On November 22, 1963, Americans started the morning still riding the high of the successful end to the Cuban missile crisis a mere 13 months earlier. All was well in Camelot and America was, once again, living an "Ozzie and Harriet" life style. The Civil Rights Movement were gaining momentum following Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech three months earlier. Shots fired in Dallas brought things to a temporary halt and a nation was plunged into mourning. It was, as one baby boomer put it, "the day the music stopped."
The Jesus Movement was still a few years away so hymns in church and the popular Gospel albums of 1963 helped heal believers as they came to grips with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As we remember that fated day, 50 years ago, let's pay homage to the artists behind the music.
Bones In The Valley - The Gospelaires of Dayton, Ohio
Track Listing:
- Bones In The Valley
- Nobody Knows The Trouble
- Why Should I Worry
- Thou Art Gone
- Ride This Train
- Coming Home
- Live So God Can Use You
- The Lord Will Make A Way
- Search Me Lord
- While The Blood Runs Warm
- Stay There
- The Last Day
Glory Train - The Watson Sisters
Track Listing:
- He Lives
- What A Friend We Have In Jesus
- I Don't Have To Run
- In Times Like These
- One Talk With Jesus
- Mount Olive
- Listen To The Lambs
- Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit
- Glory Train
- The Good Lord Provideth
- Jesus I'll Never Forget
- No Other Man Like The Lord
Greatest Hits - Mahalia Jackson
Track Listing:
- Walk in Jerusalem
- The Upper Room
- He Calmed The Ocean
- It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
- How I Got Over It
- Then the Answer Came
- Just Over The Hill
- That's the Way He's Done for Me
- Move on Up a Little Higher
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Pop Gospel with Chris Barber - Alex Bradford
Track Listing:
- We Sure Do Need Him Now
- God Leads His Dear Children Along
- Can't Trust Nobody
- Jesus Is The Lover of My Soul
- Walking Up Kings Highway
- They've Got To Wait On Me
- Just a Closer Walk With Thee
- They Kicked Him Out
- Lord, Lord, Lord
- I Never Shall Forget