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RIP Gospel Radio Icon Connie Denell Cato-Dickerson, 65
Eboni Funderburk, Kenny Smoov (92Q), Tammy Taylor, Denell Nashville, TN -- Legendary Stellar Award and NAACP Award-winning radio announcer Connie Denell Cato-Dickerson was the pride of Nashville. The daughter of radio legend Evelyn Cato, the first black female disc-jockey in the Southeast, Denell started as a sports reporter for her school newspaper while attending Riverside High School in Chattanooga, TN. She worked for two local Chattanooga radio stations, WNOO AM and WNTP, hosting the Quiet Storm shows before attending the famed Morris-Brown College, a historically black college in Atlanta, GA. Denell went on to attend Georgia State University [...]
JGM Music Hour: Episode 116
Click on the image above to begin streaming the program. Playlist for Episode 116: It pays to serve Jesus - LaVarnga Hubbard Bigger than me - Le'Andria Serve - Jermaine Dolly Because of you - Sherwin Gardner If it wasn't for your love - Meg [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: August 21, 2017
“Too Hard Not To” Tina Campbell Malaco Music Group / Gee Tee Creative (2017) www.malaco.com By Bob Marovich Tina Campbell’s new single, “Too Hard Not To,” feels like an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend conversation about the difficulty, and also the importance, of forgiving and forgetting. The intimacy not only comes from the song's lyric, [...]
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RIP Gospel Radio Icon Connie Denell Cato-Dickerson, 65
Eboni Funderburk, Kenny Smoov (92Q), Tammy Taylor, Denell Nashville, TN -- Legendary Stellar Award and NAACP Award-winning radio announcer Connie Denell Cato-Dickerson was the pride of Nashville. The daughter of radio legend Evelyn Cato, the first black female disc-jockey in the Southeast, Denell started as a sports reporter for her school newspaper while attending Riverside High School in Chattanooga, TN. She worked for two local Chattanooga radio stations, WNOO AM and WNTP, hosting the Quiet Storm shows before attending the famed Morris-Brown College, a historically black college in Atlanta, GA. Denell went on to attend Georgia State University [...]
JGM Music Hour: Episode 116
Click on the image above to begin streaming the program. Playlist for Episode 116: It pays to serve Jesus - LaVarnga Hubbard Bigger than me - Le'Andria Serve - Jermaine Dolly Because of you - Sherwin Gardner If it wasn't for your love - Meg [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: August 21, 2017
“Too Hard Not To” Tina Campbell Malaco Music Group / Gee Tee Creative (2017) www.malaco.com By Bob Marovich Tina Campbell’s new single, “Too Hard Not To,” feels like an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend conversation about the difficulty, and also the importance, of forgiving and forgetting. The intimacy not only comes from the song's lyric, [...]
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Bishop Joseph W. Walker III Presents Judah GenerationLight Records 2006Junior (or youth) gospel choirs have been around since the early 1930s, when Theodore Frye organized the very first junior gospel [...]
From a Malaco press release, sent by D.A. Johnson: GOSPEL QUARTET LEGEND 'SLIM' OF SUPREME ANGELS PASSES AWAY Jackson, MS. February 25, 2007 - Sunday, February 25, 2007, gospel music [...]
If you were among those who applauded Chicago's Jennifer Hudson after her Oscar-winning, show-stopping performance of "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" in the musical Dreamgirls, you were applauding [...]
Henry Harrison of Down Home Gospel Productions informed me that Howard "Slim" Hunt, leader of the Supreme Angels, passed away Sunday, February 25. As more information becomes available, TBGB will [...]
“Just For Who You Are”Earnest PughFrom the release Earnest Pugh Live – A Worshipper’s PerspectiveCrystal Rose Records 2006On the relaxed “Just For Who You Are,” Memphis native Earnest Pugh sings [...]
CD ReviewStellar Awards Hits 2007Various ArtistsLight Records 2007While the WOW Gospel two-CD series has served as gospel’s de facto greatest hits compilation since its inception in 1997, Light Records’ Stellar [...]
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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.
