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Showing posts with label '82 TV Gospel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label '82 TV Gospel. Show all posts

19 November 2014

Angels Keep Watching Over Me (aka All Night, All Day) (With Choir)

Ettal 1976: Album (VHS, France): Ray Charles Live, Cinéthèque VCV 402, S.a.
Gospel 2002: Ray Charles Celebrates A Gospel Christmas, VHS: Urban Works, 7 October 2003; DVD: Urban Works, 23 November 2004; Audio CD: EMI Records, 27 November 2006.

Brother Ray's first documented performance of this gospel song was at Sam Cooke's funeral service, on December 18th, 1964. From Ebony:
"At the Mount Sinaï Baptist Church in Los Angeles, a crowd of 5,000 persons, some of whom arrived five hours before the scheduled last rites, overran facilities designed to accommodate 1,500. In an emotion packed atmosphere, super charged by the singing of Lou Rawls, Bobby Blue Bland and Arthur Lee Simpkins, women fainted, tears fan down men's cheeks and onlookers shouted. Gospel singer Bessy Griffin, who was to appear on the funeral program, became so grief stricken she had to be carried off. Ray Charles stepped in from the audience to sing and play Angels Keep Watching Over Me."
In this documentary Billy Preston remembered the impact of Ray's rendition (the soundscore has mixed in the version from A Gospel Christmas, in 2002):
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Monastery of Ettal, 1976 (with Sarah Jordan Powell):


'82 TV Gospel:


A Man And His Soul, 1983 (with The Andrae Crouch Singers):
Watch here.

Gospel Christmas, 2002 (with the Voices of Jubilation):


Live:
'76 LC Ettal - Released
'82 TV Gospel - Released
'83 TV Man
02 LC Gospel - Released

27 April 2010

Ray Charles In Hallelujah Gospel (1982)

Hallelujah Gospel was a TV special recorded live in 1982 at Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove (CA), hosted by Glen Campbell, and with performances by Andrae Crouch, Ray Charles, Deniece Williams, The Hawkins Family, The Imperials, Sandra Crouch, and the Church of God in Christ International Choir. The show was directed by John M. Robins. It was first aired on 7 February 1983.

Campbell introduced the Genius as "indeed a god fearing human being". Ray, playing a grand piano, performed an excellent version of All Night, All Day (Angels Keep Watching Over Me).

DVD: Image Entertainment, 16 March 2004 (1982), ASIN: B0001BKAGW.
The same program was also released on DVD under the title Coming Home – An Evening Of Gospel, on Immortal IMM940059.