Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Noteless gospel

There are no liner notes for this. I think it's from Germany. The Greatest Gospel Music Meeting: A Night in Harlem is marked CBS S 62 767. I find nothing on line about this compilation. All songs are credited to Lion Publishing. Artists and songs follow: This Little Light of Mine (The Melody Kings of Los Angeles), New Burying Ground (The Mighty Superiors), The Unfolding Book of Life (Reverend Cleophus Robinson), Come and Go (The Soul Searchers), You Don't Have Nothing (The Dixie Hummingbirds), Life Is Too Short (The Cotton Brothers), Let the Church Roll On (Inez Andrews and The Andrewettes), Ain't Nobody's Business (The Starlight Quintette), I want to Ride (The Booklyn Skyways), When I Get In Glory (The Gospelaires), Softly, The Night Is Falling (The Kansas City Melodyaires), View the City (two parts; The Drexall Singers), and Gabriel (The Dixie Hummingbirds). Inez Andrews reminds me of the Reverend Shirley Caesar and a bit of Dorothy Love Coates. She sure had one hot piano player. So I find that Shirley Caesar and Inez Andrews were both in the Caravans. It appears that many, if not all, these tracks were licensed from Don Robey's Song Bird label. Most of these artists are on the archived playlists (and shows) of a radio station called WFMU-91.1 fm from a show called Sinner's Crossroads. This is an album that was kept for a reason. All apart from any others, a person can never listen to too much of the Dixie Hummingbirds.

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