Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dolly Parton, on why her proposed TV series about a country star turned gospel singer met with such little interest
...performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered The Gospel According to St. Ann, a four-hour mini-series starring Ann-Margret as a self-made sports mogul. For NBC he is developing a Tom Clancy mini-series and several sitcoms, including a comic version of Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte and a Love, American Style with animals...
...Jubilee Quartet or a 1935 recording of a South African choir that shows the influence of African-American music worldwide. More recent performers are featured as well, including the Soul Stirrers, the Staple Singers, Jessye Norman, Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland, all the way up to such contemporary neo-gospel acts as BeBe and CeCe Winans...
...took five years to produce, at a cost of $1 million, quite a sum for radio (most of the funding came from the National Endowment for the Humanities). The production crew unearthed rare archival material and conducted more than 250 hours of interviews. Some of the older gospel singers interviewed died before the series was completed, and that brought home to Reagon the importance of her efforts: "I realized I was creating a record of a part of society that would probably be passed over if we were not doing the series...
...moved," Reagon says in one episode. "But within the African-American tradition there is a high value put on being caught up in the singing." Listening to Aretha Franklin's graceful flight through the softly powerful hymn Never Grow Old, or the Barrett Sisters' vocal exodus through the redemptive gospel song I Don't Feel Noways Tired, one cannot help being caught up, regardless of one's personal faith. Wade in the Water is a deluge of joy that sweeps the listener away...