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Collection 1953-62 (CD) - The Staple Singers

Collection 1953-62 (CD) - The Staple Singers

by MeTV Entertainment
$19.99 - $19.99
$19.99
$19.99 - $19.99
$19.99

The Staple Singers are one of the most celebrated and respected groups to have graced the gospel landscape in the post-war era, their music transcending the boundaries of the genres so that they became equally successful and admired across gospel, soul and R&B in a career that spanned six decades. The patriarch of the Staples family, Roebuck 'Pops' Staples, formed the group in Chicago with his children Cliotha, Pervis and Mavis, in 1948 when Mavis was just nine years old, and by 1952 they had signed their first recording deal with United. Over the next decade they recorded for various labels, most notably after United for Vee-Jay, Gospel and Riverside, their music already displaying a commercial bluesy edge which differentiated from much of the mainstream gospel of that era. This 3-CD anthology brings together just about all the records they released on both singles and albums during that formative part of their career when the younger members were maturing and they were honing the style which would bring them classic R&B and pop hits in subsequent decades. As well as the A and B sides of their singles, including one or two on lesser known labels, it includes all the tracks from their albums during that era - albums Uncloudy Day, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Swing Low, Gospel Program and Hammer & Nails. It's a marvellous introduction to the group at the start of their glittering career.

Track List

  1. It Rained Children
  2. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray
  3. God's Wonderful Love
  4. Uncloudy Day
  5. I Know I Got Religion
  6. Let Me Ride
  7. I'm Coming Home
  8. Help Me Jesus
  9. I Had a Dream
  10. Since He Lightened My Heavy Load
  11. Low Is the Way
  12. On My Way to Heaven
  13. I'm Leaning
  14. Going Away
  15. So Soon
  16. Downward Road
  17. Sit Down
  18. Tell Heaven
  19. Revive Us Again
  20. It's Gonna Rain
  21. I Just Can't Keep It to Myself
  22. This May Be the Last Time
  23. This Same Jesus
  24. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  25. Don't Drive Me Away
  26. Pray on
  27. Too Close
  28. Come on Up in Glory
  29. Somebody Saved Me
  30. Let's Go Home
  31. Don't Knock
  32. I've Been Scorned
  33. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
  34. Sit Down Servant
  35. I'm So Glad
  36. Born in Bethlehem
  37. Stand By Me
  38. Two Wings
  39. Calling Me
  40. Day Is Passed and Gone
  41. Good News
  42. Hammer and Nails
  43. Gloryland
  44. Everybody Will Be Happy
  45. Hear My Call Here
  46. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
  47. Great Day
  48. I'm Willin' - Part 1
  49. I'm Willin' - Part 2
  50. Do You Know Him'
  51. New-Born Soul
  52. A Dying Man's Plea
  53. New Home
  54. Gamblin' Man
  55. Use What You Got
  56. The Virgin Had One Son
  57. There Was a Star