Paul Harvey - 'The Testing Time' (Full Album) - 1960
Recorded in 1960, this is radio commentator Paul Harvey (1918-2009) with the spoken-word album \"The Testing Time\". There are four tracks on this album, each timestamped for easy access:
0:00 - The Testing Time
22:18 - Two Newsman
27:15 - Interview with Barabbas
32:40 - Indestructible Wall
From the liner notes of the album by Fabian Bachrach:
\"When you reduce this album to its very essence you will find a love story told by the man in love. The man is Paul Harvey, his love is America. The tale he relates is not one of blind love, but the same type that a parent feels for its child...recognizing faults, desiring improvement, showing the way...yet holding fast to an undying love for the child. Paul Harvey has always been in love with his country. Now he sees America, individually and collectively, weighed... and found wanting. This is a permanent record re-stating a basic conviction: It is not enough for us to be against...Americans desperately need something to be for...a reason to live and a reason to die. Young Americans at the early crossroads of life---mature Americans, grown complacent...all Americans must face up to the 'Testing Time'. The hour is late: So many stand to lose so much. The story here told is not new; it has been told in many ways by many others throughout the centuries. However, nobody tells it as does Paul Harvey.\"
Then \"The Back Side of the Album\" relates three unforgettable essays in which Paul Harvey \"interviews\" Barabbas---honors two whose names you know---and with the x-ray eyes of a newsman, looks inside a miracle.
Paul Harvey was 41 years of age when this album was released.
