Word: hallelujah
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...couple of purses, while singing Packin' Up (for a trip to the "Great Beyond"). Singer Marion Williams was remarkable not only for her display of a gold tooth embellished with a star, but also for her voice-supple, easy-ranging and capable of lyric flights and hallelujah shouts of shattering force. Singer Williams and the other members of her Stars of Faith group are riding comfortably on a trend that could change the face of U.S. pop music: the commercialization of the gospel song...
Swing Classics (Lionel Hampton and his jazz groups; RCA Victor). A collection of some of the hallelujah blasts-Whoa Babe, Central Avenue Breakdown, Jivin' with Jarvis-that made Hampton tall on the bandstand back in the late '30s, when most of these tracks were recorded. The assorted personnel-Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie. Coleman Hawkins, Jess Stacy-are first-rate, and the unremitting frenzy of their attack is a fine antidote to the cool moods of modern chamber jazz...
...gospel belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
...learning for themselves was another matter. Until 1934, Methodist ministers needed no bachelor's degree for ordination, qualified by a laughable oral exam. One minister bragged about his answers. What is the world's highest mountain? "Mount Zion, bless the Lord." The longest river? "River of salvation, hallelujah...
...Simpson who has advanced the proposition (in his One-Way Pendulum, not yet produced in this country) that if one weighing machine can speak your weight, five hundred weighing machines can sing the Hallelujah Chorus. Weighing machines that speak your weight are a phase of the twentieth-century American revolution that has not yet reached America, but the perfection of Simpson's repsonse to them, the carrying of lunacy to its amusingly disquieting end, elicited admiration and aroused high expectations for the two plays to be presented by Club 47 as its first production of the summer season...