“What Did you Do”
Paul Porter
From the CD A New Day
Light Records 2008
www.lightrecords.com
“What did you do when the Lord saved you?” Paul Porter sings. “Did you…dance?”
If the newly converted were listening to Porter’s “What Did You Do,” the first radio single off the former Christianaires’ debut solo album A New Day, the answer would be a resounding yes. Like a preacher walking the aisles of a tent revival, Paul Porter exhorts his congregation to remember when they were first saved. Was it in church? In school? At the mall? “You can get saved at the mall,” Porter retorts.
Surely if saving hadn’t happened yet, it was about to, courtesy of this wonderfully upbeat going-back-to-church song. TBGB predicts a big hit for Porter, especially in the quartet-loving south. Its confident swagger and theatricality will remind you of “Born Blessed” and other recent hits by Elder Jimmy Hicks and the Voices of Integrity.
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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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Hi Paul,
I love to here you sing. My co-workers, and I listen to the song
“Peace Be Still”, when you were
with all the gospel singers, in
Jackson Mississippi. I am so glad
you have been healed by the Lord,
thank you Jesus. I am a teacher here in Detroit, just wanted you to know you are a gift from God.
Thank you, Marsha Chatman, montee2752@aol.com Seee you.