The greatest unknown supergroup in gospel music history was the COGICs. Along with his sister Sandra, Andrae Crouch’s first ensemble, way back in early ‘60s. The teen-age COGICs featured the incomparable Billy Preston on Hammond B-3 organ and three vocalists who would all go to varying degrees of fame in popular music: Sondra “Blinky” Williams, Gloria Jones, and Edna Wright.
The COGICs lone album for Vee-Jay got caught up in the label’s bankruptcy hearings, so the producer, Richard Simpson, released the group on his own short-lived Simpson Records label. Their 45, “It Will Never Lose Its Power” is the earliest recording of one of Andrae’s best-loved songs, “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power” ... and one of the rarest songs in the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project!
MUSIC: The COGICs, “It Will Never Lose Its Power,” 45, May 5, 2024
