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This song was first released in 1979 as rock disco, written and performed by R&B songwriters McFadden and Whitehead. [1] The New Keynotes were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Detroit, Michigan, and the American Gospel Quartet Hall of Fame in Birmingham, Alabama in 1999. [1]
"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.
Gospel Plow" (also known as "Hold On" and "Keep Your Hand on the Plow") is a traditional African American spiritual. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index , number 10075. The title is biblical, based on Luke 9:62.
The cover of Frierson's Have You Been Good to Yourself. Johnnie Frierson (June 25, 1945 – April 20, 2010) was an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. After a short-lived musical career with Stax Records, he served in the U.S. Army and worked as a mechanic, carpenter, and teacher.
By the mid-1970s, the phrase "contemporary Christian music" (CCM) had been coined by Ron Moore [9] and the first edition of CCM Magazine was published in July 1977. CCM now was a combination of traditional gospel music, Southern gospel music, Jesus music artists, and in some cases a style of big-band music with Christian lyrics. [10]
WOW Gospel 2002 is a gospel music compilation album in the WOW series.Released February 5, 2002, it includes thirty songs and two bonus tracks on a double album. It reached 46 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2002, and hit number one on the Top Gospel Albums chart.
Akers received many awards including back-to-back "Gospel Music Composer of the Year" in both 1960 and 1961. "Doris Akers Day" was held in Kirksville, Missouri in July, 1976. Akers was the headline act of the city's American Bicentennial celebration, with approximately 20,000 people attending an evening concert.
Douglas Lee Miller (December 31, 1949 – February 5, 2021) was an American gospel musician.He started his music career, in 1984, with the release of, I Still Love the Name Jesus, that was released by Atlanta International Records.