Wings Over Jordan Choir
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.
author: Helen Turner Thompson
quote: We didn’t like Bob Hope with the pretty girls. We were a foxhole unit, because we had to try to talk to ordinary soldiers who were fighting. We had to go to the hospitals where they were injured.
record label: RCA Victor
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.
author: James Lewis Elkins
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active years start year: 1935
source: --11-08
type: Q24229398
alias: The Negro Hour Choir
start year: 1941
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.
start year: 1947
start year: 1948
description: طاقم موسيقي من الولايات المتحدة @ar
subject: Category:Columbia Records artists
type: Q215380
value: 1000000
author: Call and Post editorial
type: Organization
quote: 40.0
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author: Kenneth Slaughter
image size: 250
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.
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type: Group
value: 52.5
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.
source: --04-13
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italic title: no
language: English
subject: Category:Musical groups from Cleveland
subject: Category:King Records artists
type: SocialPerson
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."
subject: Category:1930s American radio programs
value: 85000
last aired: 1949-12-25
subject: Category:20th-century African-American singers
type: Agent
subject: Category:American music radio programs
subject: Category:American Christian radio programs
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:1935 establishments in Ohio
subject: Category:1940s American radio programs
type: Organisation
other names: The Negro Hour
subject: Category:Mutual Broadcasting System programs
alt: A total of 44 African-American singers, plus director Glenn Thomas Settle, posing for a publicity photo with an ornate background featuring multiple window curtains. At the front are microphones labeled "WGAR" and "CBS" .
subject: Category:1937 radio programme debuts
instrument: A cappella
source: --04-12
subject: Category:1949 radio programme endings
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origin: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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.
label: King Records (United States)
value: 150
past members: See list of personnel
subject: Category:CBS Radio programs
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author: Esther Rolle
source: --02-28
author: Worth Kramer
source: --05-30
quote: We Negros shall face tyranny where ever it exists ... and when we have finished assisting America in the battles for human freedom , we shall be no less vigilant, no less determined, in breaking off the shackles of oppression form the oppressed here at home. For this is our mission, our destiny, throughout the world. We are the measurements of freedom, the storm troopers of the Rights of Man.
author: The Call and Post
author: Hattye Easley
description: former African-American spiritual choir
label: RCA Victor
width: 250
source: --03-10
record label: King Records (United States)
other location: Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio
home station: WGAR, Cleveland, Ohio