Truth of Truths: A Contemporary Rock Opera
Composed and Recorded by record producer Ray Ruff and some talented songwriters in 1970-71, released on Oak Records, TRUTH OF TRUTHS is a Rock Opera stage musical of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, first released both as a stage show and soundtrack 2-LP album on Easter Sunday morning, April 1971, at the Greek Theater in the Hollywood Hills, California, playing to an audience of more than 1,200. Employing nearly 300 people, the musical played to enthusiastic audiences in Los Angeles and five other major American cities over the next year, and the album sold extremely well, selling half a million copies by the time it went out of print in 1975. The album was also so successful not only because it featured some of the brightest and best new talent in Hollywood and Nashville markets, but because of the new nationwide phenomena of the spiritual Jesus Movement – an unprecedented outpouring of young people coming to know Christ outside of the established churches, creating their own styles and music along the way, as former hippies of the late 1960s found their ways into a walk with the Lord in refreshing new ways of life, and started up a new style of music, not church music, and not commercial music either, but something called “Jesus Music”, which eventually became known as CCM – Contemporary Christian Music – by the end of the decade. However, the album was panned by the Rock Press in 1971, with the Rolling Stone and others saying it was “preachy” and “not commercial enough”, and many critics lampooned the idea of Jim Backus as the Voice of God, who was seen as more of a comedic actor and the voice of Mr. Magoo, so they couldn’t take him seriously as the voice of God.
Jim Backus  (Artist),     Ray Ruff  (Composer)    Format: Audio CD
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