“Angels, Angels, Angels!” Edna Gallmon Cooke with the Mt. Vernon Men’s ChorusDeLuxe1949Another DeLuxe classic, one catalog number away from TBGB’s No. 123 “Essential Gospel” feature by the Spirit of Memphis Quartet. God must have been smiling particularly warmly on Linden, New Jersey’s DeLuxe Records in the spring of 1949.Before the [...]
A Light to this World - Gene Viale3rd Generation Records 3GRCD-245-01www.geneviale.net2005Forty-one years ago, Gene Viale, a handsome seventeen year-old San Franciscan of Puerto Rican-American descent, was invited to join Rev. James Cleveland's talented Cleveland Singers. Viale traveled with the group when singing the gospel "together" was a dangerous thing, especially [...]
TBGB's Hit Pick of the Week for March 6, 2005: "I'm Not Tired Yet" - Mississippi Mass ChoirPlenty is being written in the trades on the Mississippi Mass Choir's latest project, Not by Might Nor by Power, and every word of the praise is well deserved. Of particular note is [...]
Bishop G.E. Patterson, Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ who was elected to a second term this past November, has given everyone who loves traditional gospel music a beautiful gift: Bishop G.E. Patterson & Congregation Singing The Old Time Way.This is a wonderful, wonderful project, a COGIC [...]
“I’m Happy in the Service of the Lord”/”My Life is in His Hands”The Memphis Gospel Singers (aka Spirit of Memphis Quartet)DeLuxe 32211949[“Happy…” also available on Rounder CD: Bless my Bones: Memphis Gospel Radio - the Fifties]Record collectors: be on the lookout for this wonderful 78 rpm disc when perusing stacks [...]
From the Detroit Free Press, February 18, 2005:Gospel radio DJ and historian Deborah Smith Pollard names the 10 most significant gospel songs or albums to come out of Detroit, which is considered one of the world's great gospel-producing cities:The Voices of Tabernacle, "The Love of God" (1960)"This is a song [...]
Check out GospelFlava's brief history of Preacher Donald Gay and the Gay Sisters, complete with some great vintage photographs and a discography:Preacher Gay and the Gay Sisters
From the New York Times, February 15, 2005:Gospel's Got the BluesBy ROBERT DARDEN Waco, Tex.AT the Grammy awards on Sunday, viewers saw the marriage of old-time gospel and new: the classic artists Mavis Staples and the Blind Boys of Alabama performed a medley with a young musician, Kanye West, that [...]
The Black Gospel Blog wishes to congratulate the following gospel artists on receiving "the hardware" at the most recent Grammy Awards:Traditional Soul Gospel Album: "There Will Be a Light," Ben Harper and The Blind Boys of Alabama.For gentlemen who have been around long enough to have cut loads of 78 [...]
Blackberry Records Presents Songs Mama Used to Sing 3Blackberry CD BBD 1646Produced by Melvin Williams and Doug Williams for Turn-Table Productions2004www.blackberryrecords.comFormer Caravan Dorothy Norwood says that when troubles get you down and you need some real soul salvation, you turn to the old-time gospel songs. Apparently, the staff and musicians [...]
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