I tried for many years to find Father Vaughn so that I could thank him properly for what he did for me. I was 22 years old when I met Fr. Vaughn in McTriff's in New Haven. He was in the Yale Divinity school and I was trying to start my life. As I passed by McTriff's one evening, I heard Father Vaughn playing. I had $2.00 in my pocket. I went in, bought a dollar beer and heard some of the greatest music that I had ever encountered. One cold night I had no money so I stood outside and listened to him play. Someone must have told him that I was there because he came out on his break and told me to come inside. Not only did he buy me a beer, but he made me sit next to him on his bench as played his next set. I was cold, hungry, had holes in my shoes, and there I was sitting next to Tommy Vaughn. I thank him in my prayers for making me feel like a real person. To his family, my deepest sympathies at your loss. The world has lost a truly decent man and musician. May God keep him in peace.
He did rule, didn't he! I am still pissed that I did not ask him to autograph my two albums that I that I owned. (Joyful Jazz, and Cornbread). I knew him personally as a lad.
I first heard this song when I moved back to Atlanta after college in 1995. I listened to NPR all day on Saturday from Car Talk to the Met Opera then Prairie HC. My Saturday evening didn't ever really start until I heard this song. So many great memories. Jazz Classics is an awesome show. I recently found WABE streaming and now have my Saturday evenings back again. Thanks for posting!
I share this experience of enjoying Jazz Classics with H. Johnson in Atlanta. This song always brings me back to the first time i heard it, and they're still going with this program, and still playing this tune to open the show. What a great piece of culture.
Same with me...heard him in WABE’s Jazz Classics when I moved back to ATL in 1995. I was in grad school, isolated and lonely. This song and Jazz Classics made Saturday nights bearable!
Well I'm here on a Saturday night hearing this song on wabe jazz classics with h Johnson in Atlanta and in here tonight jiving and jumping into the comments because y'all are here for the same thing. So good to see jazz is still making people have these moments.
Tom was a good friend of our Family growing up. I remember him well when I was 10 and 11 years old. He was the Rector of our church in Midland, Mi. He would come over on occasion and play on our piano we had in the living room. I remember very well listening intently while he played, and enjoying every minute of it.
@Lynn Sanger - I also grew up at St Martin's, my brother and I were actually baptized by Fr Vaughn. Our father Jack was the chapel organist for the Sunday school kids and filled in when the main church organists were on vacation in the summers for services and weddings, etc. I was lucky enough to get to hang out with Fr Vaughn on Sundays after services from time to time, being in a kid, I would just knock on his office door and he would call me in and give me some of his time. I have many fond memories, the church barbeques were always a blast because Fr Vaughn would play and many fine jazz musicians were more than happy to come to that event and play as well. I was young, early preteen to mid teens, and don't recall names of any of the guest musicians, but I knew that it sounded awesome, and I was listening to mostly hard rock and metal at that time. Probably my fondest memory though is when I was maybe 9 or 10. He was playing the Steinway in the Parish Hall late one Sunday after everybody else but my Dad and few others like Bunny and Renelle Davis and Dick Burden had left for the day. I sort of snuck in and was just listening in awe as he rehearsed. He looked up and saw me and stopped playing. To be honest, I think he was none to pleased that I was in there in the first place. Before he could scold me or tell me to leave, I said....Wow Fr. Vaughn, you are way better than my Dad! That brought a smile to his face and the comment.....Douglas, your father is a fine musician. I'll never forget it, and that was 40 plus years ago.
Father Tom was the priest I grew up with at St. Martin's in the Field, in Winnetka, CA. My parent's were close friends with the Vaughn's, I vaguely remember spending time in their home playing with Shelia and listening to Father Vaughn play the piano. I was sad to learn of his passing, but I am sure that her is playing the piano in heaven.
Playing piano in heaven is a certainty - G-d gave him the gift, and no earlth-bound Bishop could take it away!!! Father Tom was a uniquely special human being and greatly missed - - he made a strong impression on me and my stepson Tommy. Thank G-d his recordings are accessible, even if the CDs are not available yet.
Father Vaughn was at St. John's Church in Midland, MI, a young man, priest, and of course, a great musician. We will never forget him. Many of us have followed his career. He died March 4, 2011. Wish his music was available on disc--or is it? SGC
I wish there were a note-for-note transcription of this, every piano note & bass riff, drum and cymbal stroke, etc. with all the rhymthic intricaicies captured on the page.Oscar Peterson's stuff, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, etc. have gotten that treatment. Why not this?
Thank you ROI... Sorry I just checked this post. I am working on digitizing his music. I will be back shortly, and any feedback you can give me let me know!! God bless!!! Sheila
@sheilavaughn61 dear God, spare my soul for not completeing the production "all that jazz" with your dad and daniel kibbie - terrell van romack. the angels praise his great works forever. as i was blessed to meet tom and his wife- so i am in great sorry tonite...
Terrell,.any feedback you can give me or chronicles I'd greatly appreciate. I am working on digitizing his music and his legacy.. he was an amazing man. My mother Beverle is greatly missed as well. We lost her in November of 2012... God Bless!!!
First, what a great rendition (and musician). I heard it first when browsing for UGA videos (as the tune us our school battle song!) It's a great combo with the voice of the late great Larry Munson's game calls. :)
Along with Johnny Costa's pianowork during "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" credits, Tom Vaughn's piece deserves to a note-for-note transcription committed to sheet music for the archives like what's been done for Art Tatum's "Tea for Two" in the link below. Art Tatum's score sits in my wish list pile of material to practice. Though I'll never master stuff like this, at least I can try my hand - er, hands - at some of the runs and gain a deeper appreciation of the intricacies of the music however artists like Yuja Wang have actually played Tatum's transcription in the recital. Here's the sheets: th-cam.com/video/kACt0FM0Kf8/w-d-xo.html and Wang's recreation-in-recital in 2015: th-cam.com/video/MCUjdgdqE90/w-d-xo.html
Wang also played Father Tom's version of Battle Hymn as an encore after a concerto - but I can't find that video again. That makes me think the sheet music is SOMEWHERE!!! I seriously want to play it. Just for fun....!
Thank you Terrell! I so appreciate it! Check out my cousin Brady Powell "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on you tube... he looks just like my dad in his Village Gate album cover.. a legacy no doubt! I will send you my address tomorrow! I truly appreciate any help an footage you can give us.. I am compiling a 'best of' montage of my dads works... Thanks so much! Sheila! :)
i am greatful forever to be the fool to help talk Father Tom into a silly Jazz TV Show with Daniel Kibbie - signed terrell romack. Hark the Herald Angels Sing!
Message for Sheilavaughn61: I subscribed to your TH-cam page and left a message there for you. I hope you see it soon and reply direct. I do look in here at TH-cam from time to time, but don't remember if I get automatic notifications to replies or not. Hope to hear from you with info in my posting to your Subscriber page. -ROI-
nothing in my postal box yet, sweetie. as most of my mail Does get Screened. also, some kid burned the aptartment mail center down 4 weeks ago - sooooo, I Am rebuilding my Fostex Equipment to get the audio from analog to digital here at the 'home ' (apt home). when i get to the library at UT arlington, with high speed internet, i will view your cousin brady powell's vid(s). hope you talk to Dan Kibbie in Encino some day soon, he was Tom's friend that introduced me to your folks. Peace. tvr
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I tried for many years to find Father Vaughn so that I could thank him properly for what he did for me. I was 22 years old when I met Fr. Vaughn in McTriff's in New Haven. He was in the Yale Divinity school and I was trying to start my life. As I passed by McTriff's one evening, I heard Father Vaughn playing. I had $2.00 in my pocket. I went in, bought a dollar beer and heard some of the greatest music that I had ever encountered. One cold night I had no money so I stood outside and listened to him play. Someone must have told him that I was there because he came out on his break and told me to come inside. Not only did he buy me a beer, but he made me sit next to him on his bench as played his next set. I was cold, hungry, had holes in my shoes, and there I was sitting next to Tommy Vaughn. I thank him in my prayers for making me feel like a real person. To his family, my deepest sympathies at your loss. The world has lost a truly decent man and musician. May God keep him in peace.
Not surprised at all -- he was made of the right stuff, and apparently so are you!
Ray Ciccone - Thank you for sharing your story. Literally brought tears to my eyes. (Thankfully) my Dad was a Father Vaughn fan, thus so am I.
He did rule, didn't he! I am still pissed that I did not ask him to autograph my two albums that I that I owned. (Joyful Jazz, and Cornbread). I knew him personally as a lad.
I first heard this song when I moved back to Atlanta after college in 1995. I listened to NPR all day on Saturday from Car Talk to the Met Opera then Prairie HC. My Saturday evening didn't ever really start until I heard this song. So many great memories. Jazz Classics is an awesome show. I recently found WABE streaming and now have my Saturday evenings back again. Thanks for posting!
I share this experience of enjoying Jazz Classics with H. Johnson in Atlanta. This song always brings me back to the first time i heard it, and they're still going with this program, and still playing this tune to open the show. What a great piece of culture.
Same with me...heard him in WABE’s Jazz Classics when I moved back to ATL in 1995. I was in grad school, isolated and lonely. This song and Jazz Classics made Saturday nights bearable!
Wild! I heard it on a rerun of NPR here in Atlanta and looked it up and here we are!!
Well I'm here on a Saturday night hearing this song on wabe jazz classics with h Johnson in Atlanta and in here tonight jiving and jumping into the comments because y'all are here for the same thing. So good to see jazz is still making people have these moments.
I have heard this over 1000 times and it still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Tom was a good friend of our Family growing up. I remember him well when I was 10 and 11 years old. He was the Rector of our church in Midland, Mi. He would come over on occasion and play on our piano we had in the living room. I remember very well listening intently while he played, and enjoying every minute of it.
God Rest in Peace Dad! We love you!!! 3/4/11 Sheila :)
💚💚💚
@Lynn Sanger - I also grew up at St Martin's, my brother and I were actually baptized by Fr Vaughn. Our father Jack was the chapel organist for the Sunday school kids and filled in when the main church organists were on vacation in the summers for services and weddings, etc. I was lucky enough to get to hang out with Fr Vaughn on Sundays after services from time to time, being in a kid, I would just knock on his office door and he would call me in and give me some of his time. I have many fond memories, the church barbeques were always a blast because Fr Vaughn would play and many fine jazz musicians were more than happy to come to that event and play as well. I was young, early preteen to mid teens, and don't recall names of any of the guest musicians, but I knew that it sounded awesome, and I was listening to mostly hard rock and metal at that time. Probably my fondest memory though is when I was maybe 9 or 10. He was playing the Steinway in the Parish Hall late one Sunday after everybody else but my Dad and few others like Bunny and Renelle Davis and Dick Burden had left for the day. I sort of snuck in and was just listening in awe as he rehearsed. He looked up and saw me and stopped playing. To be honest, I think he was none to pleased that I was in there in the first place. Before he could scold me or tell me to leave, I said....Wow Fr. Vaughn, you are way better than my Dad! That brought a smile to his face and the comment.....Douglas, your father is a fine musician. I'll never forget it, and that was 40 plus years ago.
I also went to St.Martins
My dad sang in the choir for yrs. My brother and I attended the elementary school. 😊
A wonderful rendition of this timeless classic.
Glen
God Bless Father Tom and H. Johnson.....
If any one is looking for more of Tom Vaughn's amazing music, I have uploaded he's 'Joyful Jazz' vinyl album on my channel. I love it!
Father Tom was the priest I grew up with at St. Martin's in the Field, in Winnetka, CA. My parent's were close friends with the Vaughn's, I vaguely remember spending time in their home playing with Shelia and listening to Father Vaughn play the piano. I was sad to learn of his passing, but I am sure that her is playing the piano in heaven.
Playing piano in heaven is a certainty - G-d gave him the gift, and no earlth-bound Bishop could take it away!!! Father Tom was a uniquely special human being and greatly missed - - he made a strong impression on me and my stepson Tommy. Thank G-d his recordings are accessible, even if the CDs are not available yet.
Father Vaughn was at St. John's Church in Midland, MI, a young man, priest, and of course, a great musician. We will never forget him. Many of us have followed his career. He died March 4, 2011. Wish his music was available on disc--or is it? SGC
I wish there were a note-for-note transcription of this, every piano note & bass riff, drum and cymbal stroke, etc. with all the rhymthic intricaicies captured on the page.Oscar Peterson's stuff, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, etc. have gotten that treatment. Why not this?
Thank you ROI... Sorry I just checked this post. I am working on digitizing his music. I will be back shortly, and any feedback you can give me let me know!! God bless!!!
Sheila
This is my Uncle :D No joke haha.
Fr. Vaughn was the leader of our youth group at St. John's Episcopal Church and a very special friend.
This song is my childhood. This needs to get on CD and iTunes NOW!!, lol. Can't wait to see it pop up somewhere.
That's my Uncle! My mom's brother!
oh wow thank you for uploading THIS!! I've never heard of him before until now :D AMEN
God hear our prayer. Please save our Republic. We The People do not consent to this tyranny.
@sheilavaughn61 dear God, spare my soul for not completeing the production "all that jazz" with your dad and daniel kibbie - terrell van romack. the angels praise his great works forever. as i was blessed to meet tom and his wife- so i am in great sorry tonite...
Terrell,.any feedback you can give me or chronicles I'd greatly appreciate. I am working on digitizing his music and his legacy.. he was an amazing man. My mother Beverle is greatly missed as well. We lost her in November of 2012... God Bless!!!
First, what a great rendition (and musician). I heard it first when browsing for UGA videos (as the tune us our school battle song!) It's a great combo with the voice of the late great Larry Munson's game calls. :)
rachelt816 Do you have any idea why the them song for the Union during the Civil War became a battle song for a Southern university?
now THAT'S how you play the pie-anna!!
WOW!
Along with Johnny Costa's pianowork during "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" credits, Tom Vaughn's piece deserves to a note-for-note transcription committed to sheet music for the archives like what's been done for Art Tatum's "Tea for Two" in the link below. Art Tatum's score sits in my wish list pile of material to practice. Though I'll never master stuff like this, at least I can try my hand - er, hands - at some of the runs and gain a deeper appreciation of the intricacies of the music however artists like Yuja Wang have actually played Tatum's transcription in the recital. Here's the sheets: th-cam.com/video/kACt0FM0Kf8/w-d-xo.html and Wang's recreation-in-recital in 2015: th-cam.com/video/MCUjdgdqE90/w-d-xo.html
Wang also played Father Tom's version of Battle Hymn as an encore after a concerto - but I can't find that video again. That makes me think the sheet music is SOMEWHERE!!! I seriously want to play it. Just for fun....!
Much better quality audio for enhanced enjoyment of this timeless masterpiece on my channel ripped from my own LP
Thank you Terrell! I so appreciate it! Check out my cousin Brady Powell "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on you tube... he looks just like my dad in his Village Gate album cover.. a legacy no doubt!
I will send you my address tomorrow! I truly appreciate any help an footage you can give us.. I am compiling a 'best of' montage of my dads works... Thanks so much! Sheila! :)
i am greatful forever to be the fool to help talk Father Tom into a silly Jazz TV Show with Daniel Kibbie - signed terrell romack. Hark the Herald Angels Sing!
Message for Sheilavaughn61: I subscribed to your TH-cam page and left a message there for you. I hope you see it soon and reply direct. I do look in here at TH-cam from time to time, but don't remember if I get automatic notifications to replies or not.
Hope to hear from you with info in my posting to your Subscriber page.
-ROI-
nothing in my postal box yet, sweetie. as most of my mail Does get Screened. also, some kid burned the aptartment mail center down 4 weeks ago - sooooo, I Am rebuilding my Fostex Equipment to get the audio from analog to digital here at the 'home ' (apt home). when i get to the library at UT arlington, with high speed internet, i will view your cousin brady powell's vid(s). hope you talk to Dan Kibbie in Encino some day soon, he was Tom's friend that introduced me to your folks. Peace. tvr
@Bmac2827 who is this? I'm probably related to you.
the audio transfer sounds terrible
Cringe. As a Catholic we should recognize how horribly blasphemous and heretical the battle hymn of the republic is.
A wonderful rendition of this timeless classic.
Glen