Various - "Bless My Bones" Memphis Gospel Radio - The Fifties
Genre: Funk / Soul
Singer: Various
Title: "Bless My Bones" Memphis Gospel Radio - The Fifties
Short-info: Label: P-Vine Special ‎– PLP-9051
Type: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Country: Japan
Date of released: 1982
Category: Funk / Soul
Style: Gospel
MP3 album size .rar: 1883 mb
APE album size .rar: 1498 mb
Digital formats: MP3 FLAC AUD VOC FLAC DMF AA AHX AIFF

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Songbirds Of The South Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Bass Vocals – Elizabeth Darling, Ernestine Whitehead, Evelyn BroadnaxLead Vocals – Mary Louise ReddickLead Vocals [2nd] – Cassietta Baker
A2 Songbirds Of The South 99½ Won't Do
Bass Vocals – Elizabeth Darling, Ernestine Whitehead, Evelyn BroadnaxLead Vocals – Cassietta Baker
A3 Songbirds Of The South Where Could I Go
Bass Vocals – Ernestine Whitehead, Evelyn BroadnaxLead Vocals – Cassietta BakerPiano – Elizabeth Darling
A4 Spirit Of Memphis Quartet* Milky White Way
Baritone Vocals – Jet Bledsoe*Bass Vocals – Earl MaloneGuitar – L. T. Blair*Lead Vocals – Fred Howard Lead Vocals [high tenor] – Joe Hinton Tenor Vocals – Robert Reed
A5 Spirit Of Memphis Quartet* Happy In The Service Of The Lord
Baritone Vocals – James DarlingBass Vocals – Earl MaloneLead Vocals [1st] – Jet Bledsoe*Lead Vocals [2nd] – Silas SteeleTenor Vocals – Robert Reed
A6 Dixie Nightingales* In My Savior's Care
Baritone Vocals – Willie NealBass Vocals – Bill Davis Guitar – Nelson LesureLead Vocals – Ollie HoskinsTenor Vocals [High] – Rochester Neal
A7 Brewsteraires Book Of The Seven Seals - Part One
Baritone Vocals – D. K. RogersBass Vocals – Odell RiceGuitar – Melvin Lee Lead Vocals – James Irby, Nathaniel Peck, Sol OustonPiano – Jimmy Bessler
A8 Brewsteraires Book Of The Seven Seals - Part Two
Baritone Vocals – D. K. RogersBass Vocals – Odell RiceGuitar – Melvin Lee Lead Vocals – James Irby, Nathaniel Peck, Sol OustonPiano – Jimmy Bressler
B1 Rev. William Herbert Brewster And Brewsteraires So Glad I've Got Good Religion
Baritone Vocals – Odell RiceBass Vocals – Henry Reed Lead Vocals – Sol OustonTenor Vocals [2nd] – Nathaniel PeckVocals [preaching] – Reverend W. H. Brewster*
B2 Brewsteraires King's Highway
Baritone Vocals – Odell RiceBass Vocals – Henry Reed Lead Vocals – Sol OustonLead Vocals, Baritone Vocals – D. K. RogersTenor Vocals [2nd], Lead Vocals [Falsetto] – Nathaniel Peck
B3 Brewsteraires Wait Until My Change Comes
Baritone Vocals – D.K. RogersBass Vocals – Henry Reed Guitar – Melvin Lee Lead Vocals – Sol OustonTenor Vocals [2nd] – Nathaniel Peck
B4 Queen C. Anderson And Brewster Singers Jesus The Perfect Answer
Alto Vocals – Hessie Ford, Nancy JeromeLead Vocals – Queen C. AndersonTenor Vocals – Dorothy Ford, Nina Jai Daugherty
B5 Queen C. Anderson And Brewster Singers Bank In The Sky
Lead Vocals – Queen C. AndersonVocals – Ella Clark Williams, Nina Jai DaughertyVocals, Organ – Dorothy Ford
B6 Southern Wonders* Thank You Jesus
Baritone Vocals – Ernest MooreBass Vocals – Artis YancyGuitar – L. T. Blair*Lead Vocals – Rev. Ernest McKinney*Lead Vocals [2nd] – R. L. WeaverTenor Vocals – Henry Jack Franklin
B7 Southern Wonders* Lord Stand By Me
Baritone Vocals – Ernest MooreBass Vocals – Artis YancyGuitar – L. T. Blair*Lead Vocals – Rev. Ernest McKinney*, R. L. WeaverTenor Vocals – Henry Jack Franklin
B8 Sunset Travelers* Sit Down And Rest
Baritone Vocals – Grover BlakeBass Vocals – Junior FranklinGuitar – McKinney JonesLead Vocals – O.V. WrightTenor Vocals – Sylvester Ward, Tommy Tucker

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – Blues Interactions, Inc.
  • Distributed By – Blues Interactions, Inc.
  • Mastered At – Audio Restoration Laboratory, Country Music Foundation

Credits

  • Compiled By, Producer – Doug Seroff
  • Mastered By – Alan Stoker
  • Sleeve, Graphics – Gene Johnson

Notes

Thanks to Robert Laughton for the loan of a rare 78 original from his collection.
Thanks to Grover Blake, Rochester Neal, Mrs. Essie Wade, Julia Anderson Todd, Henry Jackson Franklin, Nathaniel Peck, for loaning old photos from their collections.
Special thanks to Mr. Peck and Mrs. Daugherty, who were very helpful in transcribing song lyrics.
Thanks to Kip Lornell for his help with the field research in Memphis. Quotes from Kip's 1980 interview with Elijah Jones, and his April, 1981 interview with Willie Neal appear in the liner notes.
Thanks to Gospel Fritz for helping this P-Vine release made possible (sic).
Without the support, trust and unlimited cooperation of Mrs. Essie Wade the unique radio station recordings presented here would have remained unissued.
There is also a (?) Bogart credited on A7 & A8 on electric bass.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped): PLP - 9051A 111 U
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped): PLP - 9051B 111
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched): CL - 144, 003 - A MASTERFONICS
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched): CL - 144, 003 - B MASTERFONICS
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