20 episodes
Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments Unknown
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4.3 • 8 Ratings
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Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories - and plays recordings - from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community, and the influence they have had on the rest of American music.
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Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - Curtis Young and the Five Singing Sons
Curtis Young and the Five Singing Sons created a bouncy pop-oriented brand of gospel music that will immediately make you think of the Jackson 5.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Gospel Landers of Norfolk, Virginia
The gritty Gospel Landers of Norfolk, Virginia produced a rough and ready brand of soulful gospel music.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Jessy Dixon
Jessy Dixon’s long career included one album produced and recorded with Andrae Crouch, It’s All Right Now.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Cogics
The teen-age COGICs’ “It Will Never Lose Its Power” is the earliest recording of Andrae Crouch’s beloved “The Blood (Will Never Lose Its Power.”
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Golden Gate Quartet
One of the most irresistible songs in all of gospel music is the Golden Gate Quartet’s a cappella rendition of the story of Daniel in the lion’s den – “Shadrack.”
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Violinaires
You’ve never heard Bob Dylan’s masterful “I Shall Be Released” until you’ve heard it sung by Robert Blair and the Violinaires of Chicago.