GOSPEL CONNECTION
The Story Behind The Recording of “The Gospel Connection.”
The title, “Gospel Connection,” was first used in 1979 as the name and theme of the official Newsletter Publication of Gospel Music Ministries International. “Gospel Connection,” theme song, was written and recorded to be used at all Live Presentations, and as the introductory and closing music for GMMI radio and television broadcasts, and other related Media. Needing a theme song for the "Gospel Connection" Radio Broadcast, Rev. Fulton wrote the song while sitting at his dining room table with his wife, pounding out the rhythm with his knuckles on the table top. He immediately called the recording studio “Lost In Music” for a session and recorded the song three days before “the Gospel Connection” broadcast was scheduled to be aired for the first time on WYJZ Radio, the sister station, at the time of WAMO in Pittsburgh. The original recording was performed by Rev. Fulton on organ and vocals, and with studio musicians helping on guitar, drums, and background. The current recorded version heard on this website was performed by GMMI participants, Bob Breen on electronic drums, the late Rev. Floyd Beck on guitar, Rev. Fulton on piano, organ, bass, and as lead singer. Background singers include Rev. Fulton, his wife, Pastor Estelle Fulton, daughter Cara Fulton, Evangelist Brenda Collins and Rev. James Lattaker, who also appears as pianist-singer with “the Bobby Fulton-James Lattaker Project,” a piano-organ duo. The website's Photo Gallery features photographs of members who participated in the current recording, along with other singers and musicians who have participated as members of the group over the years, along with photographs of the various ministries that have been birthed from the GMMI-Gospel Connection Outreach. All has been possible with the teamwork of GMMI Gospel Connection Outreach Missionaries. Today, the GMMI-Gospel Connection Outreach ministry continues and the music plays on. The full length recording of "Gospel Connection" is available on Rev. Fulton's "BIRTHDAY OF THE YEAR" Ep CD which also features the new Christmas single "It's Birthday Time Again," and it is also included on Rev. Fulton's CD "THE GOSPEL CONNECTION" - OLD, NEW and TRUE. If you have not yet done it, and desire a newness in your life, we welcome you to let us help you make your "Gospel Connection" today!
(LYRICS)
Gospel Connection
(CHORUS)
HE’S MY GOSPEL… CONNECTION
HAVE YOU MADE… YOUR CONNECTION TODAY?
HE’S MY GOSPEL… CONNECTION
HAVE YOU MADE… YOUR CONNECTION TODAY?
I WANNA KNOW, HAVE YOU DONE IT?
TELL ME NOW, HAVE YOU DONE IT?
(v. 1)
WHEN YOU AWOKE, DID YOU KNEEL AND PRAY?
THANK THE LORD FOR ANOTHER DAY?
WHEN HE ALLOWED YOU TO RISE AGAIN
DID YOU THINK JUST TO PRAISE HIS NAME?
DON’T YOU KNOW THAT HE LOVES YOU SO?
IF I WAS YOU, I WOULD GRAB A HOLD
I WOULD NEVER EVER LET HIM GO
HE’S THE LIFELINE OF OUR SOUL
HIS NAME IS JESUS…MR. WONDERFUL
HE’S SO MARVELOUS…HE’S EVERYTHING TO ME
(Chorus)
HE’S MY GOSPEL… CONNECTION
HAVE YOU MADE… YOUR CONNECTION TODAY?
HE’S MY GOSPEL… CONNECTION
HAVE YOU MADE… YOUR CONNECTION TODAY?
I WANNA KNOW, HAVE YOU DONE IT?
TELL ME NOW, HAVE YOU DONE IT?
(V. 2)
HE’S THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR
AND HIS LIGHT BEAMS NEAR AND FAR
ALL POWER IS IN HIS NAME
GIVING LIFE IS HIS CLAIM TO FAME
DON’T YOU KNOW THAT HE LOVES YOU SO
IF I WAS YOU, I WOULD GRAB A HOLD
I WOULD NEVER EVER LET HIM GO
HE’S THE LIFELINE OF OUR SOUL
HIS NAME IS JESUS…MR. WONDERFUL
HE’S SO MARVELOUS…HE’S EVERYTHING TO ME
(Repeat the Chorus until the End)
HE’S MY GOSPEL… CONNECTION
HAVE YOU MADE… YOUR CONNECTION TODAY?