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 old gospel song "Tell Him What You Want" gets a rousing treatment from 22-year-old Mavis and the Staple Singers. -
Legendary lyric soprano Leontyne Price's ethereal voice elevates the beloved spiritual "There is a Balm in Gilead" to new heights.
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In his short life, Donald Vails left a great gospel music legacy with his Choraleers, including "He Looked Beyond My Faults" in 1975.
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The Sandra Crouch LP We Sing Praises is credited with saving the nearly bankrupt Light Records label in 1983.
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Sister Wynona Carr’s “The Ball Game” has found a new life in recent years -- nearly 70 years after it was first released!
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“I Picked It Up and Put It Down, God Turned My Life Around” by the Rev. Lionel Davis is that rare gospel song with a sense of humor.
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The Mighty Supreme Voices of Dallas, Texas, tear up their own composition, the funky “I Don’t Have a Friend Like Jesus.”
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The Mighty Skylights were part of the even mightier Vee-Jay Records' roster of gospel artists in the late 1950s.
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The legendary Cassietta George was a star both with the Caravans and as a solo artist, wrecking churches with songs like her rendition of "I Must Tell Jesus."
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You'll never hear a more powerful version of "Keep Your Hands on the Plow and Hold On" than this one by Sara Jordon Powell.
