None But the Righteous: Chess Gospel Greats

Track Listings

1. Don't You Want to Go - Meditation Singers

2. None But the Righteous - The Norfleet Brothers

3. Anyway You Bless Me Lord - Bells of Joy

4. Never Grow Old - Aretha Franklin

5. Oh, What a Meeting - The Soul Stirrers

6. I've Been Weeping a Mighty Long Time - The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

7. When My Time Comes - Prof. Alex Bradford

8. Resting Easy - The Soul Stirrers

9. Two Wings - Utah Smith

10. Mother Loves Her Children - Rev. C.L. Franklin

11. Old Time Religion - The Violinaires

12. Life in Heaven Is Free - Cleo Jackson Randle

13. Walk in the Light

14. Angels Keep Watching over Me - Sammy Bryant

15. Floods of Joy - Windy City Four

16. I'm Gonna Tell God - Elder Charles D. Beck

17. You've Got the Jordan River to Cross - Martha Bass

18. Don't Give Up - Southern Stars

Tracks:

Don't You Want To Go - The Meditation Singers
None But The Righteous - The Norfleet Brothers
Anyway You Bless Me Lord - The Bells Of Joy
Never Grow Old - Aretha Franklin
Oh What A Meeting - The Soul Stirrers
I've Been Weeping For A Mighty Long Time - The Original Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi
When My Time Comes - Reverend Alex Bradford
Resting Easy - The Soul Stirrers
Two Wings - Reverend Utah Smith
Your Mother Loves Her Children - Reverend C.L. Franklin
Old Time Religion - The Violinaires
Life In Heaven Is Free - Cleo Jackson Randle
Walk In The Light - The Evangelist Singers Of Alabama
The Angels Keep Watching Over Me - Sammy Bryant
Floods Of Joy - The Windy City Four
I'm Gonna Tell God - Elder Beck
You've Got The Jordan River To Cross - Martha Bass
Don't Give Up - The Southern Stars

Customer Reviews:

Great Gospel from Chess Records.......2003-04-28

Chess records may not be a label generally associated with gospel music; it's probably better known for Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, etc. But the label recorded a large body of fine gospel music and this collection gives an introduction to the breadth and variety of these fine recordings.

The collection includes both well known artists and other fine artists that are little known, such as Cleo Jackson Randle, Sammy Bryant and Elder Beck. These three all do a fine number on this cd, but recordings by these artists are hard to find.
Martha Bass, a gospel diva of St.Louis is not as well known as her daughter, Fontella Bass, who hit the pop charts in the 60's with "Rescue me", and joins in on keyboards and backing vocals with her mother on the song "You've got the Jordan river to cross".

More known artists on this cd include The Soul Stirrers, with two selections on this cd from 1966, featuring Martin Jacox's growling and Willie Rogers as singers. Other well known artists here include Alex Bradford and The Five Blind boys of Mississippi.
But the best known of them all is the daughter of the preacher whose sermons were already being issued by the label and luckily they did not only record the sermons of that preacher but also some of the singing of his young teenage dauhter - Aretha Franklin. Her singing was just beginning to show the maturity that would make her "the Queen of Soul". On "Never grow old", perhaps her greatest early recording, you hear her unhurried approach driven by the claps and hollers of a responsive congregation as she sings of the joy of heaven, the "land where we never grow old."

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1. Don't You Want to Go - Meditation Singers
2. None But the Righteous - The Norfleet Brothers
3. Anyway You Bless Me Lord - Bells of Joy
4. Never Grow Old - Aretha Franklin
5. Oh, What a Meeting - The Soul Stirrers
6. I've Been Weeping a Mighty Long Time - The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
7. When My Time Comes - Prof. Alex Bradford
8. Resting Easy - The Soul Stirrers
9. Two Wings - Utah Smith
10. Mother Loves Her Children - Rev. C.L. Franklin
11. Old Time Religion - The Violinaires
12. Life in Heaven Is Free - Cleo Jackson Randle
13. Walk in the Light
14. Angels Keep Watching over Me - Sammy Bryant
15. Floods of Joy - Windy City Four
16. I'm Gonna Tell God - Elder Charles D. Beck
17. You've Got the Jordan River to Cross - Martha Bass
18. Don't Give Up - Southern Stars