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I Think I Found The (Gospel)Funk (HOB 1356)
about 1 year ago
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I hoped and prayed this one would not posted already. Oh my gosh, this is one bump-knockious gospel tune. Recorded by the venerable Swan Silvertones sometime around 1969, but not venerable sounding in the slightest. All praises due to the shuffle and all curses on me for not knowing about this song 'til now. Enjoy.

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Reverend Claude Jeter 1914-2009
9 months ago

News has only just reached me that, eighty years after he formed his first gospel harmony group, lead singer of the Swan Silvertones Reverend Claude Jeter died last month at the age of 94.Blessed with a truly ethereal falsetto that contrasted with the rougher and deeper tones of Solomon Womack and Robert Crenshaw, he might easily have followed Sam Cooke into secular stardom, were it not that he...

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As today is Good Friday
about 1 year ago

it really has to be gospel, and in particular the Swan Silvertones, with the Reverend Claude Jeter wringing every drop of emotion out of his description of the crucifixion on *this*

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More gospel
about 1 year ago

This time from the Swan Silvertones, but again a song that was changed a bit, secularised, and became famous

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