Gospel Memories

Series produced by WLUW

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Produced and hosted by gospel music historian Bob Marovich, Gospel Memories is an hour of classic African American gospel, jubilee, and spiritual music.

First airing on Chicago's WLUW-FM in May 2001, Gospel Memories with Bob Marovich is an celebration of African American sacred music and the music makers who indirectly helped give birth to rock and roll and soul.

The Gospel Memories catalog includes more than 17,000 recordings of vintage gospel, spiritual, and jubilee music spanning the 1890s to the 1980s...from the vaults of the finest and most comprehensive gospel music collections in the world. Some recordings have been reissued commercially, but far more are rare and out-of-print, being heard on the radio for the first time, or for the first time in years.

Choirs, quartets, ensembles, soloists, duets, preachers, singing evangelists, prodigious instrumentalists, sanctified congregational singing, professionals and amateurs, and interviews with living legends of gospel music -- all can all be found on Gospel Memories. Tune in and turn on! Hide full description

First airing on Chicago's WLUW-FM in May 2001, Gospel Memories with Bob Marovich is an celebration of African American sacred music and the music makers who indirectly helped give birth to rock and roll and soul.

The Gospel Memories catalog includes more than 17,000 recordings of vintage gospel, spiritual, and jubilee music spanning the 1890s to the 1980s...from the vaults of the finest and most comprehensive gospel music collections in the world. Some recordings have been reissued commercially, but far more are rare and out-of-print, being heard on the radio for the first time, or for the first time in years.

Choirs, quartets, ensembles, soloists, duets, preachers, singing evangelists, prodigious instrumentalists, sanctified congregational singing, professionals and amateurs, and... Show full description


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Words and music with Pastor Steven Hawkins, former Checker Records gospel recording artist.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:38
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This episode features tribute sets to Joe "Peanuts" Cook, Evang. Rosie Wallace, Eddie Robinson, and Jamaican gospel star Otis Wright.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jun 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 1