Word: gospeling
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Aretha Franklin (Ray Bryant Trio; Columbia). A first album by a new young (18) singer who came out of a Detroit gospel church with a voice of impressive size and some annoying mannerisms-aching swoops and ecstatic quavers. Included are All Night Long, Maybe I'm a Fool, Who Needs You? rendered in moods that vary from torchy to tempestuous...
...mutual love of music, however, we found a common bond. We formed barbershop quartets, rock 'n' roll groups, and negro gospel choirs. For riding in the backs of trucks we found the best songs were lively Congolese chants which brought the villagers dancing out of their houses as we drove...
...mighty Bronx machine was able to muster only 46,000 Levitt votes against 75,000 for Wagner; in Joe Sharkey's Brooklyn, Levitt got 103,000 against Wagner's 136,000. Even in Harlem, where Preacher-Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose word is usually accepted as gospel, was supporting Levitt, Wagner won handily...
...straight-backed chair, unplugs his mellifluous bass voice, lets it pour into the microphone. "How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? If you've just joined us. we're sure glad to have you out there listening to our program-Gospel Request Time." The first request is a hillbilly item called / Saw the Light, and when it is over, Kallinger uses the light for a transition into a five-minute commercial: "I hope many people will see the light tonight and ask Jesus to forgive them, ask Jesus to come into their hearts...
...That Woman Down There!" From 5 p.m. until 2 a.m.. Disk Jockey Kallinger alternates hot gospel platters, patent medicine commercials and high-decibel "evangelists," who pay station XERF $87.50 per quarter-hour. The preachers do not come personally to XERF; they tape their spiels in the U.S. and send them...