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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - 'Warming by the Devil’s Fire' by Rev. Johnny Blakey

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By Robert Darden
| KWBU-FM Verified
In the late 1920s through the late 1930s, African American preaching sermons comprised the best-selling vinyl in America. The Rev. F.W. McGee is reported to have sold a half a million recordings during the Great Depression. One of McGee’s contemporaries was the Rev. Johnny Blakey, known as the “Son of Thunder.” Blakey recorded 18 tracks in 1927 and 1928 in Chicago for the Paramount and Okeh labels.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - 'Devil Gonna Get You' by The Gospeleers

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By Robert Darden
| KWBU-FM Verified
As we approach Halloween, I thought it would fun to hear a few spooky gospel songs. From 1941, the Gospeleers were one of a number of old time a capella groups, including the Four Great Wonders, the Galilee Singers, the Goodwill Males Singers and others recording for the Decca label. The Gospeleers were a rare mixed quartet of male and female singers and “Devil Gonna Get You” is a great example of an old spiritual interpreted through that close-harmony jubilee sound.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - 'Somebody Touched Me' by Washington Temple Camp Meeting Choir

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By Robert Darden
| KWBU-FM Verified
In the early 1900s, the new Church of God in Christ denomination sent a host of extraordinarily talented musical missionaries out to evangelize the country. One of the most memorable was Sister Ernestine Washington. Born in poverty in rural Arkansas in 1914, Sister Ernestine married Bishop F.D. Washington in 1934 and his church, Washington Temple, soon became one of the biggest in Brooklyn.
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