We’re Trying To Reach Our Heavenly Home

Some more good old-time gospel for a friend who loves this music. I’ve never heard of the Gospel Starlets of Brooklyn New York, and couldn’t find a bio on them. They made a great sound though!

 

  1. We're Trying To Reach Our Heavenly Home Gospel Starlets of Brooklyn, New York 2:45

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He’ll Understand And Say Well Done

For all of you who might be hankering for a shot of good old traditional gospel, I have just the song for you. Here is “He’ll Understand And Say Well Done” by Philadelphia’s renowned Davis Sisters recorded in 1955.

 

  1. He'll Understand And Say Well Done The Davis Sisters 3:20

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Count Your Blessings

“So my brothers and my sisters, stop counting your problems and negatives in your life and start counting your blessings” Amen.

The female leads singing with Timothy Wright are fantastic; they leave you wanting more!

 

  1. Count Your Blessings Reverend Timothy Wright & The NYC Fellowship Mass Choir 4:10

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Oh, FYI, I turned on a new feature that shows “related” songs at the bottom of each post, but to be honest, I’m not sure HOW the songs might be related; they are more random than related.  They are selected based on the tags I’ve assigned to each song and it’s clear I need more granularity in my tags for this to work correctly.  Nonetheless, it’s a nice feature and a good way to get to some more good songs without having to go back to through the archives.

The Holy Spirit

Another offering from the great Keith Pringle, with a little help from The Pentecostal Community Choir,  Ricky Grundy and Jeffrey LaValley.

I was going to say something like “this is one of my favorites”, but that is getting a little trite by now and, since I pick the songs to post, each one is a favorite or I wouldn’t share it to begin with. Nonetheless, this song IS one of my favorites!!  Great recording too…great separation.

 

  1. The Holy Spirit Keith Pringle and the Pentecostal Community Choir 5:39

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I Can’t Feel at Home (in this World Anymore)

Nice old skool gospel from the New Jerusalem Baptist Church under the direction of the talented Jeffrey LaValley.  Love it when the sopranos come in with the soaring, high “can’t feel”.  The verses of the song are just a bit longer than the great vamp that runs about 2:30.

 

  1. I Can't Feel At Home New Jerusalem Baptist Church 6:30

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How Long Til He Comes

The name of this group might say “Youth Choir”, but it’s impossible not to think this is a finely polished adult choir. I’m always so impressed with the magnificent job these young people do. Hurray for organizations like The Gospel Music Workshop of America for offering programs for young singers to develop their musical skills.

 

  1. How Long Til He Comes GMWA Youth Mass Choir 5:30

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Home

Another classic song from gospel great, Ms. Myrna Summers and The Dallas Fort Worth Mass Choir!

This song is an amazing 9 minute opus that opens with a wonderful 3 minute, 45 second solo intro by Myrna who is then joined by the whole choir for the rest of this soulful, moving song.  This is gospel at it’s best.

 

  1. Home Myrna Summers/Dallas Fort Worth Mass Choir 9:09

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Walk and Talk

If you liked yesterday’s offering from The Benedict College Gospel Choir, you’ll love this piece of traditional gospel from them.

 

  1. Walk And Talk Benedict College Choir 3:37

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Just As Soon (I’ll Be Shouting)

Last week I posted another version of this song performed by The Chicago Mass Choir. Today we are revisiting the song performed this time by my favorite female gospel singer, Beverly Crawford.

Hang on to your hat and get ready to clap your hands and stomp your feet as you listen to this great song that grabs ya from the first beat.

 

  1. Just As Soon (I'll Be Shouting) Beverly Crawford 5:06

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Side note: I was trying to find out the name of the choir backing Beverly up on this cut, but failed to. What I did find was a web page listing some of the relevant influences on the song as attributed by Pandora’s Music Genome Project. I’m not so sure that any aspect of the vocals on this song are “subtle”, but it’s fun to see what they picked.

 

Features of This Track:
R & B influences
a subtle use of vocal harmony
mild rhythmic syncopation
acoustic rhythm piano
mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation
major key tonality
prominent organ

These are just a few of the hundreds of attributes cataloged for this track by the Music Genome Project.

 

Climbing Higher Mountains

A cut from Aretha Franklin’s 1972 double platinum, Grammy winning, “Amazing Grace” album. Great uptempo, traditional gospel, and a wonderful reminder of what an amazing voice “The Queen of Soul” has. The only problem is the song is WAY too short; you’re left wanting a lot more.

 

  1. Climbing Higher Mountains Aretha Franklin 2:46

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