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the week’s most popular current gospel songs across all genres, ranked by streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by luminate, radio airplay audience impressions as measured by ...
May 6, 2024 · • Contact: Stephen Hill | stephenjhill8@gmail.com • Official Mediabase Airplay Chart: https://www.pollstar.com/charts/45/gospel
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- Charles Jenkins, Fellowship Chicago - Keep The Faith (Uncut)1.4M Views
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- John P. Kee - I Made It Out (feat. Zacardi Cortez) (Official Video)2.1M Views
- Maranda Curtis - I'm All In (Official Music Video)1.3M Views
- I SEE MIRACLES by Jekalyn Carr817.3K Views
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- Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Everybody’s Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There
- Hank Williams: I Saw The Light
- Sidney Bechet: When The Saints Go Marching in
- Sam Cooke: Peace in The Valley
- Marian Anderson: Move on Up A Little Higher
- Dinah Washington: The Lord’s Prayer
- Aretha Franklin: There Is A Fountain Filled with Blood
- The Kossoy Sisters: I’ll Fly Away
- Sam Cooke: Touch The Hem of His Garment
- Thelonious Monk: Abide with Me
Elvis Presley, himself a fine gospel performer, named Sister Rosetta Tharpeas one of his favorite singers and guitar players. Tharpe, who was born in Arkansas in 1915, was singing gospel tunes from the 1930s and recording regularly for Decca Records. She was a true inspiration. All you need to hear is the guitar introduction to her 1947 hit “The Lo...
Hank Williams’s “I Saw the Light” is one of the finest examples of country gospel. He reportedly penned the song on the journey home from a dance in Fort Deposit, Alabama, when his mother Lilly saw a beacon light near Dannelly Field Airport and roused her son with the words, ”Hank, wake up, we’re nearly home. I just saw the light.” Although the son...
This celebrated feel-good song (with lyrics that take much of their inspiration from the Book Of Revelations) became something of a jazz-gospel standard after Louis Armstrong’s impressive 1938 version. However, “When The Saints Go Marching In” also features in a brilliant instrumental version by the New Orleans legend Sidney Bechet.
Sam Cookegrew up listening to “Peace in the Valley,” a song written in 1937 for Mahalia Jackson by Thomas A. Dorsey, and which was later recorded by hundreds of musicians, including Presley and Little Richard. In 1950, it was one of the first songs recorded by 19-year-old Cooke, during his time as lead singer of gospel group the Soul Stirrers. Cook...
“Move On Up A Little Higher” was another seminal hit for Mahalia Jackson. However, there is a striking version of the song, written by the Baptist minister William Herbert Brewster in the 40s, which was recorded by Marian Anderson, the celebrated contralto singer from Philadelphia.
Dinah Washington, one of the most popular singers of the 1950s, grew up singing church music. She sang lead with the first female gospel singers formed by Sallie Martin, who was co-founder of the Gospel Singers Convention. In 1952, Washington recorded a singing version of “The Lord’s Prayer” – the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, when they a...
Aretha Franklin was only 14 when she recorded the 1956 album Songs Of Faith (later reissued in 1983 as Aretha Gospel) at the New Bethel Baptist Church, where her father was the reverend. Among the remarkable performances is her version of this hymn by the English 18th-century hymn writer and poet William Cowper.
Written by noted gospel songwriter Albert E Brumley, “I’ll Fly Away” was recorded by close-harmony specialists and identical twins The Kossoy Sisters in 1956. A sublime version by Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss was later used by the Coen Brothers in O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Kanye West has even recorded a version.
This 1956 modern gospel gem easily makes this list of Best Gospel Songs Of All Time, and was penned speedily while soul singer Sam Cookewas on his way to a recording session with his group The Soul Stirrers. Their majestic harmonizing on “Touch The Hem Of His Garment” is a lovely example of male quartet singing from that period in American music wh...
Doris Day cut a sweet version of this song for her 1962 album You’ll Never Walk Alone, but there is a very striking interpretation of the gospel classic by Thelonious Monk. His jazz instrumental take, for his 1957 album Monk’s Music, features jazz giants John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, and drummer Art Blakey.
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Best Gospel Songs Of All Time: Music's Most Moving Spirituals
- “I Saw The Light” by Hank Williams. “I Saw The Light” is a country gospel song written by American singer-songwriter Hank Williams. Williams was apparently inspired to write the song when he was coming back from a concert, inebriated in the backseat, and his mother roused him to tell him that she ‘just saw the light’, signifying that they were near Montgomery.
- “The Lord’s Prayer” by Dinah Washington. “The Lord’s Prayer” is a musical interpretation of the biblical Lord’s prayer. It is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as a way to pray.
- “Somebody Prayed For Me” by Dorothy Norwood. “Somebody Prayed For Me” is an upbeat and cheerful gospel song. Dorothy Norwood was an American gospel singer that originally began touring at the young age of eight.
- “The Battle Is The Lord’s” by Yolanda Adams. “The Battle Is The Lord’s” was recorded for Adam’s 1993 Save The World album. It was named Song of the Year at the Stellar Awards in 1994.
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