Pious hour.
Featuring gospel: The Four Knights (‘Does Jesus care?), The Soul Stirrers (‘I want to rest’), The Selah Singers (‘He’s my rock, sword and shield’), the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (‘The story of Job’), Odetta, Wilmoth Houdini.
Also, the classical voices of Marian Anderson (to whom Toscanini said, ‘You have a voice you only hear once in a hundred years’) and Paul Robeson (‘Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen’), the Dutch soprano Jo Vincent with her Quintet (‘Whither pilgrims, whither go ye?’)
Also from ‘The Singing Detective’: Fred Waring & his Pennsylvanians (‘Dry bones’), religiously-tinged material by artists such as Elvis Presley and Patsy Cline.
Humor from Wim Sonneveld and Jaap Fischer, as well as Christmas repertoire: Nina Simone (‘Children go where I send you’) and The Comedian Harmonists (‘Stille Nacht’).
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