Reviewed by Nicola Hambridge

The 'Classic Songs' series is "designed to bring together the top 500 songs as sung in churches today... All are used regularly in weekly worship throughout the UK and are popular with churchgoers of all ages." These 20 songs, along with the previous two volumes, can be found in the Songs Of Fellowship book available from Kingsway. Personal favourites of mine include Dave Bilbrough's "Let There Be Love Shared Among Us" with a simple guitar accompaniment, "Bind Us Together", and an upbeat rendering of Graham Kendrick's "God Is Good". From a personal listening point of view, I don't think I'd buy this. However, it would be a very useful aid for any worship group -trying to teach a new song is always easier if people are familiar with the song. Though few churches could hope to sound as musically correct as this, the arrangements are not too complex and would be within the resources of most worship groups.

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