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Taylor in 1967. Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, United States. [5] He grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas, performing in gospel groups as a youngster.As an adult, he had one release, "Somewhere to Lay My Head", on Chicago's Vee Jay Records label in the 1950s, as part of the gospel group The Highway Q.C.'s, which included a young Sam Cooke. [5]
Mr. Dorsey can be seen telling this story in the 1982 gospel music documentary Say Amen, Somebody.) The earliest known recording was made on February 16, 1937, by the "Heavenly Gospel Singers" (Bluebird B6846). [7] "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" was first published in 1938. [8] "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" is published in more than 40 languages ...
Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and Christian evangelist influential in the development of early blues and 20th-century gospel music. He penned 3,000 songs, a third of them gospel, including "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley". Recordings of these sold millions of ...
Little Johnny Taylor (born Johnny Lamont Merrett; February 11, 1943 – May 17, 2002) [1] was an American blues and soul singer. He made recordings throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and continued public performances through the 1980s and 1990s.
The song was translated into several languages. An early translation into English was made by Herman H. Brueckner as "Take Thou my hand, o Father". [12] Elmer Leon Jorgenson translated it to "Take Thou My Hand, and Lead Me", published in Great Songs of the Church in 1921. [13]
In Canada the song reached #2. [11] It was the first gospel song to hit #1 on a U.S. pop singles chart; The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970, "Put Your Hand in the Hand (of the Man)" by Ocean peaked at #2 in 1971; and "Oh Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers reached #3 in 1969.
Released as a single in the summer of 1973, "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)" was one of the biggest hits of Taylor's career, holding the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles Chart for two weeks, reaching the #11 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, [3] and #35 in Canada.
The Kitty Wells Family Gospel Sing is a gospel music album recorded by Kitty Wells and released in 1965 on the Decca label (DL 4679). [1] Thom Owens of Allmusic called it "a good, but unremarkable, country gospel LP."