Soul, Blues, Sixties Music Database
Money Honey Queen Esther Marrow has performed with all the greats, including BB King, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Money Honey is a distinctly funky sounding song – she has the right voice for the track. She has gone back to her gospel roots, forming the Harlem Gospel choir. Queen Esther Marrow – Wikipedia
The Right Direction A very upbeat single from Clara Ward who did led The Clara ward Singers Gospel Group. It reaches 325 on Kev Roberts Top 500. The Clara Ward Singers 1963 TV performance: PBS AMERICA
I Believe Your God Is Dead (Try Mine) The Swan Silvertones The Swan Silvertones – Wikipedia
IN THE SPIRIT (2006) Another good track is Can I Get a Witness. (1996). She was the lead singer in Sounds of Blackness. From Amazon: Ann Nesby is the Grammy-winning original lead singer for the successful Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis-produced contemporary gospel group Sounds Of Blackness. Ann went solo with her own brand of inspirational R&B in … Read more
Hang On In There Yes To The Lord The Stovall Sisters were born into a family of twenty two children who used to tour the midwest of the US as a gospel group. Three sisters, Nettie, Lillian and Rejoyce, formed a singing trio who eventually released an album, The Stovall Sisters. They became the backing … Read more
R.H. Harris was the original lead singer with The Soul Stirrers and was later replaced by Sam Cooke. They were one of the finest gospel groups ever to cross over into mainstream music, with the help of Sam Cooke. The group originally started way back in 1926 and reputedly got their name from the fact that … Read more
I’ve Got So Much To Shout About The Dixie Hummingbirds from Greenville, South Carolina USA were a genuine Gospel group who were the inspiration for many artists; Jackie Wilson, Bobby Bland The Temptations, Clyde McPhatter and many others. Unbelievably, the group first started performing in the 1930s and have celebrated their 7th decade of entertaining … Read more
The Old Ship Of Zion The Rev C L Franklin headed a fabulous soul family. He had three fantastic Soul diva daughters and he himself had a voice that came from deep down in the throat, it had a hypnotic repetitive chanting quality that really reached his audiences in gospel churches. His three great soul … Read more
RnB and then Soul grew out of two major twin musical channels Blues and Gospel and probably a little Jazz influences for good measure. Multiple soul singers, far too numerous to record here, came up through gospel and church singing. Notably: Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. Some of the most famous Gospel singers and groups … Read more
My Baby’s So Good – Mercury WHAT ABOUT YOU – CBS 1970 LET ME DOWN SLOWLY/SUMMER TIME (MERCURY 72318) WHAT’S COME OVER YOU/MY BABY’S SO GOOD (MERCURY 72396) IS YOUR LOVE GOING OR GROWING/ROLL OVER CASANOVA (MERCURY 72481) YOU’RE SO QUALIFIED/HE GETS EVERYTHING HE WANTS (MERCURY 72547) GOT YOU ON MY MIND/AS LONG AS SHE … Read more