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Clara Ward albums featuring Shirley Caesar
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| | This Is Gospel CD (2007)
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Part of Calvin Records' expansive THIS IS GOSPEL series of compilations spotlighting the black gospel tradition, Clara Ward's THIS IS GOSPEL VOLUME 24: WHEN THE GATES is one of the strongest entries in the series. Ward is a towering figures ...
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 Clara Ward Songs
Popular or famous Clara Ward songs: How I Got Over, Happy Over There, When the Gates Swing Open, God Moves in a Mysterious Way, Out on a Hill. More music songs He'll Never Let Go of My Hand, Come in the Room, Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehova, Faith That Moves Mountains. More music songs On That Great Judgement Morning, One Way Street, There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood, Packing Up, Didn't It Rain. More music songs There Is a Mountain Filled With Blood, Fountain, Blessed Assurance, Heaven My Home, I've Heard of a City, Just One Moment.
Clara Ward Biography
Leader of the first gospel group to crossover to pop on a grand scale (in her later years, she had no qualms about appearing in godless Las Vegas), Clara Ward was an accomplished pianist and arranger, and a singer with one of the most powerful voices in the genre. In the 1950s, her group the Clara Ward singers was the toast of the gospel world and beyond, appearing at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival and other unconventional venues for gospel.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Marion Williams | Brian Auger, Vow, Thomas A. Dorsey | | Shirley Caesar | Kirk Franklin, Claude Jeter, Rev. Milton Brunson, Wynton Marsalis, Doug Williams, Melvin Williams, Michelle Williams | | Albertina Walker | Dorothy Norwood, Caravans, Rev. James Cleveland, Rev. Clay Evans, Terri McConnell, Canton Spirituals, John Morris, Kenton Rogers | | Clara Ward | Canned Heat, Matt Ward | | Henrietta Waddy | Marion Williams | | Bj÷rn Almstedt | | Gertrude Ward | | Lily Davis | | Martha Bass | | Raymond Rasberry | | Thelma Jackson |
Contemporaries
Shirley Caesar, James Cleveland, Rev. C.L. Franklin, The Caravans, Dorothy Love Coates, Ethel Waters, Albertina Walker, The Davis Sisters, George Washington Phillips, Inez Andrews
Followers
Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Ruth Brown, Fontella Bass, Marion Williams
Influences
Mahalia Jackson, Willie "The Lion" Smith
More Music Artists
Troublesome, Yorck Kronenberg
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