How sweet it was the sights and sounds of gospel's golden age

1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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Sights and sounds of gospel's golden age [DVD]

Compact disc contains 9 previously unreleased tracks
Program and biographical notes by Anthony Heilbut (31 p. : ports.) inserted in container
Various performers
Filmed in the early 1960s; compact disc recorded 1941-1984
DVD; all regions, NTSC; full-screen presentation

DVD. The grace of God (the Consolers) ; Sanctified Lord (the Meditation Singers) ; Too close to heaven (Clarence Fountain and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama) ; No tears in heaven (the Raymond Rasberry Singers) ; From out of nowhere (Delois Barrett Campbell and the Barrett Sisters) ; In the garden (Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Delois Barrett Campbell, and Professor Alfred Miller) ; Commercial ; Up above my head I hear music in the air (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) ; God's amazing grace (J. Robert Bradley) ; Somewhere to lay my head (the Sensational Nightingales) ; I want Jesus to walk with me (Madame Emily Bram) ; Jesus keep me near the cross (Sister Jessie Mae Renfro) ; If you see my Savior ; Maybe it's you (Ira Tucker and the Dixie Hummingbirds) ; If this ain't the Holy Ghost (Marion Williams) ; Must Jesus bear the cross alone (Brother Joe May) ; We'll understand it better by and by (the Famous Davis Sisters) ; My eternity (Bessie Griffin) ; O Lord it is I (Robert Anderson) ; You must be born again ; He's right on time (Dorothy Love Coates and the Gospel Harmonettes) ; Let the church roll on (Inez Andrews and the Andrewettes) ; He's been a shelter for me ; I'm a soldier (the Soul Stirrers) ; I've been dipped in the water (watcha gonna do) (Professor Alex Bradford) ; Deep down in my heart (James Cleveland) ; It is well with my soul (Marion Williams)
CD. Stand by me (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) ; I am bound for Canaan Land (Silas Steele and the Famous Blue Jay Singers) ; How sweet it is (Professor J. Earle Hines and the St. Paul Baptist Church Choir) ; No room at the inn (Sam McCrary and the Fairfield Four) ; Somebody touched me (Edna Gallmon Cooke and the Radio Four) ; My imagination of heaven (Morgan Babb and the Radio Four) ; He's a high class physician (Marion Williams) ; I thank you Lord (R.H. Harris and the Soul Stirrers) ; I'm waiting for Jesus (the Georgia Peach and Lois Russell) ; We shall walk together through the valley (Madame Ernestine B. Washington) ; Going on with the spirit ; Didn't it rain (Mahalia Jackson) ; Will my Jesus be waiting (Archie Brownlee and the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi) ; The pilgrim's song (Clara Ward) ; Stand by me (Imogene Green and the Davis Sisters) ; I'm not uneasy (Ira Tucker and the Dixie Hummingbirds) ; These are they (Mahalia Jackson) ; What could I do ; Search me Lord (Brother Joe May) ; Satisfied (Eugene Smith and the Roberta Martin Singers) ; The angels keep watching over me (Albertina Walker and the Caravans) ; When the gates swing open (Inez Andrews) ; John saw (Reverend Robert Ballinger and the Gospel Chimes) ; Dot's testimony, part two (Dorothy Love Coates) ; Coming home (Dorothy Love and the Original Gospel Harmonettes; Claude Jeter and the Swan Silvertones) ; The prodigal son (Ruth Davis and the Famous Davis Sisters) ; Jesus met the woman at the well (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) ; Something within me (Marion Williams)

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Anderson, Robert, 1918-1995
Andrewettes (Musical group)
Andrews, Inez
Babb, Morgan
Ballinger, Robert
Barrett Sisters
Blind Boys of Alabama
Bradford, Alex
Bradley, J. Robert (John Robert), 1920-2007
Bram, Emily, 1916-2007
Brownlee, Archie
Campbell, Delois Barrett, 1926-2011
Caravans (Musical group)
Cleveland, James
Coates, Dorothy Love
Consolers (Musical group)
Cooke, Edna Gallmon, 1918-1967
Davis Sisters (Gospel music group)
Dixie Hummingbirds
Fairfield Four
Famous Blue Jay Singers
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
Fountain, Clarence
Georgia Peach (Singer)
Gospel Chimes
Gospel Harmonettes (Birmingham, Ala.)
Green, Imogene, 1931-1984
Griffin, Bessie, 1923-1989
Harris, R. H
Heilbut, Anthony
Hines, J. Earle
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972
Jeter, Claude, 1914-2009
May, Brother Joe, 1912-1972
McCrary, Sam, 1913-1991
Meditation Singers
Miller, Professor Alfred, 1927-
Radio Four (Gospel group)
Raymond Rasberry Singers
Renfro, Jessie Mae, 1921-1996
Roberta Martin Singers
Russell, Lois, 1918-
Sensational Nightingales (Musical group)
Shanachie Entertainment Corp
Smith, Eugene, 1921-2009
Soul Stirrers (Musical group)
St. Paul Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.). Choir
Steele, Silas, 1911-1967
Swan Silvertones
Tharpe, Rosetta, 1915-1973
Tucker, Ira
Walker, Albertina
Ward, Clara, 1924-1973
Williams, Marion, 1927-1994