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Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - "Whosoever Will, Let Him Come"

KWBU | By Robert Darden

Published April 28, 2019 at 8:35 AM CDT

This nifty self-produced live LP features several great gospel songs on the A side and the powerful, expressive sermon The Ball Game of Life on the B side.

The Rev. Lawrence J. London's New Jerusalem Temple Family Choral is still rockin' the Motor City with "Whosoever Will, Let Him Come."

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"Whosoever Will, Let Him Come," from The Rev. Lawrence J London and the New Jerusalem Temple Family Choral, The Ball Game of Life LP 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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