Two years ago, TBGB reviewed “Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray” by Frederick “Nee” Smith and the Sensational Gospel Light (Rae Cox 144) as an Essential Gospel pick.Classic Gospel: Essential Recordings - Week 112As with many 50s and 60s quartets, biographical information is often scarce, and at the time we were unable [...]
Below is a marvelous website and 2001 CBC radio interview with Bruce Nemerov of Middle Tennessee State University on how he came to locate Sister Ola Mae Terrell. Sister O.M. Terrell was an itinerant "Holy Ghost Preacher" who recorded six sides for Columbia Records in 1953, and never recorded again.Everyone [...]
“Man in the Mirror”The Williams Brothers and Their Superstar FriendsFrom the album SoulLink Live 3: Man in the Mirror2006www.blackberryrecords.comBlackberry Records’ superstar quartets do an admirable job covering Michael Jackson’s 1988 hit single, the latter which also featured gospel superstars, notably the Winans and Andrae Crouch. This time, the Williams Brothers, [...]
From TBGB correspondent Joseph Middleton:Houston, Texas now has its own all-gospel FM radio station: KROI 92.1 FM.On July 17 at 6:45PM CST, KROI, 92.1 FM changed its format from Spanish radio to gospel. The first song they played was Kirk Franklin & The Family's "Why We Sing". It's a Radio [...]
“On Broken Pieces”Bishop Paul Morton and Bishop James Dixon IIFrom the album On Broken Pieces – A Hurricane Relief ProjectBlackberry Records 2006www.blackberryrecords.com“On Broken Pieces” is a somber but optimistic recording about the resilience of the human spirit in the face of great tribulation – Hurricane Katrina specifically. The song has [...]
From the Belle Report, July 14, 2006. TBGB congratulates Margaret Allison, a guest on "Gospel Memories," on her well-deserved public appreciation:Back in the Golden Age of Gospel in the 1950s, Philadelphia produced the Clara Ward Singers, the Davis Sisters and many other great female gospel groups. Among them was Margaret [...]
From Media Jenny:Malaco Records, the gospel industry’s largest independent label, is set to release The Caravans: Paved The Way, on September 5, 2006. This project is the first for the group in forty years and brings together founder Albertina Walker as well as members Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews, and Delores [...]
“There’s a Leak in This Old Building”Brother Claude ElyKing 12821953Good thing for Elvis that Brother Claude Ely was already signed to Syd Nathan’s King Records, because if an unsigned Ely approached Sun’s Sam Phillips in 1953, Ely, not Elvis, may have become Sam’s Golden Boy, a “white man who can [...]
A press release from Faithday Press:(Hazel Crest, IL July 7, 2006) - As America's mainline Protestant churchesfight for survival, the nation's Pentecostal and Charismaticdenominations are experiencing rapid growth with no end in sight. Thispast spring, nearly fifty thousand worshippers traveled to the city of LosAngeles to celebrate the 1906 Azusa [...]
“Help Me to Stay Saved”Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson and the Spiritual VoicesFrom the album Just Being MeVerity Records 2006www.verityrecords.comYou can’t help but grin during old-style quartet redux specialist Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson’s tongue-in-cheek rant on “that’s what’s wrong with the church today." The song reminds me a little of Rev. Anderson Johnson's [...]
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