My Rock / Love Lifted Me

Swan Silvertones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Specialty
• ASIN: B000000QOA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,694 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trouble in My Way

2. How I Got Over

3. After Awhile

4. Prayer in My Mouth

5. Glory to His Name

6. I'm A-Rollin'

7. Let's Go

8. Jesus Changed This Heart of Mine

9. I'm Coming Home

10. Love Lifted Me

11. Heavenly Light Shine on Me

12. The Day Will Surely Come

13. My Rock

14. Since Jesus Came into My Heart

15. I Cried

16. What Do You Know About Jesus?

17. Milky White Way

18. He Won't Deny Me

19. Jesus Is a Friend

20. Motherless Child

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The pinnacle of gospel quartet music, October 13, 2003

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Mr. David J. Wichmann (Woking, Surrey England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Rock / Love Lifted Me (Audio CD)

This album is the high point of the long and distinguished career of the Swan Silvertones. It is also perhaps the best single album of gospel quartet music.

Group leader Claude Jeter was the master of falsetto. In the early Fifties he switched to Specialty Records and reluctantly recruited some hard leads (Solomon Womack, Dewey Young, Robert Crenshaw) to augment his sweet-sounding quartet. At the same time the group moved away from pure a capella singing, adding some unobtrusive instrumentation.

The result is the best of both worlds - beautiful harmonies combined with fierce shouting (Young, Womack) and the screamiest lead singing (Crenshaw) I have ever heard. Apparently Crenshaw was sacked from the group for getting happy too quickly in concert. But in a two-minute recording he is perfect.

The arrangements by Paul Owens are superb; Jeter is at his best throughout. The great Art Rupe produced.

Music to fall out to.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smooth acapella Silvertones!, March 16, 2006

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Grumpy Old Man "Thunder" (Canyon Lake, Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Rock / Love Lifted Me (Audio CD)

I first "discovered" the Swan's Silvertones driving home from band gigs in Tennessee back in the 60's. There wasn't much on the radio at 3:00 Sunday Morning, but "Hoss" Allen's radio show out of Nashville's WLAC featured many black gospel groups. The Swans were my favorite.
I recently heard a song that so reminded me of them...of those long, lonesome moonlight treks back home...of the smell of beer and cigarettes clinging to my clothes even though my convertible top was down - it carried me back, so I knew where to look!
Today, driving through rolling hills, along beautiful rivers, the Silvertones are just the ticket! I so enjoy their smooth acapella harmonies...and I'm not a "religious" guy...just one who loves this beautiful music!!!
Five Stars from me!!! I believe I'll pick up another Alabama Blind Boys while I'm at it!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent gospel, March 15, 2006

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Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Rock / Love Lifted Me (Audio CD)

This is the perfect CD to play to see if you're dead or not: put it on, listen to any of it for one minute - if it doesn't move you in unbelievably fantastic ways, you're dead. It's impossible not to be caught up in the harmonies of this gospel group, and the power of their singing is tremendous. TROUBLE IN MIND, MY ROCK, LOVE LIFTED ME, GLORY TO HIS NAME - every one of these performances is a musical (and spiritual) experience not to be missed. The piece de resistance, however, is THE DAY WILL SURELY COME: I never heard a 3-minute recording build, chorus after chorus, to such a climax as this song, and then with 30 seconds left the climax explodes, like a giant wave crashing on a beach, to something even more powerful. I've listened to that cut a hundred times (literally) and every single time it tears at my heart and brings tears to my eyes. The Swan Silvertones are the ultimate housewreckers in my book, and these are their finest recordings. A must-get CD for anyone with life still in them.