Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments featured song | Go Ahead - Sister Rosetta Tharp
Welcome to Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments. I’m Robert Darden. When Sister Rosetta Tharpe was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, most musicians and historians felt like it was about 20 years too late. Tharpe is considered not only one of the founders of gospel music – but rock itself.
But in truth, she’s truly one of a kind, an influential, iconic artist who really only sounds like herself. Propelled by her confident guitar-picking, Tharpe’s songs – including “Didn’t It Rain,” “This Train,” “Up Above My Head,” “Strange Things Happening Every Day” and dozens more are a unique combination of gospel, spirituals, swing, jump jazz and . yes . the beginnings of rock’n’roll.
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WACO, Texas (March 9, 2021) – Baylor University today announced a $1.5 million gift from the Prichard Family Foundation and Ella Wall Prichard, B.A. 63, of Corpus Christi, to establish an endowed faculty position that will further the research and work of the nationally renowned Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, as well as scholarship in the areas of Black worship, preaching and studies.
The Lev H. Prichard III Chair in the Study of Black Worship, which will receive matching funds through the
Baylor Academic Challenge, will provide faculty endowment for research that will advance the Human Flourishing, Leadership and Ethics Initiative within
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments #2105 | Jan. 31, 2021 8:35am Syd Nathan’s King Record label was so successful that he created the Federal subsidiary in 1950. which itself very quickly became known for jumpin’ blues from top artists like Ike Turner, James Brown’s Famous Flames, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and Freddie King. Federal also released a few gospel LPs and 45s, including the Kingdom Bound Singers of Chicago, featuring big-voiced lead singer Bossie Morson Jr.
The Kingdom Bound Singers bounced around various gospel labels through the years, including Malaco, Vee-Jay, Marco, and Skyway, and had several hits: “Somebody Touched Me,” and “I’ll be Standing” as well as “Standing by the Way,” which has been re-released on several gospel anthologies.The real attraction here, though is Morson – whose trumpet-like voice was a great fit for Federal’s stable of powerful R&B vocalists. K