Sunday morning gospel: Charles H. Gabriel, Part 2

For eighteen years or thereabouts, I've been collecting songs by the brilliant gospel songwriter Charles H. Gabriel, both in the form of sheet music and recordings. More than three hundred vinyl and shellac finds later, I stand amazed at how versatile and prolific the guy was (he typed, electing to avoid a second use of "prolificness," having decided the word sounds awful).

Today, another multiple-version playlist. Included is the only recording I've found, to date, of Pentecostal Power, a songbook standard but a rarity on disc. Luckily, it's a great version--a solo piano gem by Flora Jean Garlock. As a Volunteer doesn't show up very often, either, though I've managed to find four versions. We'll be hearing two of those.

And... we get to hear Charles himself, on a 1922 duet with Homer Rodeheaver on the Rainbow label.

Click here for Charles H. Gabriel, Part 2

PLAYLIST

WHERE THE GATES SWING OUTWARD NEVER (CHG)

Homer Rodeheaver and Charles H. Gabriel, duet, 1922.
Homer Rodeheaver and Henry Burr, 1927.
Old Southern Sacred Singers, 1929.
Ron and Pat Secrest.

SINCE JESUS CAME INTO MY HEART (Rufus McDaniel-CHG)

Revivaltime Choir, 1969. Homer Rodeheaver, 1915. (From Victor 78) Merrill Staton Choir, 1958. Lebanon Valley Gospel Band Chuck Wagon Gang, 1973.

JUST WHEN I NEED HIM MOST (William C. Poole-CHG)

Paul Schumacher, 1978. Bob Daniels. George Zinn, tenor.

AS A VOLUNTEER (W.S. BROWN-CHG)

Dean McNichols, organ. St. Paul Bible College Male Quartet, 1966.

PENTECOSTAL POWER (CHG)

Flora Jean Garlock.


Lee

Burtsong cyber-premiere: Bacharach and Stone's "I Need You" (1957)

This 1957 Wilson Stone-Burt Bacharach number isn't listed in Serene Dominic's Burt Bacharach: Song by Song, nor does it show up on the House Is Not a Homepage discographies. It does get a brief mention in the Song By Song text, but as a Stone-Bacharach title that was never recorded. Hence, the non-listing.

Luckily for us Burt nerds, it turns out the title was recorded. And it's a lovely song, if not terribly original or Burtesque--I really love the bridge. It's kind of Love Me Tender-inspired, especially in the backing vocals. It works for me, though I suspect many a Burtologist will find it lacking in, well, Burtness.

Priscilla Wright does a terrific job with it--I could listen to her forever.

Anyway, how often do I get to break an undiscovered Burt? Not that the recording doesn't show up at all via a Google search--a handful of matches turn up, but not as a Burt song. So maybe I could term this a semi-discovered song--i.e., one that people knew about but didn't know the significance of.

Discovering the existence (and quickly getting a copy) of this baby made a very pleasant distraction from the malware problems I was battling last week. Burt to the rescue!

Click here to hear this cyber premiere: I Need You (Wilson-Bacharach)

Though released in the U.S. on RKO Unique, it was recorded for Sparton Records (of Canada), a label whose roster included Paul Anka.

This time, I'm nearly certain you won't hear this anyplace place--on the Net, anyway. (Now watch someone prove me wrong!)



Lee

Christmas vocal classics!

I call this zip file "Christmas Vocal Classics" because every selection includes a vocal at some point. And because I couldn't think of a better title.

And speaking of better, my PC is waaaaay better, now that the malware is noware. I mean, nowhere. What a difference its absence makes. Which means, of course, I'll have to take back the annoyed words I wrote about Box.net, Savefile.com, and Windstream, since none of these folks appear to have been responsible for the fun, thrill-a-second excitement I was experiencing.

My apologies to all three. They were innocent.

As for innocence, mine is gone forever. I'm a shell of my former happy and hardy self. I will spend the rest of my days dribbling my lips as I stare blankly into space. But not until XMas posting is done, of course. I'll put it off at least that long.

Our playsleighlist starts with the shockingly controversial and incorrect Happy (Gasp!!) Holiday, from 1955. And to think it was cowritten by Jimmy Carroll, the arranger who gave us the Sing Along with Mitch sound. This is not to be confused with the Irving Berlin Happy Holiday. Just goes to show that the war on Christmas started way back. My sustained sarcasm is starting to hurt, so we'll move on.

The Baby Dolls return with their 1964 recording of Burt Bacharach's The Bell That Couldn't Jingle. Baby Doll Angie sent this file to me in 2006 with this cool story: Baby Dolls, 1964.

And... wow. Just a whole bunch of cool reruns, including a barbershop version of The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot, and the really, really, really, really delightful Have a Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry XMas. To the sounds:

Christmas vocal classics.

SLEIGHLIST

HAPPY HOLIDAY (Carroll-Starr)--Jimmy Carroll O, w. Scotty MacGregor, 1955.
THE BELL THAT COULDN'T JINGLE (Bacharach-Kusik)--The Baby Dolls, 1964.
CANDY LAND PARADE--Art Mooney and His O., 1950.
CHRISTMAS CHOO CHOO TRAIN--Art Mooney O., 1950.
THE SLEIGH (Richard Kountz)--Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians, 1950.
SING A KRIS KRINGLE JINGLE (J. Fred Coots)--Bobby Stewart.
PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS--The Sandpipers w. Mitch Miller, 1951.
SANTA CLAUS IS FLYING THROUGH THE SKY--(Treasure TLP 824)
THE LITTLE BOY THAT SANTA CLAUS FORGOT--The Sun Tones.
A CAROLING WE GO (J. Marks)--Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, 1966.
BRIGHT, BRIGHT THE HOLLY BERRIES (Alfred Burt)--Same.
'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS--(Treasure TLP 824)
MY FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE--Same
HANG YOUR WISHES ON THE TREE--Les Baxter's O. and Cho., 1952.
HAVE A MERRY, MERRY, MERRY, MERRY XMAS (Ruth Lyons)--Ruby Wright with Cliff Lash and His O. and the Dick Noel Singers, 1957.


Lee

Virus and spyware scan in safe mode--now underway

Boom, boom, biddy-boom-boom. (Suspenseful percussion)

Per Ernie's advice, I'm doing another scan--this time, in Safe Mode. Took me a few restarts to remember how to get into Safe Mode, but my PC is there. Meanwhile, I'm here (on Bev's Dell).

It would be cool to think I've solved the upload/Google-search issues by isolating the three Trojans, but we'll see.

And it had grown to three of the things by the end of the scan. I should learn to distrust any software that looks like a huge wooden horse.

Meanwhile, in the event you haven't, check out Ernie (Not Bert), where approximately a zillion holiday shares are up, give or take a million.

And... keep in touch with Diane Werts' Christmas Shows on TV guide at TV Worth Watching. Buy her book (Christmas on Television) while you're there, too--it's a great piece of pop culture scholarship, and a fun read. Great combination, no?

Meanwhile, on Christmas at Lee's Blog, can the PC be saved? Stay tuned....


Lee

My, my....

I just renewed and updated my AVG anti-virus (which, it seems, includes anti-spyware). I'm running the first scan, and two Trojan viruses were found. The source of my browser dysfunction? Hm....

I can't wait to instruct AVG to consume its captured prey. Heh, heh, heh!

I'll let the scan finish, though....

Fun with computers

We'll be calling our tech, Steve, to come over and find out what is crippling the operation of my computer on the Internet. The modem? Malware? Some setting on my spyware program? (Some real-time-scan operation I'm not managing to disable?) Our Windstream "service"?

I've had two or three rage episodes over this, I'm not proud to say. The "power" light on the modem seems to have stopped working after I slammed the modem repeatedly into the computer desk. One of the plastic legs came off, too--dunno if I can slip it back on. However, it's working.

Yes, time for the tech to come in. The problem has to be resolved, or blogging will become impossible. And I'll have to find some other hobby. I can't even imagine that. I can't even go there in my head.

I hope Steve can get to the bottom of this weirdness, and I hope it doesn't involve taking all the freaking programs off and putting them back on, or something equally horrible.

I suspect it's Windstream, but it could very well be some disagreement between my PC and the guardian software. I just don't know.

I do know that a ten-year supply of patience has been exhausted over the past several weeks, and it's a long stretch to 2018.

Wish me luck.

Lee

Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association: Home for the Holidays 1996

A cassette (49 cents, from our local Goodwill) featuring gorgeous, Muzak-y versions of traditional carols. By "traditional," I mean that Silver Bells and Chestnuts Roasting... are absent from the playlist. All of these are hymnal standards, save for Jingle Bells, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and (probably) O Holy Night.

"Traditional," of course, is one-million-percent relative, like "authentic." This is why I clarify.

Way back in the past, when The First Noel was new, there were probably people complaining on behalf of the old songs that were being forgotten in favor of the latest titles. "Hey, play something traditional!" "We are! No, wait a minute--I guess this stuff isn't traditional yet." "Well, I can't imagine such crap lasting past today, let alone entering the Great American Carolbook!" "American? What's that?" "I don't know. Did I say 'American'?"

Just an imaginary back and forth from way long ago. Only at MY(P)WHAE.

As we speak, GAC experts are debating whether or not to induct Susie Snowflake and C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S. Stay tuned to this blog for any further developments.

Click here to hear the uncredited artists of Home for the Holidays 1996.

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AWAY IN A MANGER
THE FIRST NOEL
JINGLE BELLS
O HOLY NIGHT
DECK THE HALLS
O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
WE THREE KINGS
SILENT NIGHT
JOY TO THE WORLD


Lee

Christmas Bells--2--Played on the World's Only Piano-Vibraharp

What, you ask, is a piano-vibraharp? I have no idea. (Oh, wait--there are notes.) Okay, here we are: "The Deagan Piano-Vibraharp is neither a piano nor a vibraharp." I think that clears it up.

Actually, according to the essay, the instrument is a vibraharp, albeit one mounted vertically and played like a piano, thanks to the piano portion of the combo. So, really, while it's not a piano, it is a vibraharp. (As if I had any idea one way or the other.) Anyway, it was invented by J.C. Deagan in 1921, and his company made six of the things. Report the notes, the lone surviving model was restored in the 1980s, requiring more than 600 man hours. I'm therefore guessing that the "choice restorable condition" description in the text is intended to be ironic.

Probably an inside mechanical-music-device-restoration joke.

So, the Christmas carols and songs we're about to hear (which run the gamut from Jingle Bells to The Little Vibraharp--er, Drummer--Boy) come from QRS player rolls. Nice arrangements, all. The Deagan piano-vibraharp produces a very mellow sound, if you ignore the mild machine noise made by the vibrato-producing part of the gizmo. It's not too intrusive, at least through headphones, but I thought I'd warn everyone, anyway. It's no big thing, but it's there. And, with these Sennheiser monitoring phones of mine, if it's there, I hear it.

A fun and interesting Christmas cassette, courtesy of Goodwill. Worth every penny of the four bits (plus tax).

Since this is a mechanical instrument, I listed the instrument as the artist. Wow--I sure hope automated music doesn't become commonplace. It's fun, but could you imagine a world of music mechanically and/or electronically inscribed?

The zippy zip file is here: ZIP FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE

PLAYER-ROLL-LIST

JINGLE BELL ROCK
THE FIRST NOEL
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
JOLLY OLD SAINT NICHOLAS
WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCK
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY
STAR OF THE EAST
JOY TO THE WORLD
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE CHRISTMAS
AWAY IN A MANGER
TOYLAND
CHRISTMAS CHIMES
SILVER BELLS
I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE
CHRISTMAS IS COMING
DECK THE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

P&E Music, 1984.


Lee

From wondermark.com

Click on image to enlarge. Many thanks to my sister for linking me to this.

Original image at http://wondermark.com/store/card_blog.jpg


Lee, laughing

The March of the Three Kings (Ralph Vaughan Williams), from Hodie (1953-1954)

The wonderful Nativity story certainly rates as one of the most enduring popular myths, as unpopular as old-fashioned myths may be nowadays (or the idea thereof). Truth, in a story? No way. Things are or they aren't. Truth equals fact, and nothing more. Joe Friday had all the answers, we now know. That's a fact.

Hodie composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, an agnostic, wouldn't pass muster with today's Dawkinsites, and not because he was an agnostic vice an avowed atheist (such fence-straddling is bad enough in Richard Dawkins' book), but because he found value, of all things, in Christian mythology. If you read Huff-Po and Daily Kos, you know that religious myths are meaningful only to the extent that they're dangerous. Believe the manger story, and the next thing you know, you can't think critically. Which, in turn, leads to the end of the world. That's how it works, and those charges are easily proven. Okay, they're not. But they're fashionable, which is more important.

Somehow, though, I can't imagine people of the future--say, 2,000 years from now--telling the story of how the evil virus called religion was consuming logic and reason, until our species was rescued by the vigilance of Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher. Two problems: as myths go, it lacks pizazz, and it's so very dumb, I can't imagine people thinking about it 20 years from now, let alone 2,000. Otherwise, it has the makings of a great and lasting narrative.

No, the Nativity story endures because it contains significant meaning. Ralph Vaughan Williams' March of the Three Kings (from the Christmas cantata Hodie) digs deep into the core of that meaning. From the text by Ursula Vaughan Williams:

"From kingdoms of wisdom secret and far
Come Caspar, Melchior, Balthasar;
They ride through time, they ride through night
Led by the star's foretelling light."

Notice how the music and words move masterfully from mournful to majestic, sometimes in the the blink of a cosmic eye. One section sums up the March:

"Crowning the skies
The star of morning, star of dayspring calls,
Lighting the stable and the broken walls
Where the prince lies."

The contrast between the star of morning's bright, "foretelling" light and the broken walls of the stable--that's what the wonderful Nativity myth is all about. The majesty and humility of Christ's birth are one and the same.

But what's majestic about humility? According to the Nativity myth, everything. That's why Vaughan Williams' music for the manger story sounds, in spots, like the soundtrack of 1963's Cleopatra. He was being loud on purpose.

Two recordings of this piece, from 1990 and 1965--and a bonus Hodie track, Bright Portals of the Sky, featuring a 17-century text by Scottish poet William Drummond.

Click here for the three selections: March of the Three Kings.

1) Hodie: The March of the Three Kings: From Kingdoms of Wisdom--London Symphony Orchestra cond. by Richard Hickox; Elizabeth Gale (mezzo-soprano); Stephen Roberts (baritone); London Symphony Chorus; Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral; 1990.

2) Same--London Symphony conducted by cond. by David Willcocks; Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk, soloists; Bach Choir and The Choristers of Westminster Abbey, 1965.

3) Bright Portals of the Sky--Richard Lewis, tenor; 1965.



Lee

Box and Savefile, dead again (Actually, an infected PC)

UPDATE: Several days after writing this, I discovered three Trojan viruses and two unidentified infections on my PC. Box and Savefile were most likely functioning just fine, but I didn't know it.

I can't remember ever having this much trouble getting anything done, blog-wise, but maybe I've suppressed the memory. At any rate, once again, Box.net and Savefile.com have joined the Choir Invisible in a two-for-one deal. Neither site is accepting files for upload.

More music at first opportunity, whenever that is.


Lee

Merry Shallacmas! Part One.

I'm happy to report that, after noticing all of the dust in the photo (well, actually, the dust on the turntable), I went to work with a moist cloth removing said fine, dry particles of matter. Needless to say, using Pledge on a turntable surface is a no-no. Using it on the discs themselves is even more of one.

Not that I've ever tried. So far, my dumbest cleaning stunt would have to be the alcohol on the Hi-Tone Art Landry disc, which I thought was (but, found out, wasn't) vinyl. Instant disaster.

Anyway, none of these tracks are disasters (he said, expertly segueing). Quite the reverse. All were ripped by me from shellac that I own, so the results, good or bad, are all my doing. The biggest job of all was splicing out all of the POPs and BOOMs, but that was all (save for one title) last year, and am I glad. Yes?

I mean, am I glad? Yes.

Yes, 2007 repeats, all. And I've dusted the Dual at least once more since then. We've got this Christmas-shellac-posting thing down pat. To the ancient sounds:

Merry Shellacmas! Part One

TRACKLIST

CHILDREN'S SYMPHONY (Haydn)--Prince's Orch., 1913.
ON A CHRISTMAS MORNING (L. Currie)--Prince's Orch., 1911.
JOY TO THE WORLD--Trinity Choir, 1911.
OH, COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL--Trinity Choir, 1911.
SILENT NIGHT, HALLOWED NIGHT--Hayden Q., 1908.
CHRISTMAS HYMNS--SELECTIONS--Francis J. Lapitino, harp, 1925.
PARADE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS (A: Grofe)--Paul Whiteman Orch., 1928.
YULE-TIDE--A CHRISTMAS FANTASIA--Arthur Pryor's Band, 1912.
SANTA CLAUS TELLS ABOUT HIS TOY SHOP; GIVES AWAY HIS TOYS--Gilbert Girard, 1921.
CHRISTMAS HYMNS AND CAROLS--Trinity Choir, 1921.
DANCE OF THE LITTLE DUTCH DOLLS (A: Grofe)--Paul Whiteman, 1931.
SILVER BELLS--Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm, 1950.
NAZARETH--CHRISTMAS SONG (Gounod)--Frank Croxton, Bass, 1912.
KIDDIES' PATROL (CHRISTMAS EVE), KIDDIES' DANCE (CHRISTMAS MORNING) (L. Currie)--Brunswick Concert Band, 1920.
MERRY CHRISTMAS--SLEIGHING SONG--Olive Kline, 1914.


Lee

The Inland Children's Chorus--The Story of Bethlehem (1954)

1) The Story of Bethlehem.
2) The Inland Children's Chorus, 1956

From three twelve-inch vinyl 78s comes The Story of Bethlehem, as told and sung by the Inland Children's Chorus under the direction of Richard Westbrook.

From the excellent Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic Orchestra website: "One of Dayton’s greatest by-products of industry, the Inland Children’s Chorus, joined the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra in December of 1937. The 100-voice chorus, directed by Richard Westbrock, was founded and maintained by the Inland Manufacturing Division of General Motors for the children of its employees. This special concert began a tradition that kicked off Dayton’s holiday season for almost 20 years. Many long-time patrons still recall the traditional long blue dresses worn by the girls and the boy’s Eton-style jackets." The chorus was formed around 1935. (If anyone knows the exact year, please let me know.)

The presentation is beautifully straightforward--therein lies its enormous charm (to me, at least). No gimmicks, no frills, and everything thoroughly and professionally prepared. The purest kind of popular culture.

As far as music blogging goes, Christmas is the only time of year when it's officially okay to appreciate such "outsider" fare as choral singing (including children's), solo organ music, and--to an extent--white gospel. That none of these categories are remotely outside of anything--well, that's a mere technicality. What matters is that they're anti-rock'n'roll. Mostly, it's the participatory and communal qualities of such music that renders it wrong by rock standards--making your own music is a nearly lost art, in the sense of holding a songbook and singing from it, or taking piano, oboe, flute, or singing lessons. Do-it-yourself has become copying riffs from a hit recording. And, of course, sounding as much like the original (i.e., correct) recording as possible.

Which isn't making your own music as much as cloning someone else's. Nowadays, everyone has to sound like someone else. Envy the kids who were allowed to sound like themselves.

I'm saying all of this because Christmas gives me the proper window. Until I got on the Internet, I had no idea anyone was labeling everyday, make-your-own music as "outsider." At least this ritual of contempt is reversed once a year in honor of Christmas--once being better than not at all. Family, and community, and children--those things we normally disdain in the name of rock and HBO--become precious staples of life.

Well, really, they're things we pretend to disdain. In fact, we love these things beyond words. But this is the only time during which we can admit it. Maybe we should all resolve to keep on loving out loud those things we love most, even after the holiday season has expired.

(Pompous? Me??)

Speaking of things to love, here's The Story of Bethlehem (in six mp3 files):

Inland Children's Chorus--The Story of Bethlehem (Pts. 1-6)




Lee

A Line Material Christmas, 2008!

It is time, yet again, for a Line Material Christmas--an M(Y)PWHAE holiday tradition. We'll start with the link to a page that explains Line Material: Cooper Power Systems.

Oh, and I just found better, longer info at another site: The Line Material Co.

All we really need to know (for the purposes of this post), is that LM annually produced cool Christmas give-away 45s from around 1956 to at least 1964. If you're wondering why the music sounds so spectacular on these street-lamp-company holiday affairs (I've always wanted to type that), consider the talent involved: choral arranging by John McCarthy (of Ambrosia/John McCarthy Singers fame) and instrumental arranging by David Carroll (of Mercury). I know for sure they were behind Santa's Factoree, and I'm guessing they're the architects of/on the others. Line Material was apparently able to hire the best, though I'm guessing that John McCarthy's services were cheaper prior to his 1961-66 stint as choral director for the London Symphony Orchestra. (What do you mean, I guess too much?)

The Magic of Christmas is courtesy of Ernie (who snail-mailed me the small, vinyl 78-rpm disc last year), and the 1964 file (The Story of Santa Claus) was kindly provided by Stubbysfears.

You'll love these, even if you've heard them before. If you haven't, prepare to be spending the next several weeks singing "Merry Christmas, from Line Material. (Repeat X3, fade)."


Click here for the fun: Line Material Christmas, 2008!

SLEIGHLIST

THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (Year Unknown) UPDATE: 1956!
SANTA'S NORTH POLE BAND (1957)
THE KINDS OF CHRISTMAS (1958)
THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS (1959)
SANTA'S FACTOREE (1960)
THE DAY THAT SANTA WAS SICK (1961)
LET'S TRIM THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1962)
THE STORY OF SANTA CLAUS (1964)



Lee

A Lee original--Stairway to Yuletide (2007)

Savefile.com is having its weekly site crash, so I sent this to Box.net. In this piece, Stairway to Heaven meets the Sugar Plum Fairy. I hate Stairway to Heaven, which is why I enjoy not taking it seriously. Note: I used Noteworthy Composer to compose this.

Click here to reach file: Stairway to Yuletide--Lee Hartsfeld (2007)



Lee

Sunday morning gospel: Charles H. Gabriel, Part One--a multiple-version-emphasis post

I've been collecting songs by Charles H. Gabriel for, oh, about eighteen years, both in the form of sheet music and recordings. More than three hundred vinyl and shellac finds later, I stand amazed at Gabriel's versatility, prolificness, and continued popularity.

Example: An Evening Prayer, written by Gabriel and C.M. Battersby around 1911. Here's a 1915 recording by mega-popular evangelist/songleader Homer Rodeheaver:

An Evening Prayer--Homer Rodeheaver (Victor 17714).

So... we travel to Youtube and find other versions of this classic by Elvis Presley, Marty Robbins, and the late, great Metropolitan Opera bass Jerome Hines. If I had my Mahalia Jackson version ready to upload, I'd include it, too.

Gabriel's stuff gets around. Great songs, thankfully, have a way of doing that.

Gabriel, whom I talk about and feature all the time at MY(P)WHAE, also gave us the music (and, fairly often, also the words) for Send the Light, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Higher Ground, His Eye Is on the Sparrow, and scores of other gospel standards. The emphasis in today's playlist is on multiple versions. So, enjoy. (And enjoy. And enjoy. And....)

Click here: Charles H. Gabriel, Part One

PLAYLIST

BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE (Ina D. Ogdon, Chas. H. Gabriel)

Homer Rodeheaver, 1922.
The Browns, 1960.
Billy Byrd.
Heavenward Bound.
Chuck Wagon Gang, 1973.
Ella Fitzgerald, 1967.
Ralph Carmichael.
Lebanon Valley Gospel Band.
Alan McGill.

SEND THE LIGHT (Charles H. Gabriel)

Chuck Wagon Gang, 1959.
Rudy Atwood, piano.
Fairfield Highlands Baptist Church Choir.

HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW (Civilla Martin-Charles H. Gabriel)

Harry K. Shields, 1924.
Blue Ridge Quartet, 1966.
Mahalia Jackson.
Revivaltime Choir, 1969.


More to come!


Lee