"Get Your Soul Right" The Gospel Quartets & The Roots Of Soul Music 1949-1962

"A comprehensive three disc collection of testifiers'" (Record Collector)
"Will move you in ways more traditional hymns never could" (Vintage Rock)During the classic years of soul in the 1960s and early 1970s, with the rise of Motown, Stax, Chess and Atlantic as the key labels in the genre (and the emergence of Detroit, Memphis, Chicago and New York respectively as the key locations), many acts who came to international popularity gave credit to the influence of gospel music in the development of their musical careers. Many of these artists had sung with church choirs or gospel groups, or they had heard and seen the famous quartets singing in their hometown or on the road. Sometimes gospel singers moved into secular music (Sam Cooke, James Phelps, Lou Rawls and Johnnie Taylor), sometimes a group moved wholesale from gospel to secular (the Staple Singers), and it was rare for a soul singer not to give public acknowledgement of the gospel influence on his or her style.
Just as soul music had it’s ‘golden age’ in the 1960s/1970s, so gospel had a similar period a decade earlier, with countless groups and soloists traversing the USA touring on what were called ‘The Programs’, with three or four groups doing vocal battle with each other in churches and theatres in the origin of ‘house-rocking’ music. They were known as ‘quartets’ regardless of the actual number of personnel involved, be it the male giants (Dixie Hummingbirds, Blind Boys of Alabama, Gospelaires, Nightingales) or their female counterparts (Ward Singers, Davis Sisters), and are now legendary in the annals of music history.
Compiled and annotated by soul and gospel – and Solar Radio MD and DJ – Clive Richardson, Get Your Soul Right presents a selection of the best-known performers from the golden age of gospel on recordings selected to display their influence on the soul giants of the following decades, both in vocal delivery and musical styles and tempos, be it the hand-clapping revivalists or the tortuous simmering soulful burners – here you have the true roots of soul.

trax disc 1:
The Swan Silvertones
1. Get Your Soul Right 2. Singing In My Soul 3. What About You 4. Move Somewhere 5. He's Alright With Me 6. Brighter Day Ahead
The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi
7. Where There’s A Will 8. I’m A Soldier 9. I’ve Been Weeping A Mighty Long Time 10. One Talk With Jesus 11. Jesus Is A Rock In A Weary Land 12. There’s No Need To Cry 13. Sit Down And Rest Awhile 14. Hills Of Calvary 15. Working On The Building 16. Revival Time 17. Mother’s On The Train 18. Satisfied With Jesus
The Soul Stirrers
19. Just Another Day 20. Let Me Go Home 21. Jesus Gave Me Water 22. Until Then 23. When The Gates Swing Open 24. How Long?
The Dixie Hummingbirds
25. Get Right Church 26. Devil Can't Harm A Praying Man 27. Wading Through Blood And Water 28. What Are They Doing In Heaven 29. Eternal Life 30. It Must Have Been the Lord (That Touched Me)
trax disc 2:
The Sensational Nightingales
1. Does Jesus Care 2. Another Year 3. Burying Ground 4. I Gave My Heart 5. A Closer Walk With Thee 6. Standing At The Judgement
The Gospelaires
7. Sit Down Children 8. It's A Pity 9. I'll Be So Glad 10. Joy Joy Joy 11. God Said He Would 12. One More Chance
The Spirit Of Memphis Quartet
13. Every Time I Feel The Spirit 14. Jesus Jesus 15. Toll The Bell Easy 16. The Atomic Telephone 17. Since Jesus Came Into My Heart 18. He’ll Never Let Me Fall
The Highway Q.C.'s
19. Somewhere To Lay My Head 20. I’ll Trust His Word 21. I Dreamed Heaven Was Like This 22. Pray 23. Child Of God 24. I’ll Be Satisfied
The Clefs Of Calvary
25. Baptized 26. Father Forgive Them 27. God's Love 28. Going Down To The River 29. Oh Lord Remember Me 30. Wait A Little Longer
trax disc 3:
The Pilgrim Travelers
1. Jesus Hits Like An Atom Bomb 2. Jesus I’m Thankful 3. Straight Street 4. Satisfied With Jesus 5. Talk About Jesus 6. Come Home
The Davis Sisters
7. Twelve Gates To The City 8. Sinner Man Where You Gonna Run 9. I Want To Be More Like Jesus 10. When I Get Inside 11. Rain In Jerusalem 12. Jonah
The Staple Singers
13. Don’t Drive Me Away 14. Downward Road 15. Stand By Me 16. Ain’t That Good News 17. Don’t Knock 18. This May Be The Last Time
The Ward Singers
19. Hold Back The Tears 20. Anywhere In Glory 21. Farther On Up The Road 22. We Shall Be Changed 23. The Old Landmark 24. Jesus
Mahalia Jackson
25. Walking To Jerusalem 26. Didn't It Rain 27. Jesus Is With Me 28. How I Got Over 29. Said He Would (He Calmed The Ocean) 30. Walk With Me
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