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By Bob Marovich On Sunday mornings from 1963 to 1984, Jubilee Showcase treated television viewers in Chicagoland with 30 minutes of gospel music programming featuring local and national artists. Before BET's Bobby Jones Gospel, Jubilee Showcase was the longest-running gospel television show. Steven Ordower, whose father Sid Ordower was the [...]
“Good God” – Benita Jones
“Good God” Benita Jones Tyscot / Integrity (release date: March 6, 2020) By Bob Marovich As Benita Washington, the P&W singer from Selma, Alabama, captured national attention in 2003 after winning the "Gospel Dream" talent search competition in its inaugural season. Her subsequent albums included Hold On (Light/Intersound, 2004), Renaissance: [...]
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“Done It For Me” – Josh Copeland
Anointed Sounds Records (release date: August 5, 2022)
Sheltering in Place? Watch Episodes of “Jubilee Showcase”
By Bob Marovich On Sunday mornings from 1963 to 1984, Jubilee Showcase treated television viewers in Chicagoland with 30 minutes of gospel music programming featuring local and national artists. Before BET's Bobby Jones Gospel, Jubilee Showcase was the longest-running gospel television show. Steven Ordower, whose father Sid Ordower was the [...]
“Good God” – Benita Jones
“Good God” Benita Jones Tyscot / Integrity (release date: March 6, 2020) By Bob Marovich As Benita Washington, the P&W singer from Selma, Alabama, captured national attention in 2003 after winning the "Gospel Dream" talent search competition in its inaugural season. Her subsequent albums included Hold On (Light/Intersound, 2004), Renaissance: [...]
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RokBorn 2 SingTestimony Records (2011)www.natselmanagement.com/rokBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.With a head full of dreadlocks and Rok as his professional name, you would anticipate that Rokeem Pough is [...]
Our good friend Ducky in Detroit informed TBGB of the passing of Lawrence Goudy, the long-time manager of the Trumpelettes. She attached the photo below, taken circa 2007:Alberta Parren (second [...]
The first rounds of votes have been counted and these are your finalists for the Chicago Black Music Awards - Gospel Jubilee Awards.The awards program will be Saturday, January 21, [...]
"Still Able" is the single from the forthcoming James Fortune & FIYA CD Identity, available January 17, 2012 from Light Records/Entertainment One Music.
“Just That Good (The Albertina Walker Tribute)”Dorothy NorwoodMalaco 2012http://www.malaco.com/Caravan alumna Dorothy Norwood teams with Monica Lisa Stevenson and Bishop J.D. Means from Atlanta on a traditional-flavored tribute to the late [...]
Check out Bainbridge, Georgia's Karen Washington singing "The Storm is Passing Over" to an oh-so-smooth quartet backing.
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By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
