Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
Sundays 8:35 am; Mondays at 4:48am. 6:48am, 8:48am and 5:48pm.
Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories -- and plays recordings -- from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community, and the influence they have had on the rest of American music.
Latest Episodes
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The glorious, bottomless bass of Jimmy Jones is at the heart of this lovely track from the Sensationals, “I Can’t Begin to Tell You.” -
Bill Moss & the Celestials keep it funky with “I Ain’t Gonna Sing Rock and Roll.”
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Mahalia Jackson is still consider gospel music’s greatest singer – and “Move on Up a Little Higher” is still considered her greatest song.
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The Swan Silvertones are gospel music legends and Claude Jeter Jr.’s rendition of the old spiritual “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” is gospel music royalty!
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This stellar track featuring Jeffrey LaValley, “Just a Little Talk with Jesus,” is from a live recording by the National Convention of Gospel Evangelists, Musicians and Choral Associations.
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The ground-breaking Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir under the direction of Prof. Alex Bradford is one first – and best – live recordings ever made of a gospel mass choir.
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The Famous Cleveland Quartet were one of the earliest to record arrangements of the old spirituals – what’s now called “jubilee.”
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Ruth Davis of the Davis Sisters was one of gospel’s greatest shouters – as her version of “He’ll Understand and Say ‘Well Done’” will surely attest!
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Jimmy Jones, the legendary bass singer for the Harmonizing Four, delivers a speakers-rattling vocal on the old spiritual, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”
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In 1982, the Southeast Inspirational Choir’s release of “My Liberty” was the break-out song for 21-year-old gospel superstar Yolanda Adams.
