Meetin Tonight

Clara Ward Singers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 25, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EDB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,574 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come in the Room

2. Honor, Honor

3. If I Had My Way

4. Twelve Gates to the City

5. The Storm Is Passing Over

6. We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace

7. Come by Here

8. Jacob's Ladder

9. Hold On

10. You've Got to Stand Your Test in Judgement

11. Just a Closer Walk With Thee

12. How I Got Over

13. I'm Gonna Walk and Talk With Jesus

14. I Trust in God

15. Great Day [Live]

16. Traveling Shoes [Live]

17. Somebody, Sometime [Live]

18. I Opened My Mouth to the Lord [Live]

19. Let Us All Go Back [Live]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good audio stereo quality recordings of Clara Ward, March 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Meetin Tonight (Audio CD)

These recordings were made by Clara Ward for the Vanguard label in the early 1960's, one as a studio LP and the other one was a live recording at the Village Gate nightclub in Greenwich Village, NYC. These recordings were made after Clara had left the famous Savoy label, made 4 LP 's for DOT, including her Town Hall Concert live LP, and had already played in Vegas. It presents her recycled material with a new group of Ward Singers. The Original Famous Wards Singers had quit and formed the Start of Faith, etc., et al., so these were professional gospel singers singing material arranged by Clara with her at the piano on most songs. It's all very moving and it captures Clara at her best in stereo, because most of these songs were recorded by her early in her career in Mono. As a Clara Ward fan, I love this album because the recording quality is better than the older Clara records and the gospel spirit is high.. The studio recordings are the best examples in quantity of Clara's genius in arranging William Dawson genre Negro spirituals and her strength as a soloist. The studio recordings are the real jewel to Clara fans, but this CD is a bookmark in history of gospel music, nightclub music, the history of the Ward Singers, entertainment news and as a recordphile they are important.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars clara ward, January 30, 2000

By 

Roger L Vandermeer (California, United States of America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meetin Tonight (Audio CD)

I have been following Clara Ward since the program 'Jazz goes to Church' in Long Beach California in the 1950's. I first saw Clara Ward sing in Disneyland. Since then I have followed her and her singers in church and in clubs from San Francisco to Las Vegas. The backups singers. Vermettya Royster, Alice Houston, Voyla Crowly, Malvilyn Simpson, Thelma Bumpess, Mildred Means and Alton Williams as accomianist always presented the black church in all it's glorious worship of the Lord. You can feel their love of the Lord in these songs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Twa a good blind pick, December 1, 2004

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Nova G. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Meetin Tonight (Audio CD)

I try out new music by going to the library CD collection and just grabbing what I get a good sense from, and this was one of those succesful blind grabs. I didn't know a darn thing about Clara Ward, but i have found out she is awsome and, darn it, i wanna sing those songs myself! so good! Dig true gospel, you'll dig this