Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
| The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Gospel |
| founding | 1936 |
| Current occupation | |
all singing |
Willmer Broadnax |
| Roscoe Robinson | |
Founding member |
Lawrence Abrams |
Founding member |
Archie Brownlee |
| JT Clinkscales | |
| Rev. Sammy Lewis | |
| Rev. Percell Perkins | |
| Rev. George W. Warren | |
Founding member |
Lloyd Woodard |
Founding member |
Joseph Ford |
| Tiny Powell | |
| Henry Johnson | |
| Melvin Henderson | |
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi were an American gospel group . With the single Our Father they reached in the early 1950s as one of the first Gospel formations Billboard - R & B -charts. Her singing style not only influenced numerous other gospel groups, but also secular musicians such as Ray Charles .
history
The formation began as a student group in 1936 at the Piney Woods School for the Blind near Jackson, Mississippi . Archie Brownlee, Joseph Ford, Lawrence Abrams, and Lloyd Woodard sang both spiritual and secular songs to raise money for the school. On March 9, 1937, they recorded religious and secular songs under the name The Cotton Blossom Singers for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress .
They went to Chicago in the mid-1940s and changed their name to Five Blind Boys of Mississippi. After Reverend Percell Perkins joined the group, the most successful period began. Rev. Perkins, who was not blind, also became the group manager. In 1946 they recorded their first record for Excelsior and in 1950 for Peacock Our Father.
By the end of the 1960s, 27 singles and five albums had been released by Peacock. They recorded new albums until the late 1980s and toured until the 1990s. The last founding member died in 1999.
Discography
- 1952 Soon I'll Be Done, Chess
- 1959 The Original Five Blind Boys, Vee-Jay
- 1960 I'll Go, Checker Records
- 1965 Father I Stretch My Hands to Thee, Peacock Gospel Classics
- 1969 Will Jesus Be Waiting, MCA Records
- 1974 Precious Memories, MCA Records
- 1979 The Tide of Life, Fuel 2000 Records
- 1987 In the Hands of the Lord, Universal Special Products
- 1992 Mississippi Versus Alabama, P-Vine Records
- 1993 Counting on Jesus, Soul Potion
- 1994 I'll Make It Alright, Jewel
- 1996 Meet the Blind Boys, Jewel
- 1998 In Concert Live in Europe, Munich Records
- 1999 Talking to Jesus, Grammercy Records
- 2000 Live from Europe, Gospel Jubilee (also as DVD 2000)
- 2001 The Kings of Gospel, Music Schubert Records
- 2007 Not Gonna Shut Up, Melendo