Living The Gospel Gospel Greats (2002)

Product Summary Label: Time Life Music UPC: 00610583606010 Release Date: 4/2/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60551539 Item#: M7JJS2 Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers ~ Various Artists 2. Mighty High - Mighty Clouds Of Joy ~ Various Artists 3. How I Got Over - Aretha Franklin ~ Various Artists 4. No Charge - Shirley Caesar ~ Various Artists 5. Lord, Don't Move The Mountain - Inez Andrews ~ Various Artists 6. Jesus, You've Been Good To Me - The Gospel Keynotes ~ Various Artists 7. My Soul Has Been Anchored - Douglas Miller ~ Various Artists 8. Oh, Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers ~ Various Artists 9. Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Al Green ~ Various Artists 10. Jesus Is Love - The Commodores ~ Various Artists 11. Rough Side Of The Mountain - Rev. F.C. Barnes/Rev. Janice Brown ~ Various Artists 12. Soon And Very Soon - Andrae Crouch ~ Various Artists 13. Tomorrow - The Winans ~ Various Artists 14. I Give You Praise - The Richard Smallwood Singers ~ Various Artists 15. I'm Available To You - Rev. Milton Brunson & The Thompson Community Singers ~ Various Artists 16. Goin' Up Yonder - W. Hawkins & The Love Choir ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Includes liner notes by Anthony Heilbut. Adapter: Edwin Hawkins. Liner Note Author: Anthony Heilbut. Unknown Contributor Roles: Mark Cass Stevens; Linda Rolla. This Time/Life spiritual collection is essentially focused on post-Soul Stirrers gospel, after Sam Cooke helped that group revolutionize the style by mating it with pop production in the Big Bang of the gospel music universe. Accordingly, most of the tracks here are heavily oriented towards '60s/'70s soul sounds. Unless you just can't live without your Swan Silvertones fix, though, it's pretty hard to find anything to gripe about here. Of course the "Stairway to Heaven" of gospel, the Edwin Hawkins Singers' "Oh Happy Day" is here, but most of the selections, like the Staple Singers' funky "I'll Take You There" and Al Green's very '80s-sounding "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" could fit just as comfortably on any secular R&B compilation. Even pop artists you don't usually think of as gospel mavens get their licks in, as with the Commodores' ballad "Jesus is Love."   Technical Info Release Date : 04/02/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 60601 Label : Time/Life Music Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00610583606010    Related Videos Christmas In The Heart : ... A Cherry Cherry Christmas... In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray