Songs For Little Troopers (1990)

Training up the Troops’ was exciting, very noisy and powerful, but like most of Ishmael’s previous albums the songs tended to be enjoyed more by those over the age of 7. What about the very little troopers, hardly anyone was writing songs for this age group at this time? Before the 90s, with a very few exceptions, Christian songs for the under 7s tended to be very twee with little or no Biblical content. Ishmael was convinced that even tinies had a capacity for understanding God at a deeper level. The need brought about this recording. He re-recorded the original ‘Glorie Song’ to remind these little ones that they could be Glories as well, then added new simple scripture songs, a version of the Lords Prayer and another version of ‘Father God I Wonder’. Other favourites proved to be ‘I Will Click My Fingers’ and,’5000+ Hungry Folk’. At last an album that ‘Early Years’ could also bounce along to.