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Award-Winning Quartet Documentary “How They Got Over” Screening Around the U.S.
From a press release (NOTE: JGM's Bob Marovich appears in the film): How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source of what would be known as rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in mid-twentieth century America. Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and records made it possible to reach a wider audience. Intense competition brought new ways to entertain, first with guitars, later with full bands, then with a performance style [...]
Dr. Clarence Eggleton and the Singing Ecclesiastics (s/t)
Dr. Clarence Eggleton and the Singing Ecclesiastics (self-titled) Clareton Music (2015) Available from Amazon.com By Bob Marovich Dr. Clarence Eggleton, a GRAMMY-nominated songwriter who wrote for artists from the Reverend James Cleveland to Sara Jordan Powell, convened several talented vocalists to breathe life into a dozen compositions from his catalog of more [...]
The Recording Academy Announces 60th GRAMMY Nominees
Congratulations to the 60th GRAMMY nominees in the Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music categories: 36. Best Gospel Performance/Song • Too Hard Not To Tina Campbell; Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters • You Deserve It JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise Featuring Bishop Cortez Vaughn; David Bloom, JJ Hairston, Phontane Demond Reed & [...]
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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Award-Winning Quartet Documentary “How They Got Over” Screening Around the U.S.
From a press release (NOTE: JGM's Bob Marovich appears in the film): How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source of what would be known as rock and roll, and in the process helped to break down racial walls in mid-twentieth century America. Beginning in the 1920s, Black singers across the country took to the highways as the new technology of radio and records made it possible to reach a wider audience. Intense competition brought new ways to entertain, first with guitars, later with full bands, then with a performance style [...]
Dr. Clarence Eggleton and the Singing Ecclesiastics (s/t)
Dr. Clarence Eggleton and the Singing Ecclesiastics (self-titled) Clareton Music (2015) Available from Amazon.com By Bob Marovich Dr. Clarence Eggleton, a GRAMMY-nominated songwriter who wrote for artists from the Reverend James Cleveland to Sara Jordan Powell, convened several talented vocalists to breathe life into a dozen compositions from his catalog of more [...]
The Recording Academy Announces 60th GRAMMY Nominees
Congratulations to the 60th GRAMMY nominees in the Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music categories: 36. Best Gospel Performance/Song • Too Hard Not To Tina Campbell; Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters • You Deserve It JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise Featuring Bishop Cortez Vaughn; David Bloom, JJ Hairston, Phontane Demond Reed & [...]
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Gospel music singer and songwriter Joyce “Dottie” Rambo was killed Sunday morning, May 11, when her tour bus crashed on Interstate 44 near Mount Vernon, Missouri. Rambo was on her [...]
“Lead Me to the Rock”Rev. Stefanie R. Minatee & JubilationFrom the CD The Launch Out Projecthttp://www.jubilationinc.com/When I reviewed Rev. Stefanie R. Minatee and Jubilation’s The Launch Out Project in November [...]
Deborah Smith Pollard, associate professor of English literature and humanities at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, is also a successful gospel concert producer and host of a popular Sunday morning gospel [...]
As the Helen Robinson Youth Chorus sang, "Time is Winding Up!"The 2008 Lighten the Load Gospel Contest is seeking Gospel Choirs that are affiliated with a church and would be [...]
Gospel music authorities Rev. Lawrence Roberts and Gregory Gay informed TBGB that Elmo Franklin, an original member of the Mighty Clouds of Joy of Los Angeles, California, passed from labor [...]
Light Records released two more Gospel Legacy reissue CDs last week, and this time the focus was on the Hawkins Family.In 1968, Edwin Hawkins single-handedly, though quite unexpectedly, changed the [...]
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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.
