MUSICIANS ON THIS PAGE: SWAN SILVERTONES * MARY MCCASLIN & JIM RINGER * ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES (W/ DOROTHY LOVE COATES) * FAIRFIELD FOUR (featuring Isaac Freeman) * STEVIE WONDER * BELLS OF JOY * PERSUASIONS * SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK * DEEPER DIMENSION * TRUMPETEERS * VAN MORRISON * TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE CHOIR (aka TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY CHOIR)
Featuring the amazing falsetto singing of Rev. Claude Jeter:
Folk duo perform old Gospel tune:
Two songs: Canaan’s Land (Where the Soul of Man Never Dies) and Rank Strangers:
The Original Gospel Harmonettes featuring Dorothy Love Coates:
Stevie Wonder sings his original version of “Heaven Help Us All”:
The Bells Of Joy were an underappreciated male gospel group in the early 1950’s. A.C. Littlefield was the lead vocalist. This song is from 1953:
Venerable R&B accapella group sings a couple of Gospel songs:
Female accappela group sings secular and Gospel:
Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey in the Rock) sings “We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder”:
Sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock:
Sung by the Trumpeteers:
BE THOU MY VISION (trad.)
sung by Van Morrison:
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
Be all else but naught to me, save that thou art;
Thou my best thought in the day and the night,
Both waking and sleeping, thy presence my light.
Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,
Be thou ever with me, and I with thee Lord;
Be thou my great Father, and I thy true son;
Be thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.
Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight;
Be thou my whole armour, be thou my true might;
Be thou my soul's shelter, be thou my strong tower:
O raise thou me heavenward, great Power of my power.
Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise:
Be thou mine inheritance now and always;
Be thou and thou only the first in my heart;
O Sovereign of Heaven, my treasure thou art.
High King of Heaven, thou Heaven's bright sun,
O grant me its joys after victory is won!;
Great heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.
FULL FORCE GALE
Like a full force gale
I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord
And no matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord
In the gentle evening breeze
By the whispering shady trees
I will find my sanctuary in the Lord
I was headed for a fall
The I looked up and saw the writing on the wall
Like a full force gale
I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord
I was headed for a fall
The I looked up and saw the writing on the wall
In the gentle evening breeze
By the whispering shady trees
I will find my sanctuary in the Lord
And no matter where I roam
I will find my way back home
I will always return to the Lord
Like a full force gale
I was lifted up again
I was lifted up again by the Lord
words and music by Van Morrison
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” performed at the James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg, VA by the Tuskegee University Golden Voices Concert Choir on its 2017 Spring Tour:
Tuskegee University Golden Voices Concert Choir 2017 Spring Tour performs “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord” (Arr: Moses Hogan) on March 14, 2017 at Good Shepherd Baptist Church, Augusta, Ga. Directed by Mrs. Brenda Shuford:
Tuskegee University Golden Voices sings at the 2014 William L. Dawson Concert:
Tuskegee Institute Choir of 1955 performs “Listen to the Lambs” under the baton of William L Dawson:
Playlist of entire album (Spirituals) by above choir:
Jeff Grinnell's Poetry Platform 