Wings Over Jordan Choir
show name: Wings Over Jordan
alias: The Negro Hour Choir
quote: Well, we've bounced all over Italy, North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium and Germany in a six by six truck and now these cushions are so soft, I'm afraid to sit down for fear I'll sink through one.
subject: Category:1937 radio programme debuts
source: --04-13
hometown: United States
quote: If today's children knew how much was invested, and the things that they are enjoying today ... rock-and-roll ... everything has its base in that music. And they should learn to cherish the source. And we should tell them the source. The source is those early pioneers of music who did it not only for entertainment, but as a source of nourishment to the human soul and body.
quote: I was planning to leave the choir soon, to accept a position as head of the music department at Albany State College ... when I told Rev. Settle of my feelings regarding his treatment of choir members, he denounced me bitterly. He told me that I was the worst conductor he had ever had. This, in spite of the fact that out of the 14 conductors he has had in ten years, I am the only one who was ever recognized by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
width: 300
quote: The messages that they sang gave the black people hope. We still sing those songs, written by black writers, because we're still in that hope that one day we will be ... just ... people.
subject: Category:American music radio programs
italic title: no
description: former African-American spiritual choir
author: June Williams
audio format: Monaural sound
width: 275
quote: 40.0
width: 260
subject: Category:King Records artists
author: Call and Post editorial
width: 270
fmt: eq
value: 85000
instrument: A cappella
type: Agent
index: US
type: SocialPerson
quote: The fame of Wings Over Jordan has not been confined to this musical organization, but has reflected favorably upon the city of Cleveland, and upon Gethsemane Baptist Church itself. Few churches in the nation are better known than this one ... Any church would be proud of the honor to have its pastor on a USO tour, bringing joy and inspiration to millions of soldiers lonely for home and peace.
subject: Category:Musical groups from Cleveland
source: --06-25
subject: Category:1949 radio programme endings
width: 350
author: Archibald MacLeish
width: 320
quote: And to the men and women of the "Wings Over Jordan" chorus, I found myself saying over and over again: "that crying, your music. It's crying, way down inside. It's crying thousands of years back. It's crying for a God to lead a puzzled and distressed world of men to higher things and things more of the spirit and less of the material ... And it will come because underneath it all is a foundation, the foundation of a human spirit which some day, sometime, somewhere will prevail over all else."
value: 150
value: 1000000
announcer: Wayne Mack
subject: Category:Mutual Broadcasting System programs
subject: Category:1930s American radio programs
start year: 1941
salign: left
type: Organisation
start year: 1948
start year: 1947
type: MusicGroup
subject: Category:1935 establishments in Ohio
quote: The best contributions radio can make to meeting the entire problem is by remembering Negroes whenever a program is being worked out on which they or their contributions can be included—and included unostentatiously. Many programs are already doing a constructive job in this direction. Some, on the war, have included mention of Negro heroes. Some, on production, have included Negro workers. Others have drawn attention to outstanding Negro cultural contributions to our civilization. All this is a good start—but only a start.
type: Organization
author: The Call and Post
quote: Choral groups have always been my hobby, and I saw in this group an opportunity to preserve America's finest contribution to the music world—the Negro spiritual.
cursign: $
record label: RCA Victor
source: --03-10
author: Glenn T. Settle
runtime: 1500.0
align: left
quote: My only knowledge of Dr. Suttle is derived from his relation to . I am thoroughly convinced, however, that he is a man of sound intelligence, deep seated piety and of earnest consecration and devotion to the welfare of his race. His conduct of the Sunday morning program is characterized by a reverent and devout spirit which is deeper than the requirement of a broadcast program ... Of all the Sunday morning broadcast which bombarded the throne of Heaven, none are more intense with spiritual meaning, and power than those conveyed in the jubilee melodies, which sprung out of the soul of unsophisticated black folk.
type: Q43229
quote: When this war is over, there shall be no North or South, white or colored, but just all united loyal citizens of the United States.
quote: Members of the "Wings Over Jordan" choir, prior to the organization of the group, were mainly members of the Gethsemane Church choir. Few of the vocalists have had any formal musical training. Men in the group were house painters, garage attendants, chauffeurs, WPA workers and elevator operators, while women were employed as maids, cooks and seamstresses.
source: Cleveland Press editor-in-chief
type: Q215380
author: Bill "Hoss" Allen
author: Kenneth Slaughter
language: English
width: 250
type: Q24229398
author: Kelly Miller
label: RCA Victor
source: --11-08
past members: See list of personnel
years active: –
source: WLAC announcer
rec location: Hotel Statler ; CBS and Mutual affiliates
opentheme: "Go Down Moses"
hometown: Cleveland
quote: Now, almost twenty years later, there is no Wings Over Jordan. From national and international tours, world recognition and musical artistry, the singers that were integral parts of this choir have gone their separate ways—some to fame and fortune, some to death, to prison; some to routine living and all to reminiscing.
subject: Category:American Christian radio programs