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Release Date: 28 May, 2002 Retail Price: $19.95 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $1.96! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Gospel Reviews
Can I Get A Witness?!!!
To my ears, some of these gospel songs in here, all sung by black performers, are unbelievably good and or brutally horrible. It depends where you are coming from, what kind of music you like and what you are used to hearing in church, I suppose. For me, a middle-aged white guy, I love the rockin' toe-tapping fast songs. Man, if those songs don't get your blood going, check yourself into the nearest funeral home. The slow songs....well...just not my cup of tea.
So, the songs I loved here are "Came To Jesus" by The Mighty Clouds Of Joy; "Until I Found The Lord/Right On" by the Walter Hawkins Family; "(This Joy)The World Didn't Give It To Me" by Shirley Caesar; "Hallelujah" by the Clark Sisters, and "Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus" by the Rev. James Cleveland. There is one slow song I liked: "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" by Hawkins.
Those fast-moving songs in here are so good that they more than make up for the lesser ones. The concert ends on a high note and a fun note as it appears the song is over several times but it isn't as the drummer refuses to leave and keeps going! That obviously is staged, but who cares? It's fun to watch. The audience is fun to watch, too. They really get into it. So should you!
This is the real deal and done right!
This filmed performance of a Gospel Concert in Oakland, Calif. in 1982 is an absolutely flawless document of what this music is all about. No narration or explanation is necessary. The Mighty Clouds of Joy live up to their name with the classic "Walk Around Heaven All Day" and Walter Hawkins amazes with an accapella singalong with the audience on "What A Friend We Have in Jesus." As for James Cleveland, the Clark Sisters, and Shirley Ceasar (who I saw perform once in Charleston, SC), what more needs to be said? Just get it and put it on during an otherwise sad day.
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