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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - My Tribute (to God be the Glory)

Bishop Wm. Morris O’Neile and the Voices of Universal’s impassioned version of “My Tribute (to God be the Glory)” is the definitive interpretation of this classic.

The Rev. James Cleveland was the most prolific artist in gospel music history – he involved in at least 200 albums, including this excellent LP by Bishop Wm. Morris O’Neile and the Voices of Universal of Los Angeles, CA, Joy All the Time. Cleveland sings lead on five of the tracks and writes a couple of others – and the Voices of Universal themselves are a real dynamo.

But the most intriguing track is their slow and dramatic 7-minute arrangement of Andrae Crouch’s “My Tribute (to God Be the Glory”). Interestingly, Crouch and Cleveland weren’t the best of friends. But with vocals by the Rev. Stanley Miller, this may be the definitive version of this classic.

2501 Wm Morris O'Neile Voices of Universal - My Tribute.mp3

I’m Robert Darden … “Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments” is produced by KWBU and the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program at Baylor University Libraries.

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).