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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"How Much Do I Owe Him" is a classic country blues by the Gospel Music Hall of Famers the Swanee Quintet -
The unknown Messiahs of Glory deliver a devastating rendition of the gospel classic, "How I Got Over."
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Esther Smith recorded her first album at the age of 51, the aptly titled I Believe in Miracles with the famed Winans family.
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Essie Moss brings her legendary fire to the gospel rave-up, "Satan, You Won't Win the Fight."
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They called Brother Joe May “The Thunderbolt from the Midwest” with good reason – the man could flat-out sing!
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Gospel music’s least recorded superstar, Willie Mae Ford Smith, could make grown men weep with “The Lifeboat is Coming.”
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Stanley Keeble and the Voices of Triumph let it rip on Keeble’s powerful composition, “I Feel Good.”
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“I Can’t Stop Loving God” is 9 and half minutes of memorable gospel frenzy by the Bethel Pentecostal Choir of Grand Rapids.
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Kristle Murden’s coloratura soprano elevates every song on her debut LP, including “I Can’t Let Go.”
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Mildred Clark & the Melody-Aires were legendary church wreckers, as this live version of “My God Can Do It All” surely attests!
