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Apr 28, 2024 · 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.”. One of the most influential, talented and long-lasting of all gospel groups were the legendary Golden Gate Quartet. They began in Norfolk, Virginia, as the Golden Jubilee ...
Jun 19, 2022 · Published June 19, 2022 at 7:41 AM CDT. Listen • 2:00. The Rev. Dr. Stanley Keeble knows as much about gospel music as anybody alive. As I tape this in early 2022, Keeble – now in his 90s – is still the driving force behind a gospel music museum in his beloved Chicago. Keeble’s roots go deep in the Windy City – he studied organ with ...
Jun 6, 2021 · Fortunately, the Black Gospel Music Restoration project has one of the two 45s released on Designer by the otherwise unknown Rev. Leon Hamner and the Holy City Travelers. It features an upbeat, poppy gospel romp titled “I’ve Got the Love of Jesus” that would have fit perfectly in the wide-open pop charts of 1970 – if any DJ had had the ...
Mar 17, 2024 · Robert F. Darden is the author of two dozen books, most recently: Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volume II: Black Sacred Music from Sit-In to Resurrection City (Penn State University Press, 2016); Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement(Penn State University Press, 2014); Jesus Laughed: The Redemptive Power of Humor ...
Apr 7, 2024 · Waco, Texas, featured several first-rate quartets in the 1950s and ‘60s, most notably the Stars of Harmony, the Estelle Family Singers, the Southern Jubilee Singers and, later, the Gospel Sons. Thanks to historians like Bettie V. Beard, we know a lot about these groups that were widely popular throughout Central Texas.
