Wings Over Jordan Choir
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.
label: King Records (United States)
author: June Williams
former band member: List of Wings Over Jordan Choir personnel
author: Bill "Hoss" Allen
author: The Call and Post
caption: 1939
type: Q215380
active years start year: 1935
format: Spirituals
cursign: $
last aired: 1949-12-25
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.
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type: Organisation
country: United States
type: Q43229
author: Kelly Miller
past members: See list of personnel
type: Agent
record label: RCA Victor
source: --06-25
starring: Wings Over Jordan Choir
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type: Thing
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runtime: 1500.0
value: 85000
author: Helen Turner Thompson
source: --04-12
author: Hattye Easley
align: right
other names: The Negro Hour
hometown: Cleveland
source: --03-10
salign: left
width: 260
author: Call and Post editorial
start year: 1941
author: Edwin B. Jourdain, Jr.
width: 270
subject: Category:1937 radio programme debuts
start year: 1947
start year: 1948
width: 275
type: SocialPerson
home station: WGAR, Cleveland, Ohio
instrument: A cappella
subject: Category:King Records artists
width: 300
qalign: left
origin: Cleveland, Ohio, 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.
type: Group
width: 320
description: former African-American spiritual choir
years active: –
index: US
opentheme: "Go Down Moses"
width: 350
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.
image size: 250
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.
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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.
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.
source: --02-28
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: Band
label: RCA Victor
source: --04-13
announcer: Wayne Mack
value: 150
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:Musical groups from 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.
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type: MusicGroup
label: Columbia Masterworks Records