Gospel 101
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- The Basics
Find out what gospel’s all about right here, as we break it down to the building blocks. Prepare to be surrounded by the sound a soul makes when it’s filled to bursting with faith, and all that praise comes pouring out in songs of the Spirit. Mahalia Jackson was one of gospel’s first superstars, and you’ll understand why the moment you hear her belting out “Amazing Grace,” offering up to the world all of God’s power and glory. The Edwin Hawkins Singers brought spiritual power to the Pop charts in 1969 by putting some R&B sway into the 18th-century hymn “Oh Happy Day” and letting their soulful shout come shining through. Just three years later, family band the Staple Singers took that soulful slant and ran with it all the way to #1, putting a downright sultry strut on their song of salvation “I’ll Take You There.”
In Next Steps, God puts His finger on the fast-forward button with help from some bumpin’ R&B beats.$25.77 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Amazing Grace Mahalia Jackson 2:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Oh Happy Day The Edwin Hawkins Singers 5:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Amen The Soul Stirrers 3:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Yeah Yolanda Adams 3:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 I Need You to Survive Hezekiah Walker 7:31 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 We Fall Down Donnie McClurkin 4:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Shackles (Praise You) Mary Mary 3:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Hush The Blind Boys of Alabama 4:08 $0.69 View In iTunes 9 Total Praise Richard Smallwood 4:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Revolution Kirk Franklin 5:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 I'll Take You There The Staple Singers 4:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Get Right Church James Cleveland & The Voices of Tabernacle 3:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Let the Praise Begin Fred Hammond 5:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 I Understand Smokie Norful 4:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Mighty Clouds of Joy 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Nobody Knows the Trouble I See The Dixie Hummingbirds 3:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 No Charge Shirley Caesar 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always) Sam Cooke 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 When the Saints Go Marching In Clara Ward & The Clara Ward Singers 2:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Encourage Yourself Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers 6:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 In the Upper Room Mahalia Jackson 7:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 In the Sanctuary Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers 6:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Never Would Have Made It Marvin Sapp 6:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Optimistic Sounds of Blackness 5:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 25 Imagine Me Kirk Franklin 5:18 $1.29 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Next Steps
The seeds sown by the soul-gospel pioneers of the ’60s and ’70s bore sweet, sanctified fruit for decades to come. When Take 6 bounced their jaw-dropping jazz harmonies off jumpin’ New Jack Swing grooves on “I L-O-V-E U,” it wasn’t a boy-girl crush they were crooning about, but the covenant between humanity and God. Big, fat synth riffs and percolating drum-machine beats come bounding out of BeBe & CeCe Winans’ all-I-need-is-Him offering “Addictive Love,” an R&B chart ruler in 1991. But all these big, bold voices would probably never have blended together in praise of the Lord if not for the sound laid down by classic harmony quartets like the Swan Silvertones, who bring down the house by shouting, moaning, and wailing with all the strength inside them to glorify God on “Well, Well, Well.”
Follow the song of the spirit from Memphis soul to super-smooth slow jams and beyond, in Deep Cuts.$25.56 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 Praise On the Inside J Moss 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 I L-O-V-E U Take 6 4:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley Thomas A. Dorsey 3:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Broken But I'm Healed Byron Cage 6:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 His Eye Is on the Sparrow Mahalia Jackson 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Well, Well, Well Swan Silvertones 2:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Nearer to Thee Sam Cooke 3:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Open My Heart Yolanda Adams 5:40 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Go Tell It On the Mountain The Mighty Clouds of Joy 2:42 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 The Pressure, Pt. 1 Sounds of Blackness 6:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 God Still Loves Me Andraé Crouch 6:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Ain't No Need to Worry The Winans 5:46 $1.29 View In iTunes 13 Still I Rise Yolanda Adams 5:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 The Struggle Is Over Youth for Christ 4:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 How I Got Over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, los Angeles, January 13, 1972) Aretha Franklin 5:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Faithful Is Our God Hezekiah Walker & LFC 7:24 $1.29 View In iTunes 17 Celebrate (He Lives) Fred Hammond 4:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Addictive Love Bebe Winans & Cece 5:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 The Will of God Karen Clark Sheard 5:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Work It Out Bonafide Praisers 5:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Wholy Holy (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, los Angeles, January 13, 1972) Aretha Franklin 6:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 22 God Is Able Smokie Norful 4:12 $1.29 View In iTunes 23 You Brought The Sunshine The Clark Sisters 4:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 God Didn't Give Up Deitrick Haddon 4:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 Save a Seat for Me The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Deep Cuts
The greatest gospel cuts have always been the ones that focus on feeling, not format. That can mean Reverend Al Green putting a little hip-shaking Memphis mojo on “Be With Me Jesus.” It can mean the gals of Trin-I-Tee 5:7 cooing cool and sweet in classic slow-jam style, telling the world all about “God’s Grace.” It can even mean bluesman Blind Willie Johnson putting his slashing slide guitar and rough-edged voice to the service of the Lord for “God Moves On the Water.” Down through the years, they’ve all spread the word in voices as different as they are determined to make sure their faith is felt.
$25.95 Deep Cuts
Name Artist Time Price 1 Revive Us Anointed 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 That's What I Believe Donnie McClurkin 5:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 God Has a Plan Sandra Crouch 4:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Oh My God Debra Killings 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 I Go to the Rock (feat. The Georgia Mass Choir) Whitney Houston 4:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 I Stood On the Banks of Jordan (Part 2) Reverend James Cleveland 3:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Down by the Riverside Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Be With Me Jesus Al Green 2:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 Goin' Up Yonder Walter Hawkins 9:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Shake Yourself Loose Vickie Winans 4:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Christian Automobile The Dixie Hummingbirds 2:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Different Now Out of Eden 3:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Your Will Darius Brooks 6:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 14 We Shall Not Be Moved Sweet Honey In the Rock 2:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 The Storm Is Passing The Persuasions 3:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Healed Donald Lawrence 5:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Ordinary Just Won't Do Commissioned 8:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 God Moves On the Water Blind Willie Johnson 2:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Mother's Prayer Has Followed Me The Harmonizing Four 2:57 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Take My Hand Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama 3:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 Any Day VIP Mass Choir 6:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Everyday (feat. Michael Mcdonald) Darwin Hobbs 6:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 23 Why Me? Kierra "Kiki" Sheard 3:26 $1.29 View In iTunes 24 Worthy L.A. Mass Choir 4:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 God's Grace Trin-i-tee 5:7 4:21 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Complete Set
If you want to take a walk into the house that gospel built, you’ve got to get to know the architecture from the ground up. These are the bricks that set a firm foundation for all those who sing straight from their souls, touching anyone who’s ready to be moved by the sound of the Spirit. Over the years, their message has moved in so many different directions, only the Lord Himself could keep track of them all. But from the Shakespeare of spirituals, Thomas A. Dorsey, to the blues-belting, guitar-slinging Sister Rosetta Tharpe, all the way up to Kirk Franklin, who found new ways to worship by bringing an R&B groove and a hip-hop heart into the mix, here are all the crucial cuts that make the music matter.
$77.28 Complete Set
Name Artist Time Price 1 Amazing Grace Mahalia Jackson 2:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 2 Oh Happy Day The Edwin Hawkins Singers 5:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Amen The Soul Stirrers 3:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Yeah Yolanda Adams 3:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 5 I Need You to Survive Hezekiah Walker 7:31 $1.29 View In iTunes 6 We Fall Down Donnie McClurkin 4:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Shackles (Praise You) Mary Mary 3:16 $1.29 View In iTunes 8 Hush The Blind Boys of Alabama 4:08 $0.69 View In iTunes 9 Total Praise Richard Smallwood 4:58 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Revolution Kirk Franklin 5:37 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 I'll Take You There The Staple Singers 4:45 $1.29 View In iTunes 12 Get Right Church James Cleveland & The Voices of Tabernacle 3:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Let the Praise Begin Fred Hammond 5:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 I Understand Smokie Norful 4:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 15 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Mighty Clouds of Joy 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Nobody Knows the Trouble I See The Dixie Hummingbirds 3:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 No Charge Shirley Caesar 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always) Sam Cooke 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 When the Saints Go Marching In Clara Ward & The Clara Ward Singers 2:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Encourage Yourself Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers 6:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 21 In the Upper Room Mahalia Jackson 7:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 In the Sanctuary Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers 6:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Never Would Have Made It Marvin Sapp 6:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Optimistic Sounds of Blackness 5:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 25 Imagine Me Kirk Franklin 5:18 $1.29 View In iTunes 26 Praise On the Inside J Moss 3:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 27 I L-O-V-E U Take 6 4:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley Thomas A. Dorsey 3:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 29 Broken But I'm Healed Byron Cage 6:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 30 His Eye Is on the Sparrow Mahalia Jackson 3:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 31 Well, Well, Well Swan Silvertones 2:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 32 Nearer to Thee Sam Cooke 3:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 33 Open My Heart Yolanda Adams 5:40 $0.99 View In iTunes 34 Go Tell It On the Mountain The Mighty Clouds of Joy 2:42 $0.99 View In iTunes 35 The Pressure, Pt. 1 Sounds of Blackness 6:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 36 God Still Loves Me Andraé Crouch 6:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 Ain't No Need to Worry The Winans 5:46 $1.29 View In iTunes 38 Still I Rise Yolanda Adams 5:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 39 The Struggle Is Over Youth for Christ 4:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 40 How I Got Over (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, los Angeles, January 13, 1972) Aretha Franklin 5:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 41 Faithful Is Our God Hezekiah Walker & LFC 7:24 $1.29 View In iTunes 42 Celebrate (He Lives) Fred Hammond 4:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 43 Addictive Love Bebe Winans & Cece 5:25 $1.29 View In iTunes 44 The Will of God Karen Clark Sheard 5:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 45 Work It Out Bonafide Praisers 5:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 46 Wholy Holy (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, los Angeles, January 13, 1972) Aretha Franklin 6:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 47 God Is Able Smokie Norful 4:12 $1.29 View In iTunes 48 You Brought The Sunshine The Clark Sisters 4:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 49 God Didn't Give Up Deitrick Haddon 4:27 $0.99 View In iTunes 50 Save a Seat for Me The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 51 Revive Us Anointed 4:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 52 That's What I Believe Donnie McClurkin 5:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 53 God Has a Plan Sandra Crouch 4:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 54 Oh My God Debra Killings 4:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 55 I Go to the Rock (feat. The Georgia Mass Choir) Whitney Houston 4:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 56 I Stood On the Banks of Jordan (Part 2) Reverend James Cleveland 3:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 57 Down by the Riverside Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2:29 $0.99 View In iTunes 58 Be With Me Jesus Al Green 2:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 59 Goin' Up Yonder Walter Hawkins 9:24 $0.99 View In iTunes 60 Shake Yourself Loose Vickie Winans 4:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 61 Christian Automobile The Dixie Hummingbirds 2:15 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 Different Now Out of Eden 3:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 63 Your Will Darius Brooks 6:02 $1.29 View In iTunes 64 We Shall Not Be Moved Sweet Honey In the Rock 2:22 $0.99 View In iTunes 65 The Storm Is Passing The Persuasions 3:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 66 Healed Donald Lawrence 5:01 $0.99 View In iTunes 67 Ordinary Just Won't Do Commissioned 8:44 $0.99 View In iTunes 68 God Moves On the Water Blind Willie Johnson 2:59 $0.99 View In iTunes 69 Mother's Prayer Has Followed Me The Harmonizing Four 2:57 $0.99 View In iTunes 70 Take My Hand Ben Harper & The Blind Boys of Alabama 3:54 $1.29 View In iTunes 71 Any Day VIP Mass Choir 6:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 72 Everyday (feat. Michael Mcdonald) Darwin Hobbs 6:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 73 Why Me? Kierra "Kiki" Sheard 3:26 $1.29 View In iTunes 74 Worthy L.A. Mass Choir 4:53 $0.99 View In iTunes 75 God's Grace Trin-i-tee 5:7 4:21 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 75 Songs
Customer Reviews
Gospel 101
A nice mixture of the old and the new.
Ben Harper?
I Didn't know Ben Harper was gospel.
