Biography
The Montfort Singers
Effective period / Period of releases: 1966
Members: John O'Reilly (2), Pat Coyne (2), Paul Baker (23), Joe Valentine (3), Jack Coyne, Don Middendorf
Founded at the St. Louis University Divinity School, this quintet of seminarians took their name from the Montfort Missionary society (an international religious congregation in the Roman Catholic Church.) During the late 1960s and into the 1970s they released a handful of singles along with four albums of ecumenically-minded, Christian folk music.
This very same group of seminarians would release the following records:
Albums:
The Montfort Singers - There'll Come A Day
The Montfort Mission - Yesterday's Gone
The Mission - "Soulful" Sounds For A Church In Change
The Mission - Let's Get Together