Robert Darden, a Baylor University professor, former gospel editor for Billboard, and author of People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music, was a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air” today. He spoke to host Terry Gross about the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, housed at Baylor.
Many of the recordings heard during the segment are from the collection of TBGB’s editor, Bob Marovich, who has been loaning 45 rpm discs to the project for digitization and storage since the middle of this year. More of Bob’s collection of approximately 18,000 gospel tracks can be heard on WLUW’s “Gospel Memories” radio show every month.
Check out the Fresh Air archives to hear the interview here.
Collectors who would like to loan discs for digitization should contact the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project here.
Congratulations to Bob Darden on the interview and thanks for all he and his audio engineer Tony Tadey are doing to keep black gospel alive for all time.
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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.
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It’ good to see this considering that Black Gospel Music has a great impact in this society.
I’m just hearing this interview and I am just in tears over the great musical loss and moved by the power of this project. May God bless all of you for doing this.
Bob in Phila
Thank you, Bob in Phila and Warmbrown. It truly is a labor of love! I hope more collectors come forward after hearing the interview and loan their collections to the project, as well. There’s lots out there!
I just found the little piece of paper with notes about the Gospel Restoration Project. It has been lost since November 2007. I am thrilled beyond words. Most refreshing. I would love to be a part of this project. Please preserve this form of music. It is not to be merged with this contemporary gospel and hip hop mess. Yes, I was born in 1938.
Hi, email me at bob@gospelmemories.com and I will put you in touch with Prof. Darden, who will be happy to know of your willingness to be connected with the project.
Hi everyone,
i am looking for a Church to attend a ghospel mess in Chicago.
Can anyone suggest one (location and pssibly time of ceremony?)
Many thanks.
Corrado
Corrado, email me at bob@gospelmemories.com and I can give you several Chicago churches that you can visit while here for great traditional gospel singing.