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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When a member of the Dixie Hummingbirds missed a show, a member of the Sons of the Birds stepped right in!
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The glorious voice of Dorothy Maynor deserves to be better known today.
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The Rev. Willie A. Treadwell’s Treadwell Community Singers were much loved in their native Chicago for their rendition of old favorites like “Sit Down, Servant.”
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The Rev. Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Choir’s “It’s Gonna Rain” may be the best cover version ever of an Andrae Crouch and the Disciples songs.
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“It’s Going to Rain” is a live recording of the congregation at the Bethlehem Healing Temple lost in the throes of the Holy Spirit for nearly 16 minutes!
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The Staple Singers’ elegiac, mournful version of the ancient spiritual “The Virgin Mary Had One Son” is a great way to say goodbye to 2023!
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You’re not likely to hear a more creative interpretation of the old carol “We Three Kings” than this one by the Williams Brothers.
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The legendary Soul Stirrers recorded a handful of Christmas songs in the late 1960s, including the pop-oriented “Christmas Joy.”
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The Gospel Starlet’s version of the old folk spiritual “Children Go Where I Send Thee” owes much to legendary producer Phil Spector’s “wall of sound” approach.
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Odetta was a national treasure and her rendition of the old spiritual “Go Tell It on the Mountain” may well be the definitive version.