Tune to 88.7 WLUW Chicago Sunday morning, June 1, from 3:00 to 7:30 a.m. Central Time for this month’s live broadcast of “Gospel Memories” – the soundtrack to That Old Time Religion.

Not in Chicago? No problem. Go to http://www.wluw.org/, click the Listen Live button, and enjoy “Gospel Memories” from wherever you are!

In town for Chicago’s Gospel Fest? Tune in Sunday morning and get your dose of traditional gospel before the day’s events get started!

Highlights of the June 1 Broadcast:

Interview with Pastor Shirley Caesar on the release of After Forty Years – Still Sweeping Through the City (Shu-Bel Records/Light Records).

Benediction: “The Lord’s Prayer” – the Orioles

In Loving Memory: Elmo Franklin of the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Preacher Feature: snippet from “The World Series (a Sermon)” by Rev. Roy E. Easley, 1972 (photo below)

From the Vault: Sanctified singing: Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux of Washington DC; Elder Oscar Sanders, others.

Recordings by classic artists such as:
Gospel Solotones
Two Gospel Keys
Tyler Trio
Sunset Four
Spiritual Five
Six Trumpets
Seven Melody Men
Mt. Pisgah B.C. Choir of Chicago
Rev. W.M. Chambers
COGIC Holy Convocation Choir w/Mattie Moss Clark – September 1970
Kingdom Bound Singers
Thompson Community Singers (1964)
Margaret Allison and the Angelic Gospel Singers
Simmons-Akers Trio w/Helen Henderson
Caravans (States Records sessions)

…and much more!

So tune in and turn on to “Gospel Memories”…for music that moves you and makes you move.

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Written by : Bob Marovich

Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.