Clip from upcoming documentary film The Gospel Highway featuring the acapella quartet the Birmingham Sunlights in rehearsal singing the gospel standard Somewhere to Lay My Head.
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The Birmingham Sunlights perform in Bethesda, Maryland in September 2009 as recipients of a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship. Excerpt to be included in upcoming documentary film The Gospel Highway by Robert Clem.
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The Soul Stirrers from HOW SWEET IT WAS a DVD/CD/Booklet set on the golden age of gospel from Shanachie Entertainment.
Before Dorothy Norwood was telling stories all up and down the gospel highway about denied mothers and preachers shouting fire, and before Shirley Caesar was telling people to hold their plowing mules for a praise break, there was the ONE, the ONLY Madame Edna Gallmon Cooke. Here's one of her most famous stories, "Stop Gambler" from 1961.
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Written by Rev. Percell Perkins, the Swans take this classic from 1951 and leave listeners haunted by the ethereal solo and backing vocals of Rev. Claude Jeter and the Swans combined with the commanding authority of Rev. Perkins.
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one of of the songs in the medley tribute for my Grandmom,... Deacon Wilbert Firby starts off with the ol' Fire Baptize tune "Oh Yes!" Then sings "Building a Home", then Pastor Cleo Firby picks it up & it's followed by that pentecostal Double Clap {RIP Mother Beatrice Blassingame}
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Suburban 1-11 radio from August 6, 1981, August 13, 1981 and February 24, 1982. Airchecks recorded from Philadelphia. In 1984, WNAR was sold and became Gospel Highway 11 with WGHW calls.. In 1987, the calls changed to WNAP. Airchecks from northeast Philadelphia.
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nez may have been a musical revelation to white Europeans but by 1965 she had already achieved huge popularity among black American church goers. She was the lead singer on some of the biggest hits for the legendary Caravans, including "Mary Don't You Weep", "I'm Not Tired Yet", "Make It In" and "He Won't Deny Me". 40 plus years on, Inez today features in a reformed version of the Caravans (Albertina Walker, Dorothy Norwood, Delores Washington and Inez) performing occasional reunion concerts. So who knows, we may yet hear more from one of the most exciting singers in Christendom who once quipped, "They don't pay me to sing, they like to hear me holler." Inez McConic was born in 1929 in the Alabama city which produced another gospel legend, Dorothy Love Coates, Birmingham. Inez' father was a Baptist preacher and her mother a gospel singer (though she died when Inez was just two years old). Inez received her education in Birmingham public schools and sang in the junior choir of her father's church. Inez' upbringing was hard. Married and divorced while still in her teens, she had to take on domestic work to support her children. As she told author Anthony Heilbut, "I'd make $18 a week. I thought I was saving something. Then I'd spend seven for baby-sitting and two on the bus." She sang locally as a soloist and joined the Carter Choral Ensemble, which travelled around the Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia region. She also sang for a short period with the Raymond Rasberry <b>...</b>
We have a service at Church called uh "Praise Night" and I like to sing this to everybody but its not me its JESUS, can I get a Amen, allright bye,bye
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Happy Birthday Sister Edith Marino of Gospel Highway 11. May God continue to bless you.
