Thomas A. Dorsey

...credited to Dorsey, was taken from a 1844 hymn entitled, "Maitland," by American composer, George N. Allen (1812-1877). Dorsey said he used it as inspiration. The "Maitland" music was for the text "Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone", it first...

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...side, and carols and black gospel songs on the other. (The latter include Presley and his backup singers, the Jordanaires, performing Thomas A. Dorsey's "Peace in the Valley," which was still a daring thing for an up-and-coming white...

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...such gospel greats as the Rev. Shirley Caesar , Albertina Walker , Dorothy Love Coats , Clara Ward , the Rev. James Cleveland and Thomas Dorsey , will be performed March 20-22 in the Lou Rawls Center of Performing Arts at Florida Memorial...

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...Man With The Gold Guitar", and, into the 1930s, he was billed as "The Guitar Wizard". His partnership with Dorsey ended in 1932, but he remained much in demand as a session musician, working with John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson , Memphis...

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For a while, any new gospel-blues song, regardless of who wrote it, was called a "Dorsey" until Dorsey himself coined the name "gospel". Dorsey died in Chicago on January 23, 1993. This historical marker sits alongside U.S. Hwy 78 because...

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...and was reluctant to hire a singer who could not read music. Martin nonetheless persuaded Dorsey, after three auditions, to hire her as part of a trio he had formed to introduce his songs to churches. She proved to be an able organizer with a...

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...to many listeners and earned her a long and successful operatic and recording career. 4. "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again," Thomas A. Dorsey (1934) The acknowledged father of modern gospel music, Thomas A. Dorsey made only a...

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...funk band. A canny embellisher, he often created a counterpoint to Mr. Scofield's leads. He also sang, notably on "Never Turn Back," a Thomas A. Dorsey tune that in this version became a sprawling but hard-driving jam. Chief vocal...

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Dorsey died in a nursing care center last week at the age of 75. Dorsey loved singing "Precious Lord,'' a song penned by her cousin Thomas Dorsey who was known as the "father of gospel.'' She traveled the world singing gospel, performing...

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...it's what he's tapped into. Famous gospel predecessors have had varied ideas of how to combine the religious and the secular: Thomas Dorsey was a blues musician who came to the gospel side and brought the blues with him; Ray Charles...

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