Playlist

Song-Artist-Album

1. One Day - Angelics and Dixie Hummingbirds - Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
2. Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone? - The Soul Stirrers-
3. Out on a Hill - The Soul Stirrers - Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
4. How Jesus Died - Pilgrim Travelers - Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
5. (I’m Glad) Salvation Is Free - Mahalia Jackson -
6. Jesus - Robert Anderson - When Gospel Was Gospel
7. The Hammer Rings - Mme. Edna Gallmon Cooke -Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
8. What Manner of Man Is This? - Willie Mae Ford Smith - The Great Gospel Women
9. What Kind of Man Is This? – Caravans - The Great 1955 Shrine Concert
10. What Manner of Man Is This? - Jackie Verdell with Davis Sisters
11. The Sun Didn’t Shine - Alphabetical Four - As Good as It Gets Black Gospel
12. What More Can Jesus Do? - Morgan Babb and The Radio Four - The Radio Four
13. That Day on Calvary - Swan Silvertones - Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
14. When He Spoke - Clara Ward and the Ward Singers -I Feel the Holy Spirit
15. Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down - Marion Williams - Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
16. That Old Rugged Cross - Marie Knight w. The Nightingales – Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter
17. He Arose from the Grave - Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter

Leonard's Christmas Gospel Music Special

Leonard celebrates Christmas with his annual holiday gospel music special. Here’s the playlist:

Christ is Born (Marion Williams and Alex Bradford/Black Nativity)
Have You Got Room? (Edna Gallmon Cooke/Springfield Bap Ch, Wash., DC)
No Room at the Hotel (Jessie Mae Renfro – Gospel Sound of Spirit Feel)
No Room at the Inn (Mahalia Sings Songs of Christmas)
Go Tell It On the Mountain (Mahalia Jackson - Apollo Sessions)
Silent Night, Holy Night (Gospel Christmas w. Mahalia Jackson)
No Room at the Hotel (Chosen Gospel Singers with Lou Rawls)
Great Day in December (Claude Jeter and the Swan Silvertones)
No Room at the Inn (Marion Williams -- O Holy Night)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Marion Williams - Through Many Dangers)
Poor Little Jesus Boy (Mattie Williams -- Black Nativity)
The Holy Babe (Mahalia Sings Songs of Christmas)
Mary, Mary, What You Gonna Name that Pretty Little Baby? (Frances Steadman and Marion Williams -- Black Nativity)
What You Gonna Name Your Baby? (Christmas with Shirley Caesar)
When Was Jesus Born? (Marion Williams – O Holy Night)
White Christmas (Complete Sis. Rosetta Tharpe)

Good Friday - 2008

Good Friday - 2007

Good Friday - 2006

NPR interview of Robert Darden about the Black Gospel Restoration Project.
Includes Little Richard Gospel recording from early 50s

See
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17450335&sc=emaf

NPR.org, November 27, 2007 - Clarence Fountain and his legendary gospel group have won four Grammy Awards in as many years. In this program, they present their own take on Christmas classics, along with some gospel favorites like "I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord."   more »

New multi-media collection at the Library of Congress concerning the hymn "Amazing Grace" that "explores its history through items from ...   more »

Leonard plays some of the greatest Easter recordings from the golden age of black gospel on his annual Good Friday gospel show.

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Live at the Apollo - YouTube Clip

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YouTube clip from The Blues Brothers movie

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From Leonard Lopate on New York Public Radio
...some lesser-known sounds of the season—some of his favorite recordings from the Golden Age of Gospel to the Present.

See http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2006/12/25

See also

2005
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2005/12/23
2003
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2003/12/25
2002
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2002/12/25

The first in NPR's new "Discoveries at Disney Hall" series...

... young gel with an awesome voice   more »