke to many, Many, MANY thousands of people over the years. Great memories :>)
I was actually there for this performance, or at least one of them. At the time I was working at WDW and was one of the Kids of the Kingdom, who were performing during that same time on the Tomorrowland stage. I got to be good friends with Gale and had a great conversation with Pastor Derric. I'm sad to say I lost touch with Gale after I left Disneyworld.
Re'Generation was always the pinnacle of vocal blending and intricate choral harmony. However - I am LOVING this choreography. I'm planning on memorizing it and performing it at my daughter's wedding!
God bless Derric Johnson and the Re'generation..
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never before, throughout history, has the need ever been greater: Remember. Alas, even with the help of the Great Google, I can find neither the lyrics nor the author of this song.
I believe this was written by Derric Johnson and published by Lillanas Music.
My mother has all their albums. I was able to convert them to CD, and LOVE listening to songs from my childhood!
Nicky, I assume you refer to the albums of Re'Generation? I totally LOVE the music of Derric Johnson and Re'Generation -- but find it harder and harder to find online. Might you have a youtube channel and/or upload your CDs to the web? The older I grow the more I love the harmonies of Derric's arrangements!
Please; can you get permission to post them on You Tube; I am a massive fan of their vocal art❤️
I'm looking for a song called "I Am" by the Re'Generation,
This group was the first gospel group i heard...my great Aunt gave me the LP (with Desert Pete on it as well as this one) and thought it was a lame give to give to a kid, but i later listened to it and even before i became a Christian i enjoyed it. some thirty years later i still think about that album (which i still have), but don't have a record player since everything now is digital. thanks for posting this
well done guys.
Also Debbie Beal, has a very Karen Carpenter quality to her voice. Just all OUTSTANDING!
Great!! I never saw you guys in person! I would buy as many of these videos as I can get my hands on!!!
ReGen6alum which guy were you in the group? Are you the one with the cute smile and said "The ReGeneration" at the end?
7 years and still no answer. Are you even still alive? If you are then you are a bit of a jerk for taking this long to respond.
@@jasonnadal9721 Hey hi Jason. I haven't been back to see this video since I uploaded it years ago. My apologies to MATTY and you. I'm the second guy from the left. There is a video of our full program at the MK also on KZread now. To MATTY, there are two members of our group that have passed away. Merv is the one you asked about. Gale is the other. We missed them both dearly.
I saw them Feb 1972 Sarasota, FL
This is so touching. One of the singers is/was my cousin. I miss him so much.
The radio shorts that I mentioned were "America Is" and "Christmas Is"
Have the older radio short spots been released on CD? I miss earing them. They were and are a wonderful history lesson about the best this country has to offer.
What a group! Excellent. And great soloist.
Thanks so much for posting this. I've longed to hear this song again for years!