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believe you got to move. You.
may be high, you may be low,
you may be rich, you may be
poor, but when the lord get
ready, you got to move child.”

-— Clarence Fountain, Nov.
19, 1953 from You Got to Move.
- “4. tlove too hard all my
friends sometime say, but |
believe, t believe, that a woman
should be loved that way. But it
hurts me so inside to see her treat
me so unkind. Somebocly, some-
where, tell her it's so untair. Can
get a witness?” — Marvin Gaye,
Chart debut Nov. 2, 1963, Can I
Get A Witness?

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such as Marvin Gaye, blues
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rock musicians like Bryan Adams
all draw from the sanctified well-
spring of gospel music. :

Soul, blues, rock, alf strive to:
lift fans to a passionate higher.

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The rock concert experience,
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faithful gathered in American
gospel churches.

It’s about release, confirma-
lion and epiphany.

Modern: blues singers owe
their brand of frenzy to the exam-
ple set by gospel quartet Jearls.

Substitute generic references
of “my baby” for “my Lord” and
presto, soul music reveals itself
as reheated gospel.

By definition, gospel music
will never be mainstream. But
from the mid-1940s through the
1950s, gospel music saw its gold-
en age.

The Five Blind Boys of

‘Alabama were among the many

oulstanding pioneering gospel
quartets.
- Along with proups fike The

Swan Silvertones and The Bells.
of Joy, the Blind Boys cut some .

of their best tracks in the 1950s,
It is.no coincidence that R&B

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THOSE SHARING birthelays
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English actress Nell Gwynne
in 1650 (she started her career
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Drury Lane Theatre and went
arto became the mistress of
Charles IH, Irish novelist
Janes Joyce in 1882 and jazz
saxophonist Stan Getz in 1927,

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