Old Time Rock & Roll. All Because of Your Love.

George Jackson, who wrote or helped write hundreds of rock, soul and rhythm-and-blues songs, including the Bob Seger hit Old Time Rock and Roll, died on Sunday at his home in Ridgeland, Miss. a suburb of Jackson.

Spirituals" redirects here. For the David Murray album, see Spirituals (album). For the medieval Franciscan sect, see Fraticelli. Musicologist George Pullen Jackson extended the term "spiritual" to a wider range of folk hymnody, as in his 1938 book, White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, but this does not appear to have been widespread usage previously. The term, however, has often been broadened to include subsequent arrangements into more standard European-American hymnodic styles, and to include post-emancipation songs with stylistic similarities to the original African American spirituals. Syncopation, or ragged time, was a natural part of spiritual music. The rhythms of Protestant hymns were transformed and the songs were played on African-inspired instruments. During the Civil War, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote down some of the spirituals he heard in camp. Almost all their songs were thoroughly religious in their tone,. and were in a minor key, both as to words and music.

Spirituals is an album by David Murray released on the Japanese DIW label in 1988. It features seven quartet performances by Murray with Fred Hopkins, Dave Burrell and Ralph Peterson J. .

Mahalia Jackson, a singer with one of the finest voices in this history of gospel music, did full justice to this joyous spiritual from 1927. Her moving version even reached the 1958 Billboard charts, a strong showing for a gospel single at the time when Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis were dominating the rankings. You could fill a whole list of the best gospel songs just with Mahalia Jackson’s music, so a special mention also goes for her 1958 version of ‘Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho’, sung with such feeling and gusto. Marian Anderson: ‘Move On Up A Little Higher’. Among the range of fine songs on the album is the gorgeous ‘I’d Rather Have Jesus’, written by the gospel star George Beverly Shea. Shea appeared live in front of hundreds of millions of people in his career as a singer with preacher Billy Graham. Etta James: ‘Give Me That Old Time Religion’. This traditional gospel song from 1873 is thought to have its roots in English folk music. It has proved popular with country music singers – Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle and Charlie Rich have covered it – but perhaps the pick is a vibrant version by Etta James.

Go to artist profile. I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song. Mahalia Jackson, The Falls-Jones Ensemble.

album: Blood Of The Lamb: Old Time Spirituals. Herb Lance - Blood Of The Lamb: Old Time Spirituals. album: Blood Of The Lamb: Old Time Spirituals. The Dixiaries - Blood Of The Lamb: Old Time Spirituals. Ricky Nelson - Glory Train. album: Ricky Sings Spirituals. African Tribal Drums - Finding the Harmony. album: African American Spirituals - Tribal Drums & Chants. Joel Cohen, The Boston Camerata - Whittaker : In Yonder Valley. Christopher Parkening - Three Spirituals: Jesus, We Want To Meet. album: Simple Gifts (Sacred Music For Guitar). Bridget Bazile, Derek Lee Ragin, Moses Hogan, Moses Hogan Singers - He's got the Whole World in His Hands. album: Negro Spirituals. Julius Drake, Ken Burton, London Adventist Chorale, Ruby Philogene - Let my people go. album: Steal Away - Spirituals and Gospel Songs. Cyrus Chestnut - Holy, Holy, Holy. album: Blessed Quietness: A Collection Of Hymns, Spirituals And Carols.