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Larnelle Harris - Strength Of The Lord
This song, Larnelle Harris - Strength Of The Lord helped me find my way back to God in 1989.
I had come to the end of my self,my world was closing in on all sides and I knew I needed God.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley". Recordings of these sold millions of copies in both gospel and secular markets in the 20th century.
Born into a preacher’s family in rural Georgia, Thomas Dorsey began playing the family organ at age six. At eight he started writing his own music, and by 13, was playing piano in Atlanta, accompanying some of the famous jazz artists of the day. In 1916, Dorsey moved to Chicago to study at the Chicago School of Composition and Arranging. Although his beginnings were in the jazz and blues tradition, he was also influenced by music he heard through his religious affiliations. His first attempts to combine the two styles, which he called the “gospel song,” were met with resistance, however, because of their heavy blues influence. “Several times I have been thrown out of some of the best churches,” Dorsey remembered in a 1980 interview. “But they just didn’t understand.”
Dorsey was the son of Thomas Madison Dorsey, who preached at Mt. Prospect Baptist Church, and Etta Dorsey, a church organist who taught young Thomas the keyboard. Growing up in Villa Rica in the early 1900s, the youth was introduced by relatives to shaped note singing and to a musical style that would later be known as the Blues.
After a spiritual awakening, Dorsey began concentrating on writing and arranging religious music. Aside from the lyrics, he saw no real distinction between blues and church music, and viewed songs as a supplement to spoken word preaching. Dorsey served as the music director at Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist Church for 50 years, introducing musical improvisation and encouraging personal elements of participation such as clapping, stomping, and shouting in churches when these were widely condemned as unrefined and common. In 1932, he co-founded the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, an organization dedicated to training musicians and singers from all over the U.S. that remains active. The first generation of gospel singers in the 20th century worked or trained with Dorsey: Sallie Martin, Mahalia Jackson, Roberta Martin, and James Cleveland, among others..jpg)
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Aretha Franklin - Precious Lord
Precious Lord
"Take My Hand, Precious Lord" (2015) Ledisi - Selma Movie Soundtrack
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Kenneth Whalum III - Precious Lord Take My Hand
Precious Lord by Thomas Dorsey, arranged by Arnold Sevier
Precious Lord | Aeolians of Oakwood University
Luther Barnes & The Sunset Jubilaires - Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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Callie Day Sings
O Lord, Please Hear My Prayer"
O Lord, please hear my prayer;
In the morning when I rise.
It's your servant bound for glory.
O dear Lord, please hear my prayer.
O Lord, please hear my prayer. Keep me safe within your arms.
It's your servant bound for glory.
O dear Lord, please hear my prayer.
When my work on earth is done, And you come to take me home.
Just to know I'm bound for glory; And to hear You say, "Well done!"
Done with sin and sorrow.
Have mercy. Mercy.
Callie Day
Calesta "Callie" Day is from Atlanta, Georgia. Although she's a classically trained opera singer who sings other genres, Callie is an educator, artist, vocalist, and voice instructor. She is a multi-talented and gifted woman of God with a range of vocal abilities.
Her anointed style, production, and spiritual perception have made her one of the most dynamic and compelling talents. Callie also wears many hats: a soloist/performer with the American Spiritual Ensemble. Her vocal rendition of Moses Hogan's "Hear My Prayer" has taken the internet by storm and has made Callie an internet phenomenon.
Mrs. Day's music is currently available on all digital networks and has placed her #9 and #24 on Billboard Magazine's Gospel and Classical music charts.
"For Every Mountain" - Callie Day
Mrs. Day holds an Associate of Arts in Voice Performance from Sinclair Community College, a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Bowling Green State University,
Master of Arts degree in Education with a Music Concentration from the University of Dayton. A current candidate for the Master of Fine Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Voice Performance at the University of Kentucky under the supervision of Dr. Everett McCorvey. Callie has performed with Opera companies throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America.
Callie made her professional operatic debut with the Opera National de Paris in "PLAY," Choreographed by Alexander Ekman. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mrs. Day will be returning in the 2021 season. Since the pandemic outbreak of Covid-19, Callie recently released a new music video project titled "In Trouble."
Callie Day Sings "Great Is Thy Faithfulness"
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