Gospel at Newport 1959/63-66 [Live]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 31, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EH6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,416 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Christian's Automobile [#]

2. Only Believe [#]

3. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning [#]

4. Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield [#]

5. Swing Down, Chariot [#]

6. Jesus Hear My Prayer [#]

7. I've Got So Much to Shout About [#]

8. Trouble in the Land Will Soon Be Over [#]

9. You Better Mind [#]

10. See God's Ark A-Moving

11. What a Time [#]

12. Highway to Heaven [#]

13. Samson and Delilah

14. This Little Light of Mine [#]

15. John the Revelator [#]

16. Every Day Will Be Sunday (By and By) [#]

17. Just a Closer Walk With Thee [#]

18. Mary Don't You Weep

19. Pray on My Child

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthy Addition to Your Gospel Collection, July 19, 2008

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Shakira "Papillon" (Gardena, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gospel at Newport 1959/63-66 (Audio CD)

I have had this CD for many years. Originally, I bought it for the live recordings of Dorothy Love Coates and the Gospel Harmonettes, whom I absolutely adore. Though I have had long enough with it to become acquainted with the very good performances of some of the other groups--the male quartets and the Staples Singers shine!--Dot and the Girls are still my hands-down favorite. The energy, earthiness, and earnestness of their performances make for absolutely enthralling listening. Those days are gone, and so many of the Golden Age artists are, too. The rarity of live classic gospel musical performances is what makes this a CD to have.

1.0 out of 5 stars find a better anthology, February 27, 2010

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Sceptical (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gospel at Newport 1959/63-66 (Audio CD)

As an anthology album this CD has little to recommend it. There is too much patter between numbers--a result of being recorded live. The music does not represent the best that these artists have to offer. If you like mainstream vintage gospel groups like the Hummingbirds or the Swans, you can find better recordings elsewhere. Don't buy it for the more unusual performers included on the album. The duet numbers on this album are especially weak and uninteresting. Although I am a big Joan Baez fan, the recording of her singing "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" with the Chambers Brothers is truly god-awful! It reveals how little she understood then of the gospel idiom, however useful it was politically toward improving race relations. "Highway to Heaven" is a joyous and powerful song, but you can find livelier recordings of it (check out Marian Williams). I will hold onto this album, but probably never listen to it again. In short, a big disappointment.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, great, great !!!, July 31, 2003

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mingus1955 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gospel at Newport 1959/63-66 (Audio CD)

One of the best Gospel albums i own. And the best of them all in my opinion: the Swan Silvertones ! Highly recommended !