Special thanks to Marc Lindy, gospel radio announcer from Vancouver, for alerting TBGB about this article, from the Detroit Free Press. Ken Flaherty, Jr. and the Grammy Award-winning Archeophone Records have just released a two-CD reissue collection of rare cylinders of the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet.
The set includes the only extant recording of famed tenor Roland Hayes leading the quartet. C’est magnifique!
Read Mark Stryker’s complete story here (and hear snippets of two selections):
Detroiter Collects Early-20th-Century African-American Spirituals
Photo credit: Kathleen Gallaghan/Detroit Free Press.
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.
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