Learning To Lean

Donald Vails is one of the gospel greats.  His choirs and “Choraleers” sang some wonderful music in the 70’s – 90’s.  This is a wonderful song feature a female trio of Millicent Nalley, Claudette Manners and Eleanor Butler.

 

  1. Learning To Lean The Donald Vails Choraleers 3:42

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(From Wikipedia) Donald Vails was born on December 25, 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia as Donald Raymond Vails, Jr., whose parents sent him to a nursery school at Gospel Choral Union, and this instilled in him a love of gospel music and the piano. He was reared in the church in his hometown at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. He was leading a choir by age twelve, and after high school, as an eighteen-year-old relocated to Detroit, Michigan to pursue a degree in engineering at Detroit Institute of Technology. While he was doing this, he formed The Choraleers in 1969. Vails relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1985 in order to attain a Master’s Degree in Music at Howard University. During this time, he became a member of Ebenezer AME Church located in Fort Washington, Maryland, and this caused the churches choir to grow from 40 to 175 participants in the span of a couple months time. He established, Salvation Corporation, during his time in D.C., which was an 80-member interdenominational choir.

He began his recording music career in 1977, with the release of Donald Vails Choraleers with Savoy Records.His sixteen albums made the Billboard magazine Gospel Albums chart, for five of those releases.[Those releases are the following; He Promised a New Life in 1984 with Savoy Records at No. 32, No. 17 for Yesterday, Today and Forever with Sound of Gospel in 1986, 1987’s Until the Rapture at No. 11 with Sound of Gospel, In Jesus Christ I Have Everything I Need again with Sound of Gospel in 1990 peaking at No. 26, and 1994’s A Sunday Morning Songbook at No. 33 with Savoy Records. They would achieve a gold album certification by the RIAA and a Grammy Award-nomination for their 1990 album, He Decided To Die, with Savoy Records.

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