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Thursday, January 7, "Dear Mr. Jesus" by PowerSource Solo The group would sing together with various soloists being featured on the tracks. While the album may have found some fans in the Christian music community, for the most part the album came and went.

Somehow, a copy of the album happened to be on-hand at a Tampa radio station and someone there began to play the track "Dear Mr.

Jesus," which featured a lead vocal from 6-year-old Sharon Batts in the late fall of ' The song was about a young girl writing a letter to Jesus after seeing a news report about child abuse on TV. The tune began to get some attention, but what really pushed the song in a bigger way was a tragic event that happened in New York City in November of '87 see below.

After details of the event came to light, a radio station in New York picked up "Dear Mr. Jesus" and put it on the air. The response was overwhelming. Soon there were requests for copies of the album since a single had not been issued out. As the song caught on in more markets, a single was finally printed. Airplay combined with sales allowed the tune to debut on the Pop chart. The message song wouldn't get too far, but it made an impression. The album would reach 10 on the Contemporary Christian chart.

Batts was then courted by record labels and two years later she did record the solo album Someone to Love Me with PowerSource supporting, but it didn't get anywhere. It seems that later in life Batts remained in Texas, became a style consultant, and wrote a book on how to make clothes look good on you. ReduxReview : This is a difficult song to rate. On one hand, how can you say anything negative towards a tune about child abuse sung by a kid?

Just saying you don't like it could bring the wrath of other people who think you are insensitive and don't get it. Basically, you are a monster. On the other hand, regardless of the subject matter it is still a musical piece that is open to criticism.

That point about the Flaming Lips is hilariously true. But could they top the singer coming in at the end and belting the chorus? Probably not. Although in double checking it's just the track itself -- but that's enough. The actual video is godawful bad, of course. But chin up: "What's The Matter Here? I watched a lot of TBN in the 80s and there was a whole Xmastime appeal about how this song had touched so many lives and brought so many people to Jesus, Jan Crouch was beside herself with morbid joy about it.

The amount of YouTube variants of "Dear Mr. Jesus" entertains. It should be noted that "Dear Mr. Let the record show that at EMP Pop we had a panel to discuss and have the audience vote on the worst song of all time, and "Dear Mr. Jesus" was in fact the winner. Well done, EMP. Every time someone claims "We Built This City" as the worst song ever, I always want to sit them down and play them this. Please Make it stop! The 10 we discussed in the panel, which were a mixture of crowdsourced nominations and participant picks to support making some particular point about what it means to hate music, were:.

How Soon Is Now? Jesus would not have been so successful. I mean, I don't know that this is incorrect, but a I didn't know that "Dear God" was such a hit that it would warrant a pushback, and b "Dear Mr. Jesus" seems like it got through on the "strength" of its novelty and it is a true novelty hit. I was, like, 8 or 9 and "Dear God" was still quite a few years away for me yet. But one of the things I can personally credit "Dear Mr.

Jesus" with is making a classroom full of 4th graders laugh hysterically at a song about child abuse. Doesn't seem to mention the song outside of a vague reference to a recording session she reminisced about on the late producers Obituary page. I have just heard this song for the first time.