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| Dj: Gideon Area: London Genre: Gospel | |
| Welcome to the second instalment of my vintage gospel show. Opening with The Original Gospel Harmonettes – “You’ve Been Good to Me”. |
| Dorothy Love Coates penned this track and also features as the lead vocalist. The Harmonettes were possibly the most successful female gospel groups of the 1950s. Dorothy wrote many of their hits and also many hits for other artists. She and Mahalia Jackson teamed up on many occasions and one of their genius collaborations was “You Can’t Hurry God” (the best of Mahalia’s killer early recordings). Next up is an incredible gospel-soul fusion 7″ that just arrived in my gospel box from Tennessee,”I’m Not The Sam Man” by The Shaw Singers. Funnily enough in my quest to get my hands on this tune I ended up chatting to the son of The Shaw Singers. He helped me find a copy of this on vinyl and also told me that his mother and father are still performing together every Sunday. The also run a gospel radio station WOJG. The last track I’m gonna mention is Marion Williams – “Mean Old World”, recorded at the first black gospel concert ever in the Netherlands in Utrecht, November 1962. Amazing. PS; Excuse the rewind just 15 seconds into the first track,,,I guess I got a little bit over excited at Dorothy Love Coates…she is propper bad bad though… |
