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Growing up in a musical family, he was recruited as a teenager to sing with a gospel group. He later achieved recording and national fame with groups of musicians. In 1964 he started his own group, "Willie Neal Johnson and the Gospel Keynotes." They toured in the Southwest and also produced records for Nashboro Records.
Evelyn Turrentine-Agee (born February 4, 1946, as Ruth Evelyn Tyler), is an American gospel musician and artist. She started her music career, in 1992, with the release of In God's Own Time by A&M Records.
Depending on how the song is arranged and performed, it is known variously as a spiritual, hymn, carol, gospel song, or folk song. "Rise Up, Shepherd" was first documented in a short story by Ruth McEnery Stuart in 1891, where she likely transcribed a song overheard from plantation laborers . [ 1 ]
The exact origin of preaching chords being played in African American Baptist and Pentecostal churches is relatively unknown, but is mostly believed to have started in either the early or mid-20th Century, at a time when many African-American clergymen and pastors began preaching in a charismatic, musical call-and-response style. [3]
"The Gospel According to Luke" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Skip Ewing. It was released in February 1989 as the fourth single from the album The Coast of Colorado. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] The song was by Ewing and Don Sampson.
Cotton Patch Gospel is a musical by Tom Key and Russell Treyz with music and lyrics written by Harry Chapin and produced by Philip M. Getter just after Chapin's death in 1981. It ran off-Broadway at the Lamb's Theatre for 193 performances beginning on October 21, 1981. [ 1 ]
"Precious Memories" is a traditional gospel song credited to J. B. F. Wright in 1925. Wright was born in Tennessee on February 21, 1877. The song has been performed by a wide variety of famous recording artists, including Tammy Wynette, Bill Monroe, Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Daniel O'Donnell, Gerry Rafferty, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, a duet by ...
"Steal Away" is a standard Gospel song, and is found in the hymnals of many Protestant denominations. An arrangement of the song is included in the oratorio A Child of Our Time , first performed in 1944, by the classical composer Michael Tippett (1908–98).