20 episodes
Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments Unknown
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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 - Corinthian Temple Radio Choir
Vernard Johnson’s “sanctified saxophone” have been thrilling congregations for decades with his emotional versions of classic gospel songs and hymns.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Mom & Pop Winans
The patriarch and matriarch of the far-flung Winans’ empire, Mom & Pop Winans, released some memorable gospel music as well, including “Nobody Else But Him.”
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Passage
Louis and Valerie Johnson of the famed Brothers Johnson join with friend Richard Heath on their excellent gospel side project, titled Passage.
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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.