Word Records comes home to Baylor/Waco roots to celebrate 60th anniversary
In 1951, a Baylor student named Jarrell McCracken, BA ’50, MA ’53, recorded “The Game of Life,” a play-by-play account of an imaginary football game that pitted Jesus’ team vs. Satan’s team. The song proved popular enough that he printed 100 records; a friend suggested he label them “WORD,” after the fictional radio station in […]