Archives Collection

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BESSEMER [ALABAMA] BLACK GOSPEL QUARTETS                 89-064
AUDIO TAPES

Physical description:

7 analog cassette audio tapes (TCA-0091A/G)

Dates:

7-8 October 1989

RESTRICTIONS;

Copying requires permission of the Center director or audio archivist.

Provenance:

Recorded by Bruce Nemerov, audio archivist of the Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University.

Scope and Content:

Audio tapes (TCA-0091A/B) of rehearsal of Four Eagles (James MacWilliams, Elorzia Coleman, Dell Coleman, Joe Watson, John Lawrence and John Petty) recorded at home of John Lawrence, Birmingham, Alabama 8 October 1989 and of Birmingham Sunlights (Barry Taylor, Steve Taylor, James Alexander, Rickey Spates and Eddie Washington) recorded at the home of Barry Taylor, Birmingham, Alabama 7 October 1989. Includes brief discussion of P.L. Duncan and the Princely Players with gospel music researcher Doug Seroff.

Audio tape (TCA-0091C) of radio program by the Four Eagles broadcast over WENN, Birmingham, Alabama 8 October 1989. Audio tapes of performance 8 October 1989 at AFL-CIO hall, Bessemer, Alabama by Four Eagles, Shelby County Big Four, Sterling Jubilee Singers, Delta-aires, Silver Queens, the Fairfield Four and the Birmingham Sunlights. Includes invocation and exhortation by Deacon Walter Sanders; presentation of the key to the city to the Fairfield Four; and comments by the Birmingham Sunlights on their African tour. Audio tape logs, including a list of all songs performed, made by audio archivist Bruce Nemerov follow.

Location:

Tapes filed by tape number with other audio visual archival materials.

Related materials:

For earlier performances by these two groups see STERLING JUBILEE SINGERS/BIRMINGHAM SUNLIGHTS AUDIO TAPES AND TRANSCRIPT (89-034.)