mighty clouds of joy

Joe Ligon of the Mighty Clouds of Joy Passes Away: Homegoing Details Announced

2016-12-17T18:48:58-06:00December 11th, 2016|

By Bob Marovich (UPDATED 12/17/16) Gospel quartet legend Willie Joe Ligon passed away on Sunday, December 11. Homegoing and memorial details are at the bottom of this report. Born October 11, 1936, in Troy, Alabama, Ligon migrated to Los Angeles at age 14 and met his future mates in the Mighty [...]

Best of Proverb & Gospel Corner Records: 1959-1969

2016-09-28T16:05:26-05:00September 28th, 2016|

Various Artists Best of Proverb & Gospel Corner Records: 1959-1969 NarroWay Records (2016) www.gospelfriend.com By Bob Marovich Gospel music has had many multi-taskers, chief among them the late Brother Henderson of Los Angeles, California. In the late 1950s, Sylvester C. “Duke” Henderson forsook his R&B singing career, hung up his [...]

RIP: Wilbert Williams (Mighty Clouds of Joy, Mighty Sanfordaires)

2016-05-18T00:03:08-05:00May 18th, 2016|

From Dexter Hinson, Minister of Music, Pee Dee Union Baptist Church of Cheraw, South Carolina: Wilbert Williams of Sanford, North Carolina, passed away on Saturday, May 14. He was the front man of his family group, Eddie and The Williams Brothers, named after his late father. Most of the quartet's [...]

Historic Gospel TV Program Jubilee Showcase Needs Your Help

2015-08-04T16:23:39-05:00August 4th, 2015|

By Bob Marovich From 1963 to 1984, the Emmy Award-winning television program Jubilee Showcase brought the nation's greatest gospel singers and groups into living rooms throughout Chicagoland. Every Sunday morning, host Sid Ordower treated viewers to performances by such stalwarts as the Caravans, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Norfleet [...]

JGM Pick of the Week: March 3, 2015

2015-03-03T01:59:33-06:00March 3rd, 2015|

“He Delivered Me” Pastor Marlon Lock From the CD Good Seed Project www.pastormarlonlock.com Pastor Marlon Lock’s testimonial “He Delivered Me” has all the flavor of a quartet song, complete with the up-tempo southern-fried backbeat, the congregational song lyric, the call and response between male background vocalists, and the extended vamp. It [...]

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