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4 June 2008

Ten All-Time Favorite Songs

Posted in: Lists — Daniel J. Mount @ 7:00 am

Last week, I posted a list of ten all-time favorite albums and invited you to contribute yours. As I promised commenter #23, Matt Baker, here’s your chance to list your all-time favorite Southern Gospel songs.

For the purposes of this list, it is fine if the originate elsewhere (hymns or CCM imports), if they’ve been recorded by a major Southern Gospel artist.

For whatever it’s worth, here is my list:

  1. It is Well with My Soul
  2. Calvary Answers for Me (Perrys)
  3. We Shall See Jesus (Cathedrals)
  4. The King is Coming
  5. I Stand Redeemed (Legacy Five)
  6. Sinner Saved By Grace (Cathedrals)
  7. Till the Storm Passes By (Gerald Wolfe)
  8. Home Free (Roger Bennett)
  9. How Great Thou Art (Kim Collingsworth)
  10. Because He Lives

Alex Woolard leaves Driven?

Posted in: Changes — Daniel J. Mount @ 6:50 am

Personnel changes happen so often in Southern Gospel that sometimes groups don’t bother to send out a press release. So often the first and sometimes the only way we hear about personnel changes is when someone attends one of their concerts and the group announces that a new individual is either filling in or is their new member.

Lottie Squires, a radio personality with WKCB 780, pens the Front Row Follies blog. Her June 3 concert update includes this comment:

I’ve got about a million pictures of Driven Quartet, so I thought I’d give them a break from camera flashes on Friday night.  But then I got into the church, and Roger and Mary Anne told me that Scott Penuel was filling in with them; Alex has taken a church in Georgia and isn’t able to travel anymore.

“Alex” is Alex Woolard, Driven’s tenor.

Kingdom Heirs’ What We Needed hits #1

Posted in: Radio — Daniel J. Mount @ 6:40 am

“What We Needed,” the Dianne Wilkinson-penned highlight to the Kingdom Heirs’ 2007 album True to the Call, sits atop the July 2008 Singing News Top 80 chart (subscribers-only link). This is the Kingdom Heirs’ fourth #1 hit; their previous three were:

  • “That’s Why I Love to Call His Name” (#1 in September 2001)
  • “I Know I’m Going There” from Forever Changed (#1 in February 2005)
  • “Forever Changed” from Forever Changed (#1 in August 2005)

The Kingdom Heirs’ song selection is among the strongest in Southern Gospel, and fans and radio programmers alike are taking notice.

 

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