Replay – Chuck Girard: A Move of God – the Genesis & Power of ‘Jesus Music’
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4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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[Originally aired: 5/4/23] Chuck Girard, singer, songwriter, recording artist, and worship leader, is one of the pioneers of Contemporary Christian Music. He was co-founder and lead singer of the group LOVE SONG from it’s beginning to the present. Born in Los Angeles, Chuck began playing music at an early age. In his teens, he formed a group called THE CASTELLS, which had two national top 20 hits. They also released the song “I Do”, which was produced by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Chuck shared the stage with stars such as Roy Orbison, Jan and Dean, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Vee, and others. This led to a successful career as a studio singer and musician which included singing the lead vocals on THE HONDELLS first two albums and their biggest hit, “Little Honda.”
In his early twenties Chuck became disillusioned with life, and like so many of his generation began experimenting with drugs. This led to a five-year search for God through LSD, eastern religion, and a committed “hippie” lifestyle.
Rock & Roll Preacher – Chuck Girard
After years of searching for meaning through drugs, Buddhism, sex, and Eastern philosophy, a long-haired hippie musician walked his bare feet into a little country church and encountered the living God. Confounded by the simplicity of the gospel, a young Chuck Girard dedicated his life to Jesus during the height of the sexual revolution and civil unrest that characterized the decade of the ’60s. Along with thousands of other “Jesus Freaks” who came to be known as the Jesus Movement, Chuck’s story was only just getting started. This raw and honest memoir is both refreshing and convicting.
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| 0:56.3 | You've probably heard of the movie Jesus Revolution, and you probably heard maybe some of the |
| 1:02.0 | controversy surrounding it. |
| 1:04.0 | Maybe you don't know a lot of the details of what really happened and how much of that |
| 1:07.9 | was actually true in the movie. |
| 1:10.3 | Well, we've got someone who was there, and we're going to introduce right now our guest |
| 1:15.4 | today. |
| 1:16.1 | Very special guest, first time on the podcast, although we've had his daughter on. |
| 1:20.4 | Chuck Gerard, singer, songwriter, recording artist, worship leader, one of the pioneers |
| 1:24.7 | of contemporary Christian music. |
| 1:27.1 | He was co-founder and lead |
| 1:28.7 | singer of the group Love Song, who's coming out with a documentary. We'll get to that in a few |
| 1:32.9 | minutes. And he was born in L.A. In his teens, he formed the group The Castells, which had two |
| 1:38.3 | national top 20 hits. And as a teenager, he shared the stage with, you know, people like |
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