An Introduction to Gospel Song

RBF Records – RF 5

Format: Vinyl, LP, Copilation
Country: US
Released: 1962
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Gospel
[Tracklist]
A1 Roll Jordan Roll Fisk: University Jubilee Quartet (02:41)
A2 I've Been 'Buked/Most Done Traveling: Tuskegee Institute Singers (03:20)
A3 Leave it There: Pace Jubilee Singers (03:07)
A4 You Mother Heart Breakers: Rev. J.M. Gates and His Congregation (03:12)
A5 Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You?: Rev. J.M. Gates and His Congregation (03:51)
A6 I Looked Down the Line and I Wondered: Rev. F.W. McGee and His Congregation (03:20)
A7 Jesus the Lord is a Saviour: Rev. F.W. McGee and His Congregation (03:26)
B1 Did I Wonder: Sister Ernestine Washington with Bunk Johnson's Jazz Band (02:58)
B2 I am So Happy (Parts I and II): Lightfoot Solomon Michaux with the Happy Am I Choir and Orchestra (05:41)
B3 I Got Two Wings: Rev. Utah Smith and His Congregation (03:26)
B4 Psalm for Confusion: Mother McClease and her sons (02:48)
B5 When Mother's Gone: The Spirit of Memphis (02:53)
B6 He's a Friend of Mine: The Spirit of Memphis (02:45)
[Credits]
Producer and Liner Notes: Samuel B. Chartersm Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
From the Fisk Jubilee Singers' restrained vocal arrangements of spirituals to the jazz-influenced music of the "Happy I Am" Choir, gospel music may have changed its trappings, but the heart of the music remains. This collection includes songs and sermons from 1913 to 1954.