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...been hearing it for years, sung with devotion by such groups as the Clara Ward Singers, the Stars of Faith and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. Recently, its spirit and style and shouts of "Yeah!" (but rarely the rest of the lyrics) have crept into popular music, but only Mahalia Jackson has been popularly successful with the pure version. A couple of years ago, Brother John Sellers and the Grandison Singers became the first to sing gospel in nightclubs. A thin flock of groups followed, some complaining bitterly that cheating preachers had driven them into it by failing to part...
Jack Paar (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). More home movies, this time of Jack's trip through the Holy Land, plus Guest Stars Mahalia Jackson and Jim Bishop. Color...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Poet Carl Sandburg reads from his "Remembrance Rock." John Raitt, Martha Wright, Mahalia Jackson and the West Point Glee Club sing. Color...
...there was no general market for genuine gospel until Mahalia Jackson made her first European tour in 1952. Now there are about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guests include George London, Isaac Stern, Mahalia Jackson...