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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Golden Trumpets

Check out the Golden Trumpets’ array of superb soloists on this winsome mid-tempo jubilee number, “Jesus My Doctor.”

In 2023, the Golden Trumpets of tiny Forest City, North Carolina, celebrated their 79th year – performing and ministering throughout the Southeast. The Trumpets only recorded a handful of 45s for the Nashville-based Nashboro label in the mid-1960s. Nashboro dominated the southern traditional soul gospel market in those days... and its releases are always worth searching out.

While the Golden Trumpets never made a dent on the national charts, their longevity is due, in part, to the quartet’s array of excellent singers through the years, including several fine bass singers at a time when most groups had switched to bass guitar. Check out the voices on this winsome mid-tempo jubilee number, “Jesus My Doctor.”

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MUSIC: Golden Trumpets, “Jesus My Doctor,” 45 (July 28, 2024)

“Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments” is produced by KWBU and the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program at Baylor University Libraries.

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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(Abingdon Press, 2008), Reluctant Prophets and Clueless Disciples: Understanding the Bible by Telling Its Stories(Abingdon Press, 2006); and People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music(Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2004).