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The Great Gospel WomenThe Annual Good Friday Gospel Show
Leonard plays some of the greatest Easter gospel songs of all time on his annual Good Friday gospel tribute. Plus, the daughter of a Lutheran minister talks about her changing relationship with faith and religion. And we tackle your questions about milk on this week’s Please Explain.
A Good Friday Gospel Celebration
Leonard plays some of the greatest Easter recordings from the golden age of black gospel on his annual Good Friday gospel show.
Good Friday Gospel Playlist
“That Day on Calvary,” The Swan Silvertones (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
“The Hammer Rings,” Mme. Edna Gallman Cooke (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
”I Shall Know Him,” Dorothy Love Coates and the Gospel Harmonettes (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
“One Day,” The Soul Stirrers (Just a Closer Walk with Thee)
“One Day,” Angelic Gospel Singers & the Dixie Hummingbirds (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
"Salvation Is Free,” Mahalia Jackson (Great Gospel Women, Vol. 2)
“If Jesus Had to Pray,” Robert Anderson (Great Gospel Men)
“What Kind of Man Is This?” The Caravans (The Great 1955 Shrine Concert)
“Sun Didn’t Shine,” Alphabetical Four (As Good as it Gets: Black Gospel)
“What About Me?” Swanee Quintet (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
“Wasn’t It a Pity?” Clara Ward & the Famous Ward Singers (I Feel the Holy Spirit)
“Can’t No Grave Hold My Body Down,” Marion Williams (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
“He Arose From the Grave” Sis. Rosetta Tharpe (Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter)
Living the Gospel Beloved Songs of Easter is available for purchase at TimeLife.com
Great Gospel Women, Vol. 2 is available for purchase at amazon.com
Great Gospel Men is available for purchase at amazon.com
The Great 1955 Shrine Concert is available for purchase at amazon.com
As Good as it Gets: Black Gospel is available for purchase at amazon.com
I Feel the Holy Spirit is available for purchase at amazon.com
Easter Everywhere
Darcey Steinke grew up as the daughter of a Lutheran minister and a former beauty queen. In her memoir Easter Everywhere, she talks about how she lost her religious faith, and then regained it.
Easter Everywhere is available for purchase at amazon.com
Events: Darcey Steinke will be reading and signing books
Monday, April 16 at 7pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers
50 Prince Street, at Mulberry Street
Please Explain: Milk
This week’s udderly fascinating Please Explain is all about milk! Joseph H. Hotchkiss, a Professor of Food Science at Cornell University, and Ron Osofsky, a Dairy Farmer Ronnybrook Dairy Farm in upstate New York, answer your questions. Call 212-433-9692.
Do you drink milk? Leave a comment about your milk preferences.
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