The Caravans’ first big hit, “Mary Don’t You Weep,” helped make them the most popular gospel group in the United States, with hits like “I Won’t Be Back,” “Show Me Some Sign,” “Sweeping Through the City,” “No Coward Soldier,” and Ms. Walker’s great signature song, “Lord Keep Me Day by Day.” They became known not only for hit songs but also for incubating future stars like Delores Washington, Cassietta George and Dorothy Norwood.

Albertina Walker October Grammy-winning singer known as the “Queen of Gospel” Albertina Walker passed away. She was 81 years old. Funeral service for 'Queen of Gospel' Dr. Albertina Walker Homegoing Musical Tribute. Please Be Patient With Me: Albertina Walker with James Cleaveland: MP3 Downloads.

Beginning in the 1970s Ms. Walker performed as a soloist with a variety of church choirs as her backup. Her first solo venture, “Put a Little Love in Your Heart,” released in 1975, was followed by more than 50 albums, including “I Can Go to God in Prayer” and “Joy Will Come.” Photo.

Albertina Walker at the White House in 2002. Credit Doug Mills/Associated Press “Songs of the Church: Live in Memphis” won a in 1995 for the Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, and in 2001 she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. President GeorgeW. Bush honored Ms.

Walker for her contribution to gospel music in a White House ceremony in 2002. Albertina Walker, known as Tina, was born on Aug. 29, 1929, on the South Side of Chicago, where she lived her entire life. She was the youngest of nine children. At the age of four she was singing with the youth choir of the West Point Baptist Church, under the direction of Pete Williams, and before long was performing with the Williams Singers. By 17, she was singing with Anderson.

Anderson, although blessed with a top-quality voice himself — he played king to Mahalia Jackson’s queen — made a practice of sharing the spotlight with his best singers, Ms. Walker chief among them. She followed his example as leader of the Caravans, stepping aside and letting her top performers shine. In the early years, singers came and went. All the original members except Ms.

Walker left the Caravans within a few years after it was founded. The early recordings, on the States label, featured tight harmonies and a sweet sound.

Bil Carpenter, in “Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia,” notes that with the arrival of Bessie Griffin in 1953, the sound became much more dynamic — rhythmically precise with a sharp attack and earthy harmonies. Although popular, the group struggled in the years before “Mary Don’t You Weep,” touring churches all over the United States but earning relatively little money.

“We would put five to six dollars in the gas tank, drive all the way to New York or Mississippi,” Ms. Walker told magazine in 2009. “We would pack into one car, nobody had a problem with it either. We would probably make $150 singing, but we would share our rewards and the money would pay a lot of bills back then.” Ms. Walker can be heard in her prime on the album “The Best of the Caravans” (Savoy), and on the CD and DVD compilation “How Sweet It Was: The Sights and Sounds of Gospel’s Golden Age” (Shanachie), which includes the previously unreleased Caravans song “The Angels Keep Watching Over Me.” With the arrival of a new crop of young singers — Ms. Washington, Ms.

Norwood and Ms. Caesar — that Ms. Walker allowed free rein, the Caravans embarked on a hot streak that continued until 1966, when Ms. Caesar and Ms. Anderson left the group. Walker kept the Caravans going for a time, bringing in the future disco star Loleatta Holloway, but in the 1970s struck out on her own. Correction: October 13, 2010 An obituary on Saturday about the gospel singer Albertina Walker misstated a word in the title of a book about gospel music by Anthony Heilbut.

It is “The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times” (not “Hard Times”). The obituary also misstated the name of a song that was a hit for Ms. Walker and her group, the Caravans. It is “I Won’t Be Back (Sweeping Through the City).” They did not have separate songs called “I Won’t Be Back” and “Sweeping Through the City.” The obituary also referred incorrectly at one point to the singer Inez Andrews as Ms.

• • • • • • Mahalia Jackson (; October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American singer. Possessing a powerful voice, she was referred to as 'The Queen of Gospel'.

She became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world and was heralded internationally as a singer and activist. She was described by entertainer as 'the single most powerful black woman in the United States'. She recorded about 30 albums (mostly for ) during her career, and her records included a dozen 'golds'—million-sellers. 'I sing God's music because it makes me feel free', Jackson once said about her choice of gospel, adding, 'It gives me hope. With the, when you finish, you still have the blues.'

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] She was born on October 26, 1911, as Mahala Jackson and nicknamed 'Halie'. Jackson grew up in the section of the of uptown. The three-room dwelling on Pitt Street housed thirteen people and a dog. This included Little Mahala (named after her aunt, Mahala Clark-Paul whom the family called Aunt Duke); her brother Roosevelt Hunter, whom they called Peter; and her mother Charity Clark, who worked as both a maid and a laundress. Several aunts and cousins lived in the house as well.

Aunt Mahala was given the nickname 'Duke' after proving herself the undisputed 'boss' of the family. The extended family (the Clarks) consisted of her mother's siblings: Isabell, Mahala, Boston, Porterfield, Hannah, Alice, Rhoda, Bessie, their children, grandchildren, and patriarch Rev. Paul Clark, a former slave.

Jackson's father, John A. Jackson Sr., was a (dockworker) and a barber who later became a Baptist minister. He fathered five other children besides Mahalia: Wilmon (older) and then Yvonne, Edna, Pearl and Johnny Jr.

(by his marriage shortly after Halie's birth). Her father's sister, Jeanette Jackson-Burnett, and her husband, Josie, were vaudeville entertainers. Their son, her cousin Edward, shared stories and records of, and, whose voices and blues singing impressed her so much that she would imitate their ways of bending and coloring notes. (Her voice and singing style would be compared to Bessie Smith's all her life). At birth, Jackson suffered from, or 'bowed legs'. The doctors wanted to perform surgery by breaking her legs, but one of the resident aunts opposed it. Jackson's mother would rub her legs down with greasy dishwater.

The condition never stopped young Jackson from performing her dance steps for the white woman for whom her mother and Aunt Bell cleaned house. Jackson was four (or five) years old when her mother Charity died (at the age of 25), leaving her family to decide who would raise Halie and her brother. Aunt Duke assumed this responsibility, and the children were forced to work from sun-up to sun-down.

Aunt Duke would always inspect the house using the 'white glove' method. If the house was not cleaned properly, Jackson was beaten. If one of the other relatives could not do their chores or clean at their job, Jackson or one of her cousins was expected to perform that particular task. School was hardly an option. Jackson loved to sing and church is where she loved to sing the most. Her Aunt Bell told her that one day she would sing in front of royalty, a prediction that would eventually come true.

Jackson began her singing career at the local Mount Moriah Baptist Church. At 12 years old, she was baptized in the by Mt. Moriah's pastor, the Rev. Lawrence, then went back to the church to 'receive the '.

Mahalia Jackson, photographed by in 1962 1920s–1940s [ ] In 1927, at the age of 16, Jackson moved to, in the midst of the. After her first Sunday school service, where she had given an impromptu performance of her favorite song, 'Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet, Gabriel', she was invited to join the Greater Salem Baptist Church Choir. She began touring the city's churches and surrounding areas with the Johnson Gospel Singers, one of the earliest professional gospel groups. In 1929, Jackson met the composer, known as the Father of Gospel Music.

He gave her musical advice, and in the mid-1930s they began a 14-year association of touring, with Jackson singing Dorsey's songs in church programs and at conventions. His ' became her signature song. In 1936, Jackson married Isaac Lanes Grey Hockenhull ('Ike'), a graduate of and who was 10 years her senior. She refused to sing secular music, a pledge she would keep throughout her professional life. She was frequently offered money to do so and she divorced Isaac in 1941 because of his unrelenting pressure on her to sing secular music and his addiction to gambling on racehorses. In 1931, Jackson recorded 'You Better Run, Run, Run'.

Not much is known about this recording and no publicly known copies exist. Biographer Laurraine Goreau cites that it was also around this time she added the 'i' to her name, changing it from Mahala to Mahalia, pronounced. At the age of 25, her second set of records was recorded on May 21, 1937, under the, accompanied by Estelle Allen (piano), in order: 'God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares', 'My Lord', 'Keep Me Everyday' and 'God Shall Wipe All Tears Away'. Financially, these were not successful, and Decca let her go. In 1947, Jackson signed up with the label, and in 1948, recorded the song ', a recording so popular stores could not stock enough copies to meet demand, selling an astonishing eight million copies. Download Legacy Of Kain Defiance Pc Full Rip.

(The song was later honored with the in 1998.) The success of this record rocketed her to fame in the U.S., and soon after, in Europe. During this time she toured as a concert artist, appearing more frequently in concert halls and less often in churches. As a consequence of this change in her venues, her arrangements expanded from piano and organ to orchestral accompaniments. Other recordings received wide praise, including 'Let the Power of the Holy Ghost Fall on Me' (1949), which won the 's Grand Prix du Disque; and ', which became one of the best-selling singles in the history of. When Jackson sang 'Silent Night' on 's national radio, more than 20,000 requests for copies poured in.

Other recordings on the Apollo label included 'He Knows My Heart' (1946), ' (1947), 'Tired' (1947), 'I Can Put My Trust in Jesus' (1949), 'Walk with Me' (1949), 'Let the Power of the Holy Ghost Fall on Me' (1949), ' (1950), ' (1950), ' (1951), ' (1951), ' (1953), 'Didn't It Rain' (1953), 'Hands of God' (1953) and 'Nobody Knows' (1954). 1950s–1970s [ ].

• ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' (Apollo 194, 1947) • ' (Apollo 164, 1947) • ' (performed at 's funeral) • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • ' • 'Wait Till My Change Comes' (Apollo 110, 1946) • 'He Knows My Heart' (Apollo 145, 1946) • 'Come on Children, Let's Sing' • ' In popular culture [ ] • Jackson appears in the 1960 film – an artistic documentary filmed at the 1958. She sings three gospel numbers at the end of the film, including '. • In the 1958 movie, Jackson played the character Bessie May and sang in the church choir. • In the movie, the character played by tries to distract himself from his son Gator's () addiction by listening to her albums by the hour. • In the 1959 film, Jackson portrays the choir soloist, singing 'Trouble of the World' at Annie's funeral. She has no speaking lines, but her singing performance highlights the climactic scene. • In the 1964 film, Jackson plays herself, singing at a in a two-minute clip.

• In the television promotional special This Way to Sesame Street, mentions Jackson as one of the celebrities who occasionally visit. •, with whom Jackson occasionally recorded, most notably on the studio version of, paid tribute to her on his album with the song 'Portrait of Mahalia Jackson'. • In the 1970 documentary movie, jokes with one of his back-up singing groups that, 'I'm gonna bring in tomorrow night, you know. And Mahalia Jackson singing lead with them.' • Alan Parker's 1988 film starts with Jackson's famous recording of 'Take My Hand, Precious Lord' over the opening credits, over a poignant scene of a pair of segregated water fountains. • In the 2014 film, she is portrayed by singer.

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Further reading [ ] • Mahalia Jackson, Movin On Up, Hawthorn Books, 1966. •, How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel, Elliott and Clark, 1995.. • Burford, Mark, 'Mahalia Jackson Meets the Wise Men: Defining Jazz at the Music Inn', Musical Quarterly, 97 (Fall 2014), pp. 429–86.

• Cornell, Jean Gay, Mahalia Jackson: Queen of Gospel Song, Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. • Darden, Bob, People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music, New York: Continuum, 2004.. • Goreau, Laurraine, Just Mahalia, Baby, Waco, TX: World Books, 1975.

•, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, Limelight Editions, 1997.. • Jabir, Johari, 'On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing', American Quarterly, 61 (September 2009), pp. 649–70. •, Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord!: The Life of Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Singers, T.Y. Crowell, 1974. •, Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music, Viking Press, 1974. • Schwerin, Jules, Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel, Oxford University Press, 1992.. • Viale, Gene D.

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