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This song appears in The Peter Yarrow Songbook and on the accompanying recorded album, Favorite Folks Songs. Entitled as "Don't You Weep, Mary", this song is on The Kingston Trio album Close-Up. Jazz guitarist Eric Gale made a recording of this song in his 1977 album Multiplication, as the opening track.
Marion Williams was born in Miami, Florida, to a religiously devout mother and musically inclined father. She left school when she was nine years old to help support the family, and worked as a maid, a nurse, and in factories and laundries. She began singing in front of audiences while young.
Eastern Orthodox icon of the Praises of the Theotokos, before which the Akathist hymn to Mary may be chanted. Marian hymns are Christian songs focused on Mary, mother of Jesus. They are used in devotional and liturgical services, particularly by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches. [citation ...
Labeled "one of the most important gospel singers of the century" by The New York Times, Smith is considered a pioneer in the same vein as Thomas A. Dorsey, the "Father of Gospel Music". [15] While Dorsey wrote 1,000 gospel songs and set standards for gospel choirs, Smith created the "openly emotional and spiritually exuberant performance style ...
Her mother died when she was two years old. Her father later remarried Arzulia Thomas.Her father, a coal miner, was often out of work during the Great Depression. [2] Andrews traveled a tough road to gospel stardom. She began singing as a child in church and began songwriting as a young mother in Birmingham.
Sue's latest project "Then Sings My Soul" was released in 2022, she describes it as an eclectic collection of some her favorite songs. In 2023 Sue was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame. In 2024 Sue Dodge celebrated 55 years in Southern Gospel Music.
According to Nelson, he wasn't trying to copy Presley by recording an EP of spiritual songs, but he understood that he "was welcomed as a cleaned up Elvis." [ 2 ] The EP was released on compact disc by Capitol Records on June 19, 2001 as tracks 21 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Nelson's ...
Gary McSpadden (January 26, 1943 – April 15, 2020) was an American pastor, singer, songwriter, record producer, television host and motivational speaker. He had musical roots in quartet music and Southern gospel with The Statesmen, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Imperials, the Bill Gaither Trio, and The Gaither Vocal Band. [1]