Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
Sundays 8:35 am; Mondays at 4:48am. 6:48am, 8:48am and 5:48pm.
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.
Latest Episodes
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Paul Robeson was a true American hero – and a wonderful singer. Here’s his version of the spiritual, “I’ve Got a Home in Dat Rock.” -
The old spiritual “I’ve Got Shoes” gets the full Memphis treatment by the Rev. Al Banks and the Jubilee Hummingbirds.
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Marian Williams takes the lead on the Clara Ward and the Ward Singers’ version of Brewster’s memorable “I’m Climbing Up Higher and Higher.”
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Featuring Roosevelt Glass, the Sons of Jordan sing old-school, gut-bucket gospel, like their version of “Just Like He Said.”
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Dorothy Love Coates’ “Finishing Line” is one of the highlights of the Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church Gospel Choir LP, I Don’t Know What I’d Do.
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Hilliard McSwine and the Melody Kings of Greenwood, Mississippi deliver some serious gospel boogie with “I’m On My Way.”
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They call Shirley Caesar “The First Lady of Gospel Music” for good reason – just listen to one of her great story-songs, “Hold My Mule,” and see if you don’t agree!
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The multi-talented Paul Leka released one gospel recording his long career, the bright and bouncy “His Love Flows Through Me Like a River” by the otherwise unknown Freedom Soul Singers.
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Ethel Waters was an American original – actress, activist and singer of such classic songs as “Stand by Me.”
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Doris Akers was a legendary composer, arranger, choir director and singer – check out her version of the old classic, “Dwelling in Beulah Land.”
