GOSPEL SONGS

Following is a list of oustanding EMI-published Gospel & Spiritual Songs together with the names of artists who memorably recorded them:

ADDICTIVE LOVE (Winans/Winans/Thomas) by BeBe & CeCe Winans

GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN (Holiday) by The Staple Singers

GOD IS LOVE (Gaye/Stover/Nyx) by Marvin Gaye

GOD MADE LOVE (Linde/Macrae/McDaniel) by Mel McDaniel

HAVE A TALK WITH GOD (Wonder/Hardaway) by Stevie Wonder
and by The Dixie Hummingbirds

HEAVEN HELP US ALL (Miller) by Stevie Wonder and by Ray Charles
and by Joan Baez

HELP ME (Gatlin) by Elvis Presley

THE HOLY BIBLE (Frederick/Mellin) by Mahalia Jackson

I BELIEVE (Pence/Sloan/Senatore) by The Sounds Of Blackness

I HAD A TALK WITH GOD (Cleveland) by Reverend James Cleveland & The Angelic Choir

I KNOW WHERE I STAND (Jam/Lewis/Steele/White) by Johnny Gill

I NEED YOU (Matkosky/Lacy) by LeAnn Rimes

I PRAISE AND WORSHIP YOU FATHER (Robinson) by Smokey Robinson

I STOOD ON THE BANKS OF JORDAN (Cleveland)

I'LL KEEP MY LIGHT IN MY WINDOW (McFaddin/Caston) by Shirley Caesar

IN THE MORNING (Atkins/Atkins/Campbell/Campbell) by Mary Mary

JESUS IS LOVE (Richie) by Dorothy Moore

MARY DON'T YOU WEEP (Andrews) by The Swan Silvertones

MILKY WHITE WAY (Johnson's Trumpeteers) by The Trumpeteers

NO CROSS, NO CROWN (Cleveland) by Vickie Winans

OH HAPPY DAY (Hawkins) by The Edwin Hawkins Singers

OPEN MY HEART (Jam/Lewis/Adams/Wright) by Yolanda Adams

PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND (MacLellan) by Shirley Caesar and
by Anne Murray and by The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama

RIGHT AWAY (Harvey/Winans) by BeBe & CeCe Winans

SATAN IS REAL (Louvin/Louvin) by The Louvin Brothers

SHACKLES (PRAISE YOU) (Atkins/Atkins/Campbell) by Mary Mary

STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN EVERY DAY (Tharpe) by Johnny Cash

TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE (Edwin Hawkins) by The Edwin Hawkins Singers

TOUCH ME LORD JESUS (Campbell/Williams) by The Angelic Gospel Singers

WAY UP ON THE MOUNTAIN (Louvin/Young) by The Louvin Brothers

WHEN THE SUN COMES SHINING THROUGH (THE LADDER) (D'Abo) by LaBelle

WHO DO THEY THINK HE WAS (Leigh/McManus) by Conway Twitty

WHOLY HOLY (Gaye/Cleveland/Benson) by Aretha Franklin

WHY ME (LORD) (Kristofferson) by Kris Kristofferson and by Johnny Cash

Various secular songs such as Ashford & Simpson's REACH OUT AND TOUCH (SOMEBODY'S HAND) have been memorably recorded by gospel & spiritual artists; other examples include Abba's I HAVE A DREAM by Cristy Lane, Carole King's YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND by Aretha Franklin and Jackie DeShannon's PUT A LITTLE LOVE IN YOUR HEART by Al Green. Some have undergone lyric changes in their titles as with The Reverend James Cleveland's I HAD A TALK WITH GOD which became the 1964 R&B hit I HAD A TALK WITH MY MAN by Mitty Collier.

ROCK ON !
Alan Warner

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