SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments
Sundays 8:35 am; Mondays at 4:48am. 6:48am, 8:48am and 5:48pm.
Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories -- and plays recordings -- from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community, and the influence they have had on the rest of American music.
SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments has also been selected by the panelists at Feedspot.com as one of the Top 10 Black Gospel Podcasts on the web in 2024!
Latest Episodes
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The Sunset Jubilaires, led by the multi-talented Barnes brothers, had a gospel hit in 1983 with “Let’s Go to Church on Christmas Day -
Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s idiosyncratic reading of the old Christmas carol “Silent Night” is probably like none you’ve ever heard!
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The Meditation Singers’ lone Christmas album, A Christmas Dedication, features this delightful doo-wop of “Blue Christmas.”
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Archie Dale and the Tones of Joy’s gospel songs could match the best R&B groups of the late ‘70s and early 1980s.
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The Rev. Cleophus Robinson was one of the finest of the gospel preachers – as witnessed by this snippet from The Back-Sliding Heifer.
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The Swan Silvertone’s rendition of the beloved freedom song “This Little Light of Mine” features solo turns from all of the quartet’s great singers.
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Famed bassist Fred Hammond leads Detroit's J & J Community Choir of Detroit on a fiery closing version of "When the Saints Go Marching In."
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The pride of South Carolina, the Gerald Sisters have released passionate, high quality traditional gospel music for more than 40 years.
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Deep-voiced Jimmy Jones was one of the few lead bass singers to lead his own group – the Sensationals – in the history of gospel music.
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Detroit’s The Shackleford Singers bring the gospel funk with their explosive record, “Been to the Water.”
