Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a song originally recorded by Scottish alternative band The Vaselines for their EP "Dying for It". It is a parody on the Christian children's hymn, "I'll Be a Sunbeam," which has the opening line "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam." The song was little-known outside the indie-pop scene until Nirvana recorded the song in November 1993. The song released on the album and the DVD for their live acoustic "MTV Unplugged in New York" was titled "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" . The Vaselines re-released
How Firm a Foundation (hymn) Christmas Eve 1898, American units involved in the Spanish–American War joined together to sing the hymn. The units were from the North and the South. The hymn, along with "Jesus Loves Me," served as the thematic material for Virgil Thomson's "Symphony on a Hymn Tune", which was later incorporated into his score for the 1938 documentary film "The River". Sections of "The River"'s score were reused in the 1983 television film "The Day After". Don Gillis interspersed the hymn tune throughout his Symphony No. 7 "Saga of a Prairie School", written in honor of his alma mater, Texas Christian University.