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Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...
The rich history of Black gospel music. Black gospel music traces its roots back to slavery when enslaved people sang call-and-response songs such as “Roll, Jordan, Roll” and “Swing Low ...
What most African Americans would identify today as "gospel" began in the early 20th century. The gospel music that Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith and other pioneers popularized had its roots in the blues as well as in the more freewheeling forms of religious devotion of "Sanctified" or "Holiness" churches—sometimes called "holy rollers" by other denominations — who ...
Nino and the Ebb Tides released a version of the song as a single in 1961, but it did not chart. [4] Ted Knight released a version of the song on his 1975 album Hi Guys. [5] John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band released a version of the song on the 1983 soundtrack album for the film Eddie and the Cruisers. Kenny Vance sang lead on the song. [6]
Gray was a dynamic performer on stage, who could be gritty or suave as the song dictated. [3] He was the first singer (of many) to praise a sound system on record, with his "On the Beach" celebrating Clement Dodd 's Sir Coxsone Downbeat system in 1959, one of the first releases on Dodd's Studio One label.
Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan is a tribute album independently produced by Jeffrey Gaskill of Burning Rose Productions, Ltd. and released under license on the Sony/Columbia label in 2003.
Traditional gospel music is older forms of gospel music. Traditional black gospel, which originated among African-Americans in the early 20th century; Gospel blues, whose popularity peaked in the 1940s and 1950s; Southern gospel, also known as "white gospel" Bluegrass gospel, religious songs out of the bluegrass folk music traditions
"You Gotta Move" is a traditional African-American spiritual song. Since the 1940s, the song has been recorded by a variety of gospel musicians, usually as "You Got to Move" or "You've Got to Move". It was later popularized with blues and blues rock secular adaptations by Mississippi Fred McDowell and the Rolling Stones.