LIVING LEGENDS OF GOSPEL VOL. 1 & 2

good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to a history making musical extravaganza tonight we're proud to be able to present to you the living legends of gospel performing together for the first time ever on one stage you're about to experience the pioneers who started it all please welcome your host for tonight's program the legendary mr lou rawls and witness the founding fathers whose direct influence helped to forge the popular music that we enjoy today welcome to the living legends of gospel welcome to the living legends of gospel music tonight you're about to witness some great great vocal harmonies something that today when you hear groups like the uh all for one voice to me and say wow that show is good ain't it but what you don't know is that something that's been going on for a long time singing praises to god and tonight you're in for quite a treat we've got groups and we're going to take you back to the roots oh i'd say from the 30s right up to the present day we talk about the beginning of gospel quartets and i'm telling you there have been some great ones and there still are and you're going for a treat tonight because you're going to hear some of the best welcome to the beginnings and we've got our first group up who's gonna do for you precious lord [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and let me stand lord i'm tired lord i'm weak [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] to the light take my [Music] alone [Music] it's all gone [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] trembling hands [Music] [Music] says [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] hold my hand [Music] take my [Music] [Music] when i rise [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh which way to go [Music] [Music] lead me off [Music] take my hand [Music] i think i want them on a while [Music] hold my hand [Music] take my hand [Music] [Applause] founded in nashville tennessee in 1866 by the american missionary association this university was an early pioneer in bringing religious music into the quartet tradition audiences were dazzled by the mixture of spiritual hymns and the sweet blending of melodic melodies like they had never been heard before the fixed university singers kept the doors open and opened the doors for black gospel singers the world over yes you know over the years folks there have been a lot of great quartets that have come along come down the road quite a few we've got a bunch of them here tonight we're talking about history one of the oldest quartets still playing around you know 1921 it formed and for it eight decades they've been singing god's praises around the country and the world for that matter yes this is a group when i was growing up in chicago on sunday morning we couldn't wait to turn the radio on because we knew he was going to him as they say in the field chirping and i'm talking about the world famous internationally known fairfield 4. oh [Music] [Music] brother noah you ought to hear the lord [Music] [Music] i know [Music] [Music] [Music] i know yes during the 1930s the all-black national baptist convention sold a paperback collection of favorite gospel hymns which they published they sold by the tens of thousands they had cornered the market with their collections of the gospel pearls born in villa vrica georgia thomas andrew dorsey was a child prodigy he mastered several musical instruments by his teens he had a special love of the blues and ragtime after being saved at a baptist convention in 1921 georgia tom as he was known dedicated the rest of his life to writing gospel music composing some of the most uplifting and inspirational songs ever written his works are a living treasure in which we all can share [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we're gonna have a good time we're gonna have a good time just for you we're gonna sing some of those old songs and some of the new songs just for you and we just like to say hello [Music] hello everybody some of those old songs just for you songs such as [Music] how [Music] [Music] until then [Music] from [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Applause] if [Music] i shall see the great king in all [Music] yes [Music] oh [Music] uh oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] i'll win this fight if jesus will make me whole [Music] [Music] in the world baptized [Music] come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] how my soul [Music] all right not only did thomas dorsey help shape the world of gospel in the 20s he coined the phrase gospel music before those words were spoken together the style was only known as evangelistic songs with such classics as precious lord and i'm going to live the life i sing about in my songs thomas dorsey laid the foundation that gospel music was built upon once again from the mouths of these men directed the ears of god welcome please the fair field [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] somewhere oh [Music] [Music] somewhere [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] in 1932 the first ever gospel singers convention was held at the pilgrim baptist church in my hometown chicago illinois the great depression had yet to loosen his grip on the poor of america and many were still looking for signs of open inspiration the gospel savings convention gave them that organized by thomas a dorsey and sally martin the event was attended by some of the finest gospel singers of the era the need for such a rally was evidenced in the tremendous turnout of more than 3 000 people that day in detroit michigan about 1952 there was a guy named robert blair uh he come on the scene and uh let me tell you turned it around i remember him doing because see there was a place in chicago called 3838 state street they called it quartet headquarters remember that croon yeah see used to meet up there boy listen it'd be the battle of the quartet like that battle of the bands we had battles of quartets because we didn't have no bands we didn't have the only thing we had was a guitar if we had that and that would have been somebody that went to the barn shop and got one yeah but right now folks we're going to bring up a group that's been around for a few minutes we won't go into how long don't say nothing just shut up ladies and gentlemen if you will welcome the violinist [Applause] [Music] turn [Music] is [Music] the love of jesus [Music] some people [Music] wow [Music] [Music] ah oh [Music] [Music] up [Music] some of y'all sitting there now looking at us kind of strange i know this rage here is not like the church but we are having service here and if god been good to you like you've been to me you're not denying kind of wave in your head [Music] i'm gonna ask y'all to do that one more time and see the song said i got so much [Music] to shout about just like lou ross was talking about [Music] laying down in the cars eating baloney if we could get one and i'm here to tell the talk about it right now the lord's been good too he won't be up early this morning [Music] y'all [Music] [Music] [Music] wow [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] how many of y'all know that the bible says that the jaw of the lord is your strength but how many of you know that the bible says that we've been made to do it for a night but god comes in the morning but i believe we can get some joy tonight i want you to reach over and grab somebody by the hand and lift it straight towards heaven grab somebody by the hand lift it up we get [Music] [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes yes yes in the late 1930s gospel music began to undergo a variety of notable changes one group with a heavy impact on that change was the norfolk virginia-based golden gate quartet another quartet on the cutting edge of the change was the dixie hummingbirds of greenville south carolina when lead singer ira tucker joined the group along with base singer william bobo the 1940s saw a new era of gospel music being ushered in with a strong focus on entertainment as well as spiritual enlightenment many more groups helped to contribute to that change from the famous blue jay singers to the mighty clouds of joy to the fairfield four who still toured today it was with great courage and foresight that these innovative quartets were able to create and sustain the transition from what was originally known as soft gospel to the newly defined hard gospel tradition [Music] i expect to be landed upon the show expect to be landed upon the show [Music] landed upon [Music] that jesus gave me [Music] [Music] the voice i heard sounds so sweet [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] forever [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] wow is that gospel is that what gospel is yeah but see they took and they still do it today they take gospel songs and just change the word yes yes instead of saying oh jesus save me and say oh baby yeah uh does that song stand by me that was a gospel song that's right yeah big big big song for the drifters when they cut it as a secular song yeah it was a bunch of them out there doing it too for and they still are you know something else i noticed too when y'all was going that's where doo-wop came from dewalt came from the gospel field they think it came from the rock and roll field because they didn't call it rock and roll and we were doing it back in the 50s and 60s they called it rhythm and blues yes that's right same thing that was present stole it and made all the money in the world the beatles stole it made more money listen we're going to continue the tradition of the true quartet let's give it up folks one more time for robert blair and the violin airs singing dr jesus [Music] [Music] [Applause] you make everything all right [Music] but all right [Music] [Music] yes [Music] he will be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] all right come on boy i'm just wondering tonight is anybody out there no doctor jerusalem [Music] have you ever did anything for you [Music] how many of y'all know he'll make it all right just wave your hand if you know [Music] you know what i'm glad about it [Music] [Applause] [Music] i don't have no doubt in my mind [Music] [Applause] [Music] wait a minute i wonder how many of the bills got to truly sit down said dr jesus told you i better know god many know him in the park all you're saying tonight i never will forget when the doctor said i wouldn't be able to say [Music] wow [Music] come on [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] yes say yeah yeah say yes [Music] why don't you jump to your face real quick and tell somebody i know he'll make it all right if you don't have no doubt in your mind about it why don't you jump to your feet real quick and say i know he'll make it all right [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] everything [Music] [Music] yes he will yes he will dr jesus with the advent of the newly formed hard gospel a new generation of gospel quartets came to be no longer confined to the passive senior soft message of the past the music now demanded a more entertainment driven stylized delivery this new form of exciting in your face preach to the music and the effect that it had on its audience came to be known as the show with a message for the saints and salvation of sinners the preachers would work their congregations to a fever pitch people would laugh cry get saved turn their life around or sometimes just fall out on the floor being totally overwhelmed by the magnitude and glory of it all and when the spirit of the lord descends upon a congregation everybody knows who's running the show is a major ladies and gentlemen it gives me great pleasure to introduce you a group of men who have been around for eight decades that's eight that's a long time to be singing god's praises but that's what it's all about it gives me great pleasure to present to you the fabulous world-renowned fairfield [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] [Applause] [Music] how many all know what i'm saying [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i would anybody know what i'm saying [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] how many of y'all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] anybody in the middle no god let me hear you see [Music] somebody said thank you jesus somebody give god some praise somebody said hallelujah [Music] yes the fairfield pool all right therapy of four this is thanking you for joining us tonight on being a part of the living legends of gospel god bless you and yours and you stay right on the path [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] john [Applause] [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to a history making musical extravaganza tonight we're proud to be able to present to you the living legends of gospel performing together for the first time ever on one stage you're about to experience the pioneers who started it all please welcome your host for tonight's program the legendary mr lou rawls and witness the founding fathers whose direct influence helped to forge the popular music that we enjoy today welcome to the living legends of gospel are you talking about putting some soul in your bowl i've seen him do it many times i'm talking about the one and only swanny quintet [Applause] [Music] we from augusta georgia augusta come on put your hand together and this is the way we sing in georgia augusta georgia [Music] i [Music] [Music] give me one more time [Music] shut [Music] oh [Music] i know you had a hard time [Music] i'm looking for my jesus come on i'm looking for my jesus [Music] i said i won't have to cry no more [Music] [Music] sit down [Music] in today's world hard gospel is the gospel of choice for most quartets it allows them a freedom to preach move sing entertain and deliver the gospel message in a way that was unavailable to the great soft gospel groups of the past the swannish took you there we go from south of the border of carolina and georgia go north now yes and what you're about to experience is called vocal harmonies vocal dexterity that's where preachers said dexterity put some movement in your feet some pattern in your hands give the raws a hand come on [Music] god bless you we're certainly enjoying ourselves here tonight but the real reason we're here is because we've got heaven on our mind how many want to go to heaven one day i know i do that's why we're here tonight because i've got heaven i've got heaven on my mind god bless you i started with jesus at a very early age [Music] yes i've known him nearly all of my life [Music] i admit there have been times when i faltered along the way but i'll keep trying because somehow i've got a baby [Music] you see i got a charge on my life and i've got a job to do and i can't stop until [Music] i can't stand around wasting my time i'm gonna keep on working for jesus [Music] [Music] i don't have time to waste someone else there are some things i'd rather leave behind let me send it to you and i don't have time to be bothered with he said that she said that they said you know what cause that's all i can do to keep myself [Music] all the way i can't stand around wasting [Music] i [Music] i can't understand how some people can move he is coming back [Music] [Music] well [Music] i can't stand around here [Music] i got help [Music] [Music] [Music] yes i am [Music] i can't stand around here [Music] oh [Music] i've got heaven [Music] [Applause] after world war ii america was ready to feel good again and nothing could make a body feel better than a great song sung by great singers with television not yet a mainstay the people turned to their radios for that feeling with the flood of popular black artists demand grew for their recordings and the record industry took notice record sales were on the rise and many groups were gaining notoriety from their own radio shows ladies and gentlemen will you please welcome the racy brothers [Music] [Music] i know it must have been [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody [Music] might [Music] somebody [Music] [Music] i know it must have been jesus but nobody else can touch back there i know y'all looking at a strange because they said we the youngest group but we stopped by to tell you that we know jesus too can i get a witness in this play now you know you've been born again and saved and not ashamed come on help a little the name of jesus can i get a witness in this place [Music] i got a story i need to tell you on my way home that same night my friends flagged me down they said tell me what do you mean about somebody that touched you i wish i had a witness don't you know all those people that was gathered around it could have been anybody that touched you i said no i said no i need some barbarians in this place anybody here tonight ready in saint mark around about the fifth chapter there was a woman who had been sick for 12 long years i got a witness in this play had been sick for 12 long years she had been going from dr the doctor and town of town had done to spend all of her money trying to find somebody to heal her body she heard about jesus [Music] she [Music] is [Music] somebody [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] just like this few groups dressed better worked harder or had more fun than the dixie hummingbirds with gifted lead singer ira tucker the bird sometimes made a show out of imitating the best gospel groups of the day in those days it was an unspoken taboo to do another group's work but when the dick's human birth did it hey it was an honor do you feel all right let me hear you see here any good something wrong here today some of you here you know the lord being good to you but you've been in city all [Music] can i get a witness here any good help god be good to you raise your hand pack a deal anymore [Music] listen you said [Music] come on put your hand together while we take it i got [Music] [Music] hey [Music] have a good time [Music] i got [Music] [Music] [Applause] come on [Music] let's have a good time let's have a good time let's have a good time [Music] let's have a good time [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] just have a good time [Music] hill [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] them [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] crazy [Music] [Music] man [Music] see [Music] [Applause] [Music] sunshine [Music] we gotta go going on up [Music] move up a little higher [Music] i'm [Music] hey [Music] [Music] [Music] moving on [Music] moving [Music] on wins it hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right [Applause] there have been so many great lead singers who helped to shape the face of gospel music it would require another show just to cover them all we must mention a few one is the great claude jeter whose vocal style is still imitated by some of the best vocal groups in music today when you hear a natural voice go high and then break into falsetto you can thank claude jeter he did it first ira tucker was simply one of the best gospel singers the good lord ever made the lead singer with the dick's human birds for over 35 years his vocals are legendary tucker specialized in having fun and being able to emulate some of the greatest singers of the time thank you for everything you've done looking back over my life remembering the times when i was too mean to live wasn't fit to die god looked beyond my faults and supplied me with my needs i tell you what i think i'll go around and have a little church in this building anyway but let me see the hands of those that know you've been blessed in here tonight good god almighty if you was able to get out of your bed this morning put one foot before the other look around your home see your family still on the land of the living that's a blessing let me ask that question again i said let me see the hands of those that know that you don't get to know that you know without a [Music] and if shadow not ashamed that your next door neighbor might be in the building i want you to get out of your seat right now stand on your feet lift those hands towards heaven let's magnify the name jesus somebody [Music] [Music] you don't want to call it i'm getting ready to sing with a song about how blessed i am and if you know that you know you've been blessed i invite you to come down this aisle and shake my hand would it be all right [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] i feel like it's a [Music] do you feel [Music] i feel like it's a pimple just to [Music] i wonder [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] but when i look back [Music] i can tell the world [Music] [Applause] gospel music has had some help along the way in bringing its message to the people pioneers like ernest young who founded nashville records and earned his record mark helped to make gospel music accessible to the listening public for over 20 years young broadcast his mail order business on wlac radio out of nashville tennessee and he offered discount rates to mail order customers the 50 000 watt clear channel radio station reportedly reached over 65 percent of the black population on sunday mornings that was the first thing that you did turn on the radio and listen to i heard the southland singing that was the first jubilee singer that was his theme song when he came on the radio [Applause] [Music] so many people talk about me but i'm going on well how many going on tonight you gonna do watching me down let me move on out of my way come on brother come on [Music] so many people talk about me but i won't let that hit up [Music] but i'm gonna [Music] [Music] [Music] this is the reason [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] but he's down in my heart [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] i don't know [Music] [Music] [Music] i got my [Music] oh [Music] i'm [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] my [Music] made up my mind [Music] uh [Music] i is [Music] do you believe [Music] [Music] i gotta go [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] you got the razer brothers swana quintet and luther and the sunset jubilees and we're going to do for you one of those gospel hymns goes back quite a few years glory glory hallelujah since i laid [Music] glory glory hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] glory glory hallelujah since i laid my purse [Music] like it is [Music] [Music] since i'm there don't treat me like they used to lay my girls down [Music] glory to you [Music] foreign [Music] my mother get yeah [Music] [Music] since i lay [Music] [Applause] [Music] mine glory hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Applause] glory glory hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] taught me how to talk made me wake up in the morning put shoes on my feet made me want a straight line and everything's gonna be all right [Music] [Music] [Music] and i know everything going to be all right i said glory glory hallelujah ever since i lead my burdens [Music] [Applause] [Music] something about [Music] [Applause] shoulders [Music] [Music] deep down [Music] see this young man this is my first cousin oh yes he's singing the soul sir and i sing with the 20 quintet we two first cousin okay let's call the lord yeah let me just call him [Music] [Applause] [Music] one thing i want to say your cousins there's one thing i want to say we are brothers and sisters in the name of my god yes we are yes we are yeah yeah [Music] [Music] by the way [Music] happy [Music] [Applause] this is thanking you for joining us tonight for being a part of the living legends of gospel god bless you and yours and you stay right on the path [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] get all over your i got the job [Applause] [Applause] [Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to a history making musical extravaganza tonight we're proud to be able to present to you the living legends of gospel performing together for the first time ever on one stage you're about to experience the pioneers who started it all please welcome your host for tonight's program the legendary mr lou rawls and witness the founding fathers whose direct influence helped to forge the popular music that we enjoy today welcome to the living legends of gospel i want to go where jesus is is the song the mighty clouds of joy tommy ellison and the soul searches yeah yeah yeah [Music] yeah yeah yeah what you say [Music] [Music] i wanna go [Music] you know [Music] look when the time comes that's the reason [Music] oh yeah one thing you know [Music] no more sickness over there [Music] that's the [Music] [Music] you this is what he would have said i got a mother over there [Music] he would tell you that i got a baby again [Music] [Music] i used to like to hear him say this don't move [Music] y'all gonna leave me alone tonight oh you're gonna come on up here troy what i'm feeling pretty good right now i can feel the spirit moving [Music] [Music] did you hear me [Music] tonight [Music] [Music] no more sickness over there come on y'all where jesus is you know no more no more sickness over there wow [Music] john [Music] that's the reason [Music] look tell me wait a minute i remember in los angeles california [Music] we used to go over laurel's house to rehearse when we were just a young group he was traveling with the people traveled and soul stars and all of those great groups so don't y'all fool yourself lu know a little bit about this song how do i know we didn't rehearse it with you but i just want you to just sing one verse is that all right with y'all come [Music] on up there [Music] i want to go [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] did you start [Music] to pray had you started on your way did you ask the lord to protect you and you walked around all through the day didn't you put your hand in god's hand and said leave me on and you asked my [Music] [Music] listen [Music] did you [Music] did you stop somebody should stop and pray every morning oh we better leave that thing [Music] all alone put your hand in my god's hand i said everything is gonna be all right put your feet on the path walking straight down the line going on to my god he's watching you all the time you can't get away no matter what you say trust in my god he'll make everything everyday it's gonna be all right it's gonna be all right [Music] put your hand in the hand [Music] and he'll lead you to the promised land your friends may talk about it [Music] they might stab you in your back but don't you worry about a thing god's gonna make everything all right when you wake up in the morning you say thank you jesus thank you for another day thank you for leading me on my way [Music] [Music] [Music] lou i want to ask you a question right now do you feel all right i feel so good so good what you say so good so good do you feel all right joe oh i feel good why don't y'all put them hand together y'all come here brother [Music] i will ask you a question tonight yeah have the love been good to you do you feel her i right now right [Music] is [Music] we better cut this thing off [Music] [Music] oh [Music] it's be [Music] [Music] when i listen at the shoes there [Music] [Music] [Music] i said it's all right [Music] all right [Music] it's all right yes we thank you so much for being here with us beginning around 1945 and up until about 1960 gospel music enjoyed what has come to be known as the golden age of gospel it was a time when the artists recorded their music because they loved it and the people loved and because they had something to say new groups were appearing on the scene regularly while established groups enjoyed a national popularity that launched them to star status it was a great time to be a singer a great time to be a listener and a great time to hear the very best that gospel music had to offer mighty clouds of joy now i'm going gonna perform for you get him joe come on [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] did you make your step behind [Music] don't [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] yes yes yes see now the mighty clouds are joyous see when we were kids and i was just yeah i was with a pilgrim travel i was a kid i feel comfortable they were kids and we used to used to come to my mama's house and rehearse because they thought i knew i was doing but it was alright well it was it would we did it anyway but that was you know we were listening to wlac radio out of nashville tennessee yes he could we that's why we heard all the gospel music see oh yeah then you can get them yeah you can get them packages you know they said by the mighty clouds of joy packaging you get the mighty crowds of georgia the soul serves dicks human birds spirit of memphis swanny quintet all for 495. plus shipping we didn't ever get none of the money but see the thing of it was being played on the radio was the thing because then when you go out to do you do your concerts folks and heard you on the radio so they'd come on out and see you and them was good days you know and fortunately we were like i said young and dumb and didn't know no better so it didn't make no difference we were doing what we what we thought was right we did what we liked and we were happy tommy ellison i want to ask y'all a question ain't god good tonight [Music] as i look around over the audience [Music] somebody haven't unfold your homes yet tonight good has he been to you [Music] i don't know whether you're ashamed i think somebody might laugh at you if you say amen you got to die for yourself ain't that's right y'all yeah oh i i hope you don't mind if i [Music] take time out to tell you how good god been to me have you been good [Music] just raise your hands and say thank you jesus in 1996 right here in nashville tennessee oh i wish i had somebody to pray with me [Music] the devil tried to destroy i was covered in the blood of jesus [Music] [Music] oh i feel my helper come at night i got a sound that i would love to sing [Applause] [Music] let it be [Music] [Music] would it be all right if i i sang a little bit more of it [Music] come on i have a true story tonight about a young man come from a good family his mother and father always told him son never drive while drinking [Music] but he wouldn't listen like a lot of us we won't listen he was hardheaded i used my mother used to tell me that [Music] that's the way this young man was but one night ladies and gentlemen that's franklin but y'all give him a hand nashville you know what happened he hit a little girl she died [Music] [Music] oh y'all know what i'm talking about don't you but it's one thing i found out about mama no matter how wrong her child feels won't mama stand by her child one moment [Music] oh i know somebody might look at me strange y'all go ahead and look at me that's all right somebody might even call me crazy go ahead and call me crazy but good as a lot better to me [Music] y'all excuse me [Music] i feel good now do y'all feel all right well if you feel all right shake somebody's hand tell them you laughing [Music] oh when mama walked in she looked at him on the sun she had you know what you're told maybe somebody told your daughter or your son these same words you know what mama told him [Music] she says [Music] [Music] [Music] lord have [Music] that's mercy right after six months oh i told y'all a few minutes ago i feel my helper coming y'all know what i got to say that no more my helper have already gone wow after six months [Music] he was released from jail he promised his mom that he would never drive drunk again but to say the sanders y'all don't mind if i get close to you do you the young man didn't keep his one promise [Music] oh i wish i had somebody to help me one night while driving drunk brother he hit a lady [Music] they're taking him back today but this time [Music] on his dad come to sleep when his daddy walked in he looked up at his daddy [Music] my he said where is mama his father looked at him with tears in his head said it's too late [Music] he said but i got to oh [Music] young man [Music] [Music] you know what i want y'all to do if the lord been good to you i want y'all to join in with me like we used to have those old-time revival meetings and let's sank this together would that be all right [Music] please [Music] yes family [Music] [Music] well i got up this morning i had legs to walk i had a voice at home i had to see my way around can i get a witness i [Music] [Music] not my power [Music] come on [Music] [Music] everybody [Music] i [Music] [Music] oh oh [Music] i'm gonna tap [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] wow oh [Music] [Music] i [Music] you can rule your legs [Music] but you got to go home you gotta go today [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] the power of god [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] get all over your [Music] the dog [Applause] hey [Music] [Applause] a large part of the success that some gospel groups attained was due to some innovative pioneers at wlac radio in nashville tennessee hoss allen a veteran dj at wlac was one of the first people in radio to appreciate the gospel sound and he was a trailblazer for black artists and groups he sold many a recording through ernie's record shop let me tell you and was instrumental in helping promote black recording artists of all types of music in my 36 years of traveling almost five years ago we were in england young man came in the lobby of the hotel and called me on the house phone and said joe what has been the most outstanding thing in your career you've been to the white house spain africa japan all over the world you won grammys and stellars he said but what stands out in your mind the most and i said to him something that happened in a little town called roy chester new york i saw a man coming through the crowd saying who is joe logan of the mighty cloud someone pointed me out new and he walked up to me he said i'm so glad to meet you he said a few weeks ago my wife passed but i want you to know church this is not made up this is the truth and he said i was at the crossroad i i had lost my job she left me with five little children he said i didn't want to be a father to nobody so one day he said i went in the room and got the gun he said i was gonna kill all of my children and then kill myself he said i wasn't the same man he said but my wife was saved he said i used to see her play your records and he said before i can make up my mind to destroy my family i put on one of the clouds records and he said i don't want to bother you he said i just want you to know that through your music i'm saved today [Music] he turned around and tried to walk away he said but one thing i want you to know there's so many things that can be taken from you he said but i got something and i got someone ain't nobody [Music] somebody come on and help me back there listen [Music] how many know what i'm talking about right now and you can [Music] wow [Music] you know what you can do [Music] oh [Music] what that man was talking about in the last five or six years joe logan went through something mark the devil's trying to steal my joy into the hospital and told me that i want to leave the hospital but my grandmother always told me [Music] she said you can't beat the devil [Music] and you can't do nothing about it how many of you inside i got somebody ain't nobody [Music] tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh i feel pretty good now [Music] i know what everybody was thinking about i got it [Music] god bless you [Music] [Applause] the mighty clouds the mighty clouds enjoy i've seen him grab joe when he was little i'm still so just to grab joe boyden would take six or seven poke and try to get him off of him yeah cause he was looking cute nancy [Laughter] the mighty clouds of joy one thing i thank the lord for [Applause] i'm glad that i'm not a selfish singer [Music] you see people we have a lot of singers that don't ever get happy till they sign can i get a witness [Music] not only that we got a lot of preachers [Music] that don't ever shed a tear until he preach you need that old-time religion the kind of religion that can make you feel [Music] all night everybody i've been in the back but i've been looking and listening oh when i heard big red those 20 quintet in person i feel good what a lot of slows down set my soul on fire [Music] [Music] go back to his [Music] wow [Music] i've been watching the crowd tonight some of y'all been acting a little too dignified [Music] oh i'm getting ready to sing yeah mr jerry peters is on the keyboard who has have produced it for many years [Music] god almighty i want to tell you sophisticated folk over-educated folks y'all like you sometimes well lucky loud out of the way [Music] i'm not trying to be mean to put nobody down [Music] but you ought to be able to feel something sometimes if it's not the mighty clouds singing but you should have felt somebody tonight you didn't feel nothing you don't have anything well nothing from nothing leaves nothing wow i said well i'm not in the church but you see you heard earlier somebody said i believe we lose that the church is in the heart can i get a witness tonight but i just believe tonight i haven't seen too many folks get up and do that holy ghost thing you ought to have something to get in your feet sometimes good god almighty some folk like to wait till sunday morning but you're gonna let him use your advertising and i believe we got some holy ghost folk here what i'm getting ready to do something now i've been doing it a long time you hear many groups do it but i put it on record i call every day of the week and i'd like to see the folks who are not ashamed to get out and say that's the day yeah god changed my life oh yeah you gotta be glad you can walk the night well god is a wonderful god he made you perfect you can raise your hand and work your fingers at the same time thank god [Music] but if you ain't got nothing you don't have to move but you didn't know you got something you don't care who knew you're gonna put your hand together [Music] [Music] wait a minute [Music] [Music] i'm talking about that heavy lunacy somebody [Music] somebody [Music] is [Music] i tell you what i want i want to see the hands of about 10 saved people that know you're saying and don't care who know it [Music] well i see more than tin hand i want a fellowship with somebody when i finish the rest of the day i want somebody to get up and come on down here grab my hand let me know you're not ashamed somebody told me another day i heard him say yes i did [Music] my feet got can i get a witness somebody's ashamed tonight because we hear somebody else told me this good god of mine i heard him saying this is what they said [Music] hey [Music] but if you know jesus if you believe he's when i call this last day i want somebody that have a mood tonight i want some money to come down here you got to shake my hand and you got to let me know that you've been born again and i'm ashamed somebody told me i heard i'm saying this is what they said [Music] i'm not satisfied just a few minutes ago i asked for 10 saves that know you've been saving don't care who know it now i'm going to ask you one more question i won't treat people that believe that god is real when i raise the music i want you to get up come on down here i want a fellowship with somebody you could be a man a woman as [Music] holy [Music] [Music] somebody come on down somebody somebody you know he real god [Music] been real let me see somebody holy don't smoke god [Music] [Music] you could be in a hospital of the night but god gave you another chance at him thank you thank you [Music] all right the mighty clouds of joy this is thanking you for joining us tonight on being a part of the living legends of gospel god bless you and yours and you stay right on the page [Music] is [Applause] [Music] i got the job god [Applause] [Applause] [Music] you good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to a history making musical extravaganza tonight we're proud to be able to present to you the living legends of gospel performing together for the first time ever on one stage you're about to experience the pioneers who started it all please welcome your host for tonight's program the legendary mr lou rawls and witness the founding fathers whose direct influence helped to forge the popular music that we enjoy today welcome to the living legends of gospel when you listen to your favorite pop artists today acts such as whitney houston boys to men and many many others in a sense you're listening to the great gospel groups of the past such was their influence bridge over troubled waters the paul simon classic was inspired by an ad-lib from the great claude jeter when he sang i'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name from sam cook to wilson pickett the temptations to aretha franklin and a hundred more the great gospel groups of yesterday are still alive and singing in the music of today right now you're gonna be graced with the sounds of the soul stirrers [Applause] [Music] [Music] been tempted [Music] somebody cares when things go wrong somebody's loved is there to guide you and make you so strong i [Music] have a friend and he's above all others his love is [Music] it's yours just to know him [Music] god's love for me but i only know it cannot be measured it's deeper than this [Music] my god alone you can always bring with me gladness i'm filled with joy i'm filled with [Music] i know him the savior's divine a friend of mine [Music] wave your hands foreign [Music] i'm filled with joy i'm filled with joy because i know him the savior's divine a friend of mine [Music] wow [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're gonna continue with some more music from the sonic quintet folks [Music] inside of me [Music] there is a line that had set me free and i know [Music] there is a light [Music] set me free and i know so glad so glad i know [Music] that jesus [Music] we will be [Music] sacrificed [Music] when [Applause] he will lead you [Music] foreign [Music] everywhere i go i'll let my life show [Music] that [Music] you know what [Music] jesus [Music] he will keep you he will keep [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] set you free [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to you out there i'm gonna have god in good shape let me see raise your hand give god a praise today come on [Music] he died one day that we all may leave so he died and we all may have a right to the treatment so i want to give him the praise and the glory that they think is yours [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] hallelujah um [Music] without your support your visibility we would do it anyway but it's better when we got somebody to feed it to and let it be fed back to us because that's what makes it work when you throw out the spirit and the spirit comes back yes put a little tangle in your feet put your hand over there you go thank you oh baby i know that felt good didn't it they lift your burdens lift your cares live your woes satisfy your soul well well go to it brother [Music] well [Music] [Music] bless my mom and my dad that's my mom and my dad [Music] [Applause] is is that all right let me hear you say yeah let's be easy yeah oh oh yeah [Music] [Applause] that's the one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] bless the alone [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen please welcome if you will troy raymond and the soul searchers god has been especially good to me because i remember a time that when they would come to town i would always have my ticket in the line to see him can i get a witness kept on trusting me and praising god one day a group called the gospel elves stop by and pick me up we joined up with the mighty clouds of joy and we went all over the world and i'm saying this because a lot of people don't know this but the clouds of joy have been a great friend of mine great friends there was a time when i needed money to send home to my children i went to the mighty clouds of joy can i get a witness can i get a witness joe the arm was always wide open and they even give me the opportunity wants to sing for them i love the mighty clouds of joy but how many of y'all know if you live long enough there's gonna be some rain in your life if you live long enough there gonna be some heartaches and that gonna be some pain but if you wait on the lawn won't it make a way for you well i was not going to sing the way i want to sing right now because god has been good to me and i'm going to let my light shine wherever you may see me i'm gonna let my light shine i won't leave this with you tonight if there ain't been no rain in your life wait a while wait a while [Music] but there ain't been no rain in your life [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] found a job they can't find peace of mind [Music] [Music] it's falling down [Music] when you lose your [Music] when you [Music] i wanna see your hands [Music] y'all great [Music] many a rock and roll artists owe more than a little of their success to gospel singers who walked the road before them jared lewis carl perkins and one of the biggest elvis presley who was often called the king of rock and roll we know that ain't true but the deal was that's the way it went down now they were heavily influenced by the gospel courts that they grew up listening to on wlac out of nashville tennessee from early on gospel music has been woven through the fabric of all forms of music that we know and love today [Music] [Music] my [Music] about to [Music] with me day and night i work hard for your jealousy [Music] [Music] i know you stand by your words stay with me lord very well [Music] well done [Music] are you tired do you time had a hard time [Music] um [Music] i got a [Music] i know you're waiting for me [Music] it wasn't long before the best of what gospel had to offer was updated to meet the demands of the secular side of the music world visionaries such as barry gordy founder of motown records was one of the first to borrow the soulful harmonies of the gospel quartets he rearranged them to a modern field and dominated the recording industry with hit after hit on his artist many came over from the gospel field to sign on his label and were tremendously successful come out bro this is my baby brother and he's going to sing for you now my favorite song put it all in god's hand y'all pray with us [Music] so [Music] [Music] i put it all [Music] i could not bear [Applause] [Music] oh i was standing [Music] when i did not [Music] know which way to turn but you know what put it on [Music] i did listen [Music] i put it on [Music] the problems [Music] lord is too hard [Music] when i could not do things on my own jesus gave me the strength [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and it's all become [Music] [Music] the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i put stretch out your hands [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i know it's getting late and it's time [Music] i remember what my granddaddy told me when i first found a loud [Music] it's just right for god am i right about it isn't anybody in you ever been sick seem like the most [Music] [Music] [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Music] the influence of the early gospel groups wasn't just borrowed by the greats of pop blues and rock and roll many of today's contemporary christian artists a living testament to the impact that gospel court has made on all types of music listen to the artist such as andre crouch the roots of gospel music are evident from his harmonies and his soul for delivery of a sermon wrapped in a beautiful melody other contemporaries such as the brother and sister duo bibi and cece waning as well as kurt franklin keep up with their early predecessors but with a modern feel can i get you to help me says jesus can i hear you why i left a call on the name of jesus i found out that there's power have i got a witness on that tonight in that name there is your joy in that name there's pc in that name and i can go back and do another song for you and tell y'all what it did for me can i take what it did for me can i tell you what it did for me this is what he did he [Music] is [Music] tell me [Music] [Music] and who do you [Music] for the think [Music] [Music] oh [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Music] i know [Music] i know [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] i know [Music] [Music] after reaching its peak in the mid 1950s the winds of change began to affect many of the gospel quartets of the time more emphasis were being placed on the instrumentation while the powerful vocals once the backbone of the gospel quartet began to take a backseat to the driving beat many groups came off the road after their heyday many adapted to the change many new groups answered the call the gospel quartet wasn't lost it was merely growing in a new direction many new groups were able to carry the torch respectably and build upon what those early pioneers had carved out of love necessity and their undying spirit troy raymond and the soul searchers yes [Music] [Music] [Music] do you know how to lean on it do you mean it stand on your feet come on come on come on come on [Music] i told y'all to stop back there something wrong with them y'all they just won't stop can i get away do y'all know how to leave put your hands in there [Music] come on all right [Music] when we come back [Music] but i told him i trusted him on my life and he never failed [Music] [Music] [Music] please [Music] leading all along i want somebody here [Music] i think [Music] can i get a witness here just [Music] [Music] i'm please [Music] [Music] please [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me [Music] right now we're gonna bring tommy ellison as he does the performance well tommy [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right but first i want to ask y'all do you feel all right out there [Music] joe you know what's that i was taught to respect [Music] all ladies [Music] but it's one thing about a special kind of lady nashville tennessee [Music] i i just can't help myself [Music] you know who that is [Applause] [Music] you might see her walking down the street that christian lady that crystal she's only out there to make ends meet that christian lady that christian she's not the kind that will treat you wrong she's the kind that will treat you right and every time she touches something you can always see the light shining [Music] [Music] that is [Music] that christian lady [Music] she's not the kind brother that will treat you wrong [Music] she's the kind that will treat you right [Music] and every time she touches something you can always see the light shining through that christmas light i'm talking about that christmas [Music] on my children's faces [Music] a real good wife [Music] i wish i had somebody to help [Music] [Music] working radio [Music] we hope you've been lifted this evening we hope the spirit of god has touched you tonight you have had some of the best of the best we want to thank you for joining us to give praises to god almighty and this is just the beginning [Music] it ain't over yet there's more to come so we're going to say right now god love you god bless you you take care we'll be back and catch you on the other side all right this is thanking you for joining us tonight for being a part of the living legends of gospel god bless you and yours and you stay right on the page [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] get all over your [Music] i got the job [Applause] hey [Music]

Channel: Devyn Antwan

Views: 13,626

Rating: 4.7583079 out of 5

Keywords: THE FAIRFIELD FOUR, ROBERT BLAIR & THE FANTASTIC VIOLINAIRES, WILLIE ROGERS, THE SOUL STIRRERS, THE SWANEE QUINTET, LUTHER BARNES & THE SUNSET JUBILAIRES, THE RACY BROTHERS, TOMMY ELLISON & THE SINGING STARS, THE MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY, WILLIS PITTMAN & THE BURDEN LIFTERS, TROY RAMEY & THE SOUL SEARCHERS, LOU RAWLS

Id: x16ADQoHVF8

Length: 219min 20sec (13160 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 29 2021