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• OLD TIME COUNTRY GOSPEL RADIO FULL

In 1960, country music singer Tennessee Ernie Ford had a hit with it for Capitol Records. This gospel standard, which was written by the influential gospel composer Thomas Andrew Dorsey, has been covered by numerous leading musicians, including Little Richard and Elvis Presley. Tennessee Ernie Ford: What A Friend We Have You could fill a whole list of the best gospel songs just with Mahalia Jackson’s music, so a special mention also goes for her 1958 version of “Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho,” sung with such feeling and gusto. Her moving version even reached the 1958 Billboard charts, a strong showing for a gospel single at the time when Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis were dominating the rankings.

OLD TIME COUNTRY GOSPEL RADIO FULL

Mahalia Jackson, a singer with one of the finest voices in this history of gospel music, did full justice to this joyous spiritual from 1927. Mahalia Jackson: He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands Cooke, who went on to be one of the best soul singers in popular music, showed he was also a natural interpreter of gospel in this period of his career. In 1950, it was one of the first songs recorded by 19-year-old Cooke, during his time as lead singer of gospel group the Soul Stirrers. Dorsey, and which was later recorded by hundreds of musicians, including Presley and Little Richard. Sam Cooke grew up listening to “Peace in the Valley,” a song written in 1937 for Mahalia Jackson by Thomas A. However, “When The Saints Go Marching In” also features in a brilliant instrumental version by the New Orleans legend Sidney Bechet. This celebrated feel-good song (with lyrics that take much of their inspiration from the Book Of Revelations) became something of a jazz-gospel standard after Louis Armstrong’s impressive 1938 version. Sidney Bechet: When The Saints Go Marching In

To wit, the 2015 Williams biopic, starring Tom Hiddleston, was called I Saw the Light. I just saw the light.” Although the song initially had little commercial success, it subsequently becomes one of his best-known songs. He reportedly penned the song on the journey home from a dance in Fort Deposit, Alabama, when his mother Lilly saw a beacon light near Dannelly Field Airport and roused her son with the words, ”Hank, wake up, we’re nearly home. Hank Williams’s “I Saw the Light” is one of the finest examples of country gospel.