Favorite Gospel Tracks, Part 10--Phipps Family, London Philharmonic Choir, George P. Zinn

Not much time to write about the tracks--maybe tomorrow.  Except to note that Let the Sunshine In is not the Stuart Hamblen song, whose main title is Open Up Your Heart--this Sunshine has an 1895 text by Ada J. Blenkhorn and music by Charles H. Gabriel, possibly from the same year.  Was a very popular number at one time.  And that The Royal Telephone, featured here in a 1972 recording by the Blue Ridge Quartet (Burl Ives did a fine version, too), was penned in 1919.  The all-time great gospel number Hark, Ten Thousand Harps and Voices, which I've only found this one recording of, has an 1840 tune by Lowell Mason and 1806 words by Thomas Kelly.  The London Philharmonic Choir did a quick run-through as part of a medley, so I isolated and doubled it with MAGIX, doing an overlap and fade.

I wish I could have found out who the Burton Sisters are or were.  Many of my older CD-R rips lack tags besides artist and title--this could be a Musicmatch burn.  The LP is no longer in my gospel rows, so I traveled to cyberspace to find mention of it--no success.  Zero info.  But we know they existed.  And that they recorded Herbert E. Buffum's gospel mega-classic of 1904, I'm Going Through, also known as I'm Going Through, Jesus.

Great stuff today--enjoy!  Meanwhile, I need to get a Part 11 ready.  I think I have the required number of tracks--just need to rip them.










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When We All Get to Heaven (Hewitt-Wilson)--Ralph Carmichael Chorus
I'm Going Through (Buffum)--Burton Sisters (I ripped this track to CD-R years back; no LP info on line)
Hark, Ten Thousand Harps and Voices (Kelly-Mason)--London Philharmonic Choir, 1981
Banks of Jordan--The Cooke Duet, 1969
Lonesome Valley--Phipps Family (From the SPC label Guest Star)
Stepped in the Water--Traveler's Quartet, 1967 (With two e's this time)
To God Be the Glory (Crosby-Doane)--Old Fashioned Revival Hour Choir, Dir. Dr. H. Leland Green, 1964
Brethren, We Have Met to Worship--Myrtle Baptist Church Choir
My Sins Are Gone (Vandall)--Old Fashioned Revival Hour Quartet, Rudy Atwood, Acc. (From 78 on groups' own label)
Let the Sunshine In (Blenkhorn-Gabriel)--Old Fashioned Revival Hour Quartet (From LP on Christian Faith label)
The Royal Telephone (Frederick M. Lehman)--The Blue Ridge Quartet, 1972
Wonderful Grace of Jesus (Lillenas)--The Musical Biolans (Bible Institute of Los Angeles), Dir. Ralph Carmichael (From LP on Christian Faith label)
My Sins Are Gone (Vandall)--The Haven of Rest Quartet, 1960
Tell Someone About Jesus (Snead-Gabriel)--Blackwood Brothers Quartet, 1959
Just When I Need Him Most (Poole-Gabriel)--George P. Zinn, Lyric Tenor
Saved to the Uttermost (Kirkpatrick)--Same
He Lifted Me (Gabriel)--The Rice Family Singers
Wonderful Grace of Jesus (Lillenas)--Church of the Nazarene, Dr. Ray H. Moore, 1959
Come to the Cross (Ron Hamilton)--Unknown choir (Arr. Frank Garlock)
Over in the Gloryland (J.W. Acuff)--Jack Bishop (From LP on Gloryland label, Columbus OH)
If your Heart Keeps Right (Lizzie De Armond--B.D. Ackley)--Homer Rodeheaver w. Mark Andrews, pipe organ (1927, Victor 78)
How Great Thou Art (Stuart K. Hine)--George Beverly Shea w. the Billy Graham Crusade Choir, 1962
A Rainbow on the Cloud (Hewitt-Gabriel)--Homer Rodeheaver, Orch. Acc., (1923, Vocalion 78)
Jesus Savior, Pilot Me (Gould-Hopper)--Hamilton Quartet, 1950 (Decca)
Love Lifted Me (Rowe-Smith)--Gospel Harmony Boys, 1967


Lee