SISTER ROSETTA THARPE / MARIE KNIGHT 78 " DIDN'T IT RAIN " BRUNSWICK 04851 EX+

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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CLASSIC GOSPEL 78 FROM SISTER ROSETTA THARPE AND MARIE KNIGHT

IF YOU THINK YOU DON'T LIKE GOSPEL MUSIC - THIS'LL CHANGE YOUR MIND!!

DIDN'T IT RAIN

Born Rosetta Nubin in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, she began performing at age four, billed as "Little Rosetta Nubin, the singing and guitar playing miracle", accompanying her mother, Church of God in Christ (COGIC) evangelist Katie Bell Nubin, who played mandolin and preached at tent revivals throughout the South. Exposed to both blues and jazz both in the South and after her family moved to Chicago in the late 1920s, she played blues and jazz in private, while performing gospel music in public settings. Her unique style reflected those secular influences: she bent notes the way that jazz artists did and picked guitar like Memphis Minnie.

Rosetta also crossed over to secular music in other ways. After marrying COGIC preacher Thomas Thorpe (from which "Tharpe" is a misspelling) in 1934 and moving to New York City, she recorded four sides with Decca Records backed by "Lucky" Millinder's jazz orchestra. Her records caused an immediate furor: many churchgoers were shocked by the mixture of sacred and secular music, but secular audiences loved them. Appearances in John Hammond's 1938 extravaganza "From Spirituals To Swing", at the Cotton Club and Café Society and with Cab Calloway and Benny Goodman made her even more popular. Songs like "This Train" and "Rock Me", which combined gospel themes with bouncy up-tempo arrangements, became smash hits among audiences with little previous exposure to gospel music.

AFTER THARPE started her solo career in 1938, her popularity soared, even through the height of World War II. In '46, she joined her voice with Knight, originally a sanctified shouter from Newark, N.J. Later billed as "Madame Marie Knight," Knight's lower-registered contralto was the perfect vocal foil to Tharpe's higher voice. Together, they sang such memorable songs as "Up Above My Head," "Precious Memories" and "Didn't It Rain," which Knight reprised on the tribute album with the same down-home spirit as her late singing partner's.

ANOTHER ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREAT ROCKING GOSPEL NUMBERS!

DIDN'T IT RAIN   Didn't it rain children, rain oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't, Didn't, oh my Lord Didn't it rain

Didn't it rain children,  talk about rain oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't it, Didn't it, oh my Lord Didn't it rain

Rain, rain, oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't it, Didn't it, oh my Lord Didn't it rain

When you read in the Good Book you'll understand
Why Noah lived as a righteous man
The Lord called Noah and gave him a plan
Said: "Build me an ark at my command"
Just listen how it's raining, all day, all night
Water rising in the east, water rising in the west
Men groaning in the north, some moaning in the south
All day, all night oh oh oh oooo
Just listen how it's raining all day all night

Didn't it rain, talk about rain oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't it, Didn't it, oh my Lord Didn't it rain

Rain, rain oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't it, Didn't it, oh my Lord Didn't it rain

Then the Lord told Noah take 'em two by two
The ox and the fox an the kangaroo
The wicked man if he don't repent
Leave 'em there until my judgment

Just listen how it's raining all day all night
Water rising in the east, water rising in the west
Men groaning in the north, men moaning in the south
All day all night, well well well well well well well well
Let me hear you groan some tune
Let me hear you moan some children
All day, all night,
Water rising in the east, water rising in the west
Men groaning in the north, some moaning in the south
All day, all night
Didn't it rain, talk about rain oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't it, Didn't it, oh my Lord Didn't it rain

Rain, rain oh my Lord
Didn't it, Didn't it, Didn't it, oh my Lord Didn't it rain.

 

ABOUT THIS RECORD:- 

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE AND MARIE KNIGHT with the Sam Price Trio 

UK  BRUNSWICK 04851  10" 78RPM shellac

A SIDE:-   DIDN'T IT RAIN   

B SIDE:-   TWO LITTLE FISHES AND FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD

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