Music
The recordings below are from original or master tapes of record albums
and published tapes I produced, from recordings I made during my travels,
or from tapes that musicians and friends sent me, as well as a few
other notable recordings from the same era.
All audio is in .mp3 format. Use the download button in the player to download the file the current track.
Right-click the “All tracks” link to download all tracks at once as a zip file.
Click to jump to: Con Ojos de Fe Can’t You See the New Day Canta Esa Melodía / Sing This Melody
Reli Pop New Garden groups Greg Dahl in Tehran Bahá’ís Around the World Singing 1972-73
Van Gilmer 1971 Program on the Feast 1972 Radio Bahá’í (Ecuador) Flight LP 1977
Soy Bahá’í, Soy Feliz Alas para el Corazon Dublin Conference 1982
I Wouldn’t Miss the Chance Yeast Mimi McClellan skits Charles Wolcott
Fire and Snow (record album 1970) 46.57 All tracks (60MB)
Con Ojos de Fe (With Eyes of Faith) (record album 1976) 53.09
All tracks (66MB)
Can’t You See the New Day; Bahá’ís in the South 1970
(cassette tape, U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust 20-C-8004) 53.14
All tracks (41MB)
Canta Esa Melodía / Sing This Melody (Booklet with words)
(cassette tape of music for children © (P) 1979 Gregory C. Dahl) 41.45
All tracks (76MB)
Chandler-Siegel Una Rosa es Hermosa (c. 1975) 2.44
(Other numbers from this tape were included on the Con Ojos de Fe album.)
Reli Pop (December 1971) 31.14 All tracks (40MB)
Music group organized by Reza Reyhani that toured northern Europe,
consisting of Linda Fields, Adrian Burns and Greg Dahl from the U.S.,
and Thomas Spalteholz (now Aiff), Hugo van Haasterd and Eddie Kollaart
from Europe. (Tape courtesy of Reza Reyhani.)
Talisman (1972) 15.30 All tracks (15MB)
Members of the Reli Pop group Linda Fields, Adrian Burns, Thomas
Spalteholz (now Aiff) and Hugo van Haasterd formed a professional group
called Talisman and produced a record album (the first two tracks here).
(Tape courtesy of Reza Reyhani.)
The Dawnbreakers Call of the Beloved 39.38
(Austrian group from the 1970s.) All tracks (36MB)
In July and August of 1972, two American-organized Bahá’í singing groups, New Garden North and New Garden South,
toured Europe and sang at the Bahá’í conferences in Padova, Italy, and in Plön, Germany.
See under the Europe 1966-82 tab for photographs.
All tracks (79MB)
This is a recording of the last concert by the New Garden South
group, in Hildesheim, Germany, on 24 August. The members of
the group at that time were Charles and Sandi Bullock, Greg Dahl,
Sheri Dressler, Bob Farley, Reinhart Meyer-Troeltsch, and Dan
Chadwick.
Mountain Song by Jon Anastasio (Luxembourg, summer 1972) 4.31
New Garden North group (summer 1972) 37.46 All tracks (48MB)
The members of the New Garden North group were Mike Wood,
Mark Harries, Steve Burleson and Jon Anastasio.
The New Garden groups closing the Youth Conference in Plön
(August 1972) 6.14
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Bahá’ís Around the World Singing 1972-73 compiled by Greg Dahl,
with intros 1:23.33 All tracks (70MB) Suhayl Safá’í, recorded in Iran,
was imprisoned in October 1982 and martyred on 1 May 1983.
Greg Dahl (Tehran, April 1973) 34.49 All tracks (71MB)
Songs (author when known): 1 Have You Heard the News, My Friend
(Fereydoun Jalali); 2 Building Bahá’í Communities (Fereydoun Jalali);
3 See the Happy People (Phil Lucas); 4 World Citizens (Phil Lucas);
5 The Morning Light (Doug Morgan); 6 The Welcome Song (Chris Ruhe);
7 Ye Are the Stars; 8 A Robin’s Song (Greg Dahl);
9 Ye Are All the Fruits of One Tree (Greg Dahl);
10 Glorious Day (Greg Dahl); 11 The Fund Song (Greg Dahl);
12 Shine Your Light on Me, Bahá’u’lláh; 13 Time
Greg Dahl (Raleigh, NC, December 1971) 29.07 All tracks (33MB)
Songs by Greg Dahl unless otherwise indicated: 1 Glorious Day;
2 Sing Praise; 3 Oh, Bahá’u’lláh; 4 Oh, Bahá’u’lláh; 5 In 1844;
6 One God, One Faith; 7 Praise to Bahá’u’lláh; 8 You Gotta Live
it Right (Fereydoun Jalali); 9 We Are Building a New World
(Fereydoun Jalali); 10 The Welcome Song (Chris Ruhe)
Creadell Haley Sing His Praises
(cassette tape, U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust?, no date) (10.38)
District Convention Raleigh NC 1971 (14.39)
Van Gilmer at the Southern Maryland teaching conference (1971?) (19.40)
All tracks 15MB
Cassandra Fowlkes (tape received from the Deep South Committee,
Canton Mississippi, January 1971) (8.52)
Program on the Feast for radio, Raleigh N.C., January 1972 (11.41)
Charles & Sandi Bullock, Fereydoun Jalali and Greg Dahl,
songs by Fereydoun Jalali
Wellspring group in Massachusetts, July 1974 (12.14) All tracks 15MB
Dick Grover recorded in Amherst, Massachusetts, July 5, 1975 (21.35)
(I Can’t Sing Very Well composed by Doris Kurzius, others unknown)
All tracks 24MB
Miscellaneous songs 1969-79 (21.28)
1 The Fund Song, written and sung by Greg Dahl, Vienna, VA February 1979;
2 Help Me Build a New World by Asif Fazal, sung by Greg Dahl, Vienna,
VA February 1979; 3 The Sun Has Come, sung by Greg Dahl;
4 La Justicia, sung by Greg Dahl; 5 Beauty of the Coming Day,
written and sung by Doug Morgan, Ft. Collins CO 1969,
with Allen Murray on the gut bucket; 6 The Whole Wide World Around,
written by Pete Jorgenson and sung by Chris Ruhe; 7 Lullaby (Spanish)
Soy Bahá’í, Soy Feliz, Canciones y Melodías de los Bahá’ís
(cassette tape compiled by the Continental Board of Counsellors of South
America and distributed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís
of Ecuador) Eight songs they used from Con Ojos De Fe and
Sing This Melody are not repeated here. 36.46 All tracks (33MB)
Alas para el Corazon, Canciones y Melodías de los Bahá’ís
(cassette tape compiled by the Continental Board of Counsellors of South
America and distributed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís
of Ecuador) 41.41 All tracks (37.5B)
Music of Radio Bahá’í (Ecuador) (36.00)
Flight LP 1977 (Bahá’í Publishing Trust 6-35-09) 1977 (42.45)
Music from the Dublin International Conference 1982 (June 1982) (54.09)
(Images International cassette IRL-13)
All tracks 43MB
I Wouldn’t Miss the Chance, a musical play by Mildred N. McClellan
(47.38) (recorded 26 August 1967; from a reel-to-reel copy of the original)
All 4 scenes 37MB
Yeast, a musical drama by Mildred N. McClellan
Performed in Cambridge, Mass. 9 June 1974 (1h24)
Performed at Green Acre, 11 August 1974 (1h24)
Also performed at the St. Louis conference in August 1974,
of which there is unfortunately no recording.
Music from skits by Mildred N. McClellan (11.20)
(recorded 4 December 1973 in her home)
Other music by Mimi McClellan can be found at www.mcclellanmusic.org. Her musical play The Education of Henry Halifax can be downloaded for free from bahaimusicstore.com.
Music of Charles Wolcott (later a member of the Universal House of Justice)
including From the Sweet-scented Streams and Blessed Is the Spot (17.12)
Charles Wolcott at the piano and Val Sage singing (recorded 16 June 1957
in the home of Joyce & Arthur Dahl; from the reel-to-reel original)
All 4 tracks 12MB