YOUNG HEARTS FOREVER FEATURED ON ZNS BAHAMAS NATIONAL TV

YOUNGHEARTSFOREVER FEATURED ON ZNS BAHAMAS NATIONAL TELEVISION!

Mataya Cunningham featured Erskine and Fay Knowles of youngheartsforever on "Let's Talk Social", ZNS National TV, Tuesday night June 3rd, 2025! Thank you Mataya! We had no idea we were going to be featured! Great surprise to us! Join us on our journey and follow, like and share!

Mataya ran Erskine's cover "If the Good Lord", which is a popular song from The Bahamas and sung and played by Erskine in a separate video on our tiktok platform. This song was written, arranged and produced by Norris Rex Carroll and performed by “Randolph “Ranny” Knowles & The Revolutions. Released 1974.

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THE INVADERS, THE LISBON CLUB, BAY STREET, NASSAU, BAHAMAS 1965

THE INVADERS, THE LISBON CLUB, BAY STREET, NASSAU 1965

A popular 1965 Bahamian band, The Invaders, at The Lisbon Club, Nassau Bahamas.

Background music: "Nassau Samba", "Uncle Lou", and "The Crow"/"Bullfrog" by George Symonette from back in the 1950's. These songs are all sung here as a calypso medley by Erskine Knowles.

Erskine used to stop at the Carlton House Hotel, East Street, Nassau, opposite Batelco (now BTC) on his way home from work on Bay Street and listen to George Symonette (piano and vocals), Peanuts Taylor (drums) and Harold McNair (flute).

His band "The Invaders" played in The Lisbon Club, Bay Street, Nassau, Bahamas (it used to be located near where Hoffer's is now) for about six months in 1965. They went on from there to play at parties leading up to Christmas and New Year. Left to right: Lorin Cartwright (singing and shaking maracas), Peter Catalyn [Catalano] (drums) and Erskine Knowles (electric guitar and vocals).

Fay used to sing with them sometimes in The Lisbon Club, which was run by Johnny ("Long John Silver") from Portugal. Sometimes she'd pop across the road and sing in The Purple Onion too. Later Johnny and his Jamaican wife moved to Jamaica.

Erskine had sent this photo to his mother on Long Island, with an inscription, sending her his love. You can still see the faint writing on the photo.

Background music - acoustic cover by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Erskine Knowles from The Bahamas.

Research by Erskine's wife Fay, an author, long time resident of The Bahamas and originally from Scotland.

Adaptation of picture to video and background music added: Fay and Erskine's son Rory Knowles.

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"HOW GREAT THOU ART" AUTHOR PAUL BETHEL & MUSICIAN ERSKINE KNOWLES

"HOW GREAT THOU ART" IMPROMPTU MUSICAL GET TOGETHER BAHAMIAN AUTHOR PAUL BETHEL & MUSICIAN/SINGER/SONGWRITER ERSKINE KNOWLES

A good friend of ours, Bahamian author Paul Bethel, stopped by yesterday afternoon and he and Erskine had an impromptu musical get together, singing "How Great Thou Art". They had never sung together before, but Paul sings in his church.

THE BACKGROUND TO THIS BEAUTIFUL HYMN:

Young Swedish Pastor Carl Boberg and some friends were walking home in 1885 to Mönsterås from Kronobäck, Sweden, where they had participated in an afternoon church service. A thundercloud appeared on the horizon and lightning flashed across the sky. Strong winds swept over the meadows and billowing fields of grain.

The thunder pealed in loud claps. Then rain came in cool fresh showers. In a little while the storm was over, and a rainbow appeared. 

When Boberg arrived home, he opened the window and saw the bay of Mönsterås like a mirror before him. From the woods on the other side of the bay, he heard the song of a thrush and the church bells were tolling in the quiet evening. It was this series of sights, sounds, and experiences that inspired his writing of the song "O Store Gud" which became the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art”.

The English version of the hymn and its title are a loose translation by the English missionary Stuart K. Hine from 1949. The hymn was popularised by George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows during Billy Graham's crusades.

It was voted the British public's favourite hymn by BBC's Songs of Praise. "How Great Thou Art" was ranked second (after "Amazing Grace") on a list of the favourite hymns of all time in a survey by Christianity Today magazine in 2001 and in a nationwide poll by Songs Of Praise in 2019.

(Source: Wikipedia).

Sung here by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Erskine Knowles from The Bahamas and Bahamian author Paul Bethel.

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“IF THE GOOD LORD (NEVER GOES ON HOLIDAY)” NORRIS CARROLL/RANNY KNOWLES

Just had to share this cover song by my husband Erskine Knowles, as it's such fun!

“IF THE GOOD LORD (NEVER GOES ON HOLIDAY)”

This is a popular song from The Bahamas. Written, Arranged and Produced by Norris Rex Carroll. Performed by “Randolph “Ranny” Knowles & The Revolutions. Released 1974.

Famous Bahamian entertainer and singer Nita Ellis, daughter of the renowned Count Bernadino, also recorded this song.

Acoustic cover by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Erskine Knowles from The Bahamas.
Research and recording by Erskine's wife Fay, an author, long-time resident of The Bahamas and originally from Scotland.

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COMING SOON - AN ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK SET IN THE BAHAMAS

COMING SOON Fay is a Scottish-Bahamian author 🌍✍️ about to make her debut in children's literature with an enchanting illustrated book set in The Bahamas 🇧🇸📚. Stay tuned for a delightful splash of creativity! 💦✨ She is married to Bahamian musician Erskine Knowles 🎶❤️ and has lived in The Bahamas for decades. Discover her published works at Amazon.com/author/fayknowles and follow her blog at fayknowles.blogspot.com. 📖🌟

MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE – COVER BY ERSKINE & FAY KNOWLES

"Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" is a traditional spiritual first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. The song was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned the island before the Union navy arrived to enforce a blockade. Charles Pickard Ware was an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865, and he wrote down the song in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it. Ware's cousin William Francis Allen reported in 1863 that the formerly enslaved Black Americans sang the song as they rowed him in a boat across Station Creek.

The song was first published in 1867 in Slave Songs of the United States by Allen, Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. Folk musician and educator Tony Saletan rediscovered it in 1954 in a library copy of that book and introduced it into the American folk music revival.

The best-known recording was released in 1960 by the U.S. folk band The Highwaymen; that version briefly reached number-one hit status as a single. (Source: Wikipedia). Peter, Paul and Mary also recorded this song.

Acoustic cover by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Erskine Knowles from The Bahamas and his wife Fay, an author, long-time resident of The Bahamas and originally from Scotland.

Erskine often struck up this song at parties and gigs throughout The Bahamas and attendees loved to join in the chorus!

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