Thursday, February 7, 2008

GOSPEL PRAISE FRIDAYS!!

GOSPEL PRAISE FRIDAY!

I hope and pray that you enjoy every minute of This Day, as
This Day, will never be back around again!

There are so many opportunities that have been packed into This Day for each of us to parktake of. The fullness--the freedoms--the breakthroughs--the healing--the wisdom--the understanding--the giving of yourself--the recieving of sent gifts--the compassion--the forgiveness....the praising, the obedience done....

ALL OF THIS AND MORE HAS BEEN PACKED INTO,
This Day.

Let us Enjoy This Day in all it's fullness-Let us enjoy His presence in all His fullness.

As it says in Psalms 85:10 "Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed."

What are you reaching for? Don't you know that each day has been prepared for you to accomplish everything that comes your way!

What are you reaching for? What are you focused on?
Reach for Jesus-Reach for God-Reach for His Wisdom-Reach for His way-You Can Make It !

Don't reach for your own solutions--Reach for His! They WorK!

Faith that pleases Him.

Now, lets get started with First things First.
THANK YOU-THANK YOU LORD! YOU GET THE GLORY FROM MY LIFE!
I'VE NEVER LOST MY PRAISE OR FAITH! \0/\0/\0/

Let us Speak The Faith that pleases Him!
Use your faith to run fear away and kill it! Amen!



SOME BIG GOSPEL STAR'S SHARE THE STAGE TO GIVE ...
TRIBUTE TO ARETHA FRANKLN(one good thing about bet)

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Richard Smallwood & Vision Featuring Kim Burrell
"Journey"
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"Total Praise" - Richard Smallwood & Vision



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Here's a little something Special for you.

Marion Williams -"I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About..."

And Some of Herstory -Provided along with the video.

....enjoy This Day.

With the Stars of Faith, "I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About In My Song"from the early 60s TV show "Hotenanny", hosted by Jack Linkletter. The episode containing this performance first aired 9/28/1963, from the University of Pittsburgh.

She did two songs on this show.By Robert Santelli:Gospel has been the main source of vocal inspiration for American popular music in the twentieth century.

Nearly every great black vocalist, male or female, first learned to sing in church. Many left the sacred world for the economic opportunity and stardom that beckoned from beyond the pews and altars, but they took the gospel vocal tradition with them.

Sam Cooke, Clyde McPhatter, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston—the list is long. Yet many others stayed in the church, preferring to sing praise to Jesus than to cross over and become a pop singer. Mahalia Jackson was one such gospel singer.

Marion Williams was another.The sacred themes and religiosity of gospel music were, and remain, removed from the more wide‑open issues of carnal love, material gain and other earthly delights that fill popular music. But the manner of singing, the way that gospel singers celebrate the path to Heaven, has so infiltrated pop music that sometimes it's impossible to distinguish one singing style from the other. That is why Williams, for one, has been called "the equal of any blues singer alive" by Jon Pareles of the New York Times and "among the greatest of jazz singers" by esteemed jazz critic Whitney Balliett in the New Yorker.

Gospel music critic Lopate believes Williams' close connection to blues and jazz came from her need to go beyond the norm. "Marion always flirted with danger when she was really improvising," says Lopate. "She might not have had the pop sensibility of, say, Aretha Franklin, but Marion could take a song and remake it so that the lines that exist between gospel and the blues, or gospel and jazz, were totally erased. In that respect, she was an absolute vocal genius.

"Producer Heilbut agrees. "I'd watch Marion again and again play with the rhythm of a song and change it in a way that made absolute musical sense. There was a blues essence in her style, particularly her phrasing, which, in my opinion, was unequalled."Williams also had such a wide vocal range, adds Heilbut, that she could hit soprano notes and growl like a blues woman, practically at the same time.

"Her range of musical colors was remarkable, and she would never sing a number the same way twice. Marion used to say, 'If you want someone to repeat herself, I'm the world's worst.' Well, that had a lot to do with why she was the world's best."All of this is true. But if you've never heard Marion Williams sing, most likely the sheer drama of her vocal style will touch you first. The fact that Williams could hit the highest notes and then suddenly drop two octaves or intonate with strains of deep blues or turn her voice into a wildly improvisational instrument the way Louis Armstrong did with his trumpet all added up to an intensely dramatic redemption of spirit and soul.


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