@ Online // Facebook Starting out humbly by broadcasting from a Chicago car dealership in 1963 and for the next twenty-one years of Sunday mornings, Sid Ordower presented the Emmy award winning Jubilee Showcase , a powerful half-hour of the finest Gospel music America had to offer. Many artists now considered legendary performers from Gospel music's golden age got their start on Ordower's show or made their first televised appearance [...]
Everybody's having a good laugh about the prediction that Saturday will be the End of the World . And yes, we've snickered about it right here. But look around - there've been tornadoes, tsunamis, wildfires and floods, maybe that's a sign of the End Times. All of our heroes - Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, Arnold Schwarzenegger - are crumbling before our very eyes. Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga are on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend - another sign? You can't ignore these signs. You definitely cannot laugh [...]
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlMTa I5FIY John Carpenter 's drummer Joe Albanese happens to be a Youtube connoisseur and general master of music entertainment. He can engage a group of people for days on Facebook in a race to name bands with the word "black" in the their names. Today he sent over a link to the video seen above, "Old Electric Boogie," a Youtube gem, inspiring us to launch a new L.A. RECORD weekly blog column. IT'S ALL FOR YOU, TUBE will feature a Youtube Mixtape contribution from someone really cool who [...]
( pic via ) More straight-up gospel than last week's , except where it isn't. It keeps an eye on the afterlife, there's the whiff of a narrative... though I wouldn't pay too much attention to themes or stories as I liberally appropriated any directional intent for the cause. (The Staples' classic is now, of course, about nothing but Chevrolet automobiles.) Not much in the way of brimstone, though it's hard not to admire Reverend Nix' bald contempt for his congregation. Of the belters in these 80 minutes - Coates, Mahalia, that [...]
Founded in Houston in 1948, ACA Recording Studios was first known for its R&B recordings, a place where Johnny Ace and Lightnin' Hopkins cut a number of their sides along side lesser known artists who appeared on the Peacock and Duke labels. Within 10 years, Ray Doggett, Royce Porter and assorted country and rockabilly artists began to cut their records on ACA's Ampex mono recorder. The studio's founder, Bill Holford, continued to work into his seventies, mastering records on a home four-track long after ACA closed. Here's a sampling of some of the artists who recorded [...]
These videos go along way in showing how gospel music is related to the blues. I hope that it helps the frat boys, the aging boomers and the corporate blues fans to go deeper into the roots of the blues. I know that it helped me to understand the relationship between these two great American music forms that I have been listening to all my life. And not that it matters how you came to the music, it just helps to understand where the music came from. The History Of Gospel 01 This [...]
James B Davis Sr, 1916-2007 James B Davis Sr, founder of the Dixie Hummingbirds , has joined the heavenly choir. He passed April 17 at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia of heart troubles at age 90. Davis was born June 6 1916 in Greenville, South Carolina. He started his group just before the Great Depression at age 12 in 1928, billed early on as the Sterling High School Quartet. An early visit to the National Baptist Convention in Atlanta got a strong reception, motivating them to tour. They got [...]
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