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J.'s Vision for ApologetiX in 2024
Fri., Jan. 26. 2024 1:43pm EST
J. Jackson, lead singer and lyricist for ApologetiX here again.
This coming Monday is the 10th anniversary of when we started doing regular singles as part of our "downloads for a donation" series. Although we had high hopes at the outset of this endeavor, God has exceeded our expectations: During that 10-year span, He has enabled us to release 473 songs and 38 CDs!
This year, we have four more CDs planned. The first is one we already told you was in the works, Unchained Medley. It'll be our 73rd CD and will include new, full-length versions of all 10 parodies that first appeared in the '80s medley, "Octagon but Not Forgotten," on our Wise Up and Rock CD in 2011.
If you've been watching our singles closely over the past seven months, you know there's only one song from the medley we have yet to redo and release. We're planning to record vocals for it next week. Unchained Medley will also include two other parodies of songs from the early '80s that we released in November 2023, "Magi" and "Little Jesus."
What's next after that? Well, three of the six tracks on our last three singles are slated for our 74th CD: "The Book-o-Romans," "Looked on the Ceiling," and "You'll Succeed." The songs we spoofed for those were all #1 hits, and each of them was a remake of a Top 10 hit from the '60s. But they have something else in common that's even more important:
They all were hits in 1974. And they're earmarked for our 74th CD, which we plan to call ApologetiX '74. You math whizzes out there may have noticed that 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of 1974. That was the year I turned 10, and it's my all-time favorite year for pop music. It featured some of the cheesiest, corniest hit singles ever, and I love 'em.
I knew all the words to quite a few songs on the radio back in '74, and we plan to redo a dozen of them. I don't know all the words to the parodies yet, but I recorded vocals for a fourth one this week, and the lyrics are basically done for two others. And I have titles and some lines for just about all of the rest. These tunes were big hits; it'll be a blast.
Another CD we're working on will feature (although not exclusively) songs about certain kings of Israel and Judah. It's called Zedekiah, Hezekiah, Jeroboam & Other Guys. We released one of the songs in December, "Zedekiah," and there's one about David we hope to release in February. Lyrics, drums, keyboards, and guitars are already done.
I don't know whether that will be our third or fourth CD of 2024. We have a title for the remaining CD, too, but I'm not telling you it yet or anything about the contents. Hey, we've gotta have some secrets, right?
And don't forget the big concert we're playing at Immortal Fest in Ohio on September 1. Since announcing it last week, we've heard from fans all over the United States and even Canada who are planning or hoping to come. If you missed the article with the details, you can read more at http://apologetix.com/news/news-details.php?news_id=4954
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