Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - "The Storm is Passing Over"

KWBU | By Robert Darden

Published March 31, 2019 at 8:35 AM CDT

Gospel music was known for its great bass singers. Alas, we may never know the name of the bass singer for the Bonnett Harmonizers of Washington D.C. but his bouncy, melodic singing on their lone LP, The Storm is Passing Over, is worth cherishing.

The lone known release from the Bonnett Harmonizers of Washington D.C. features exemplary mid-'60s gospel music.

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The Bonnett Harmonizers of Washington D.C., The Storm is Passing Over LP, "The Storm is Passing Over," Side I, Track I

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Robert Darden

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).

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