THE DRINKARD SINGERS A Joyful Noise W/CISSY HOUSTON RARE 50'S LP ??????

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  THE DRINKARD SINGERS A Joyful Noise W/CISSY HOUSTON





A MINT MINUS/VG++ ORIGINAL LP ON RCA VICTOR LPM 1856

FROM 1958-1959 A MONO DEEP GROOVE PRESSING

RECORDED IN NEW YORK CITY AT WEBSTER HALL IN APRIL OF 1958

WITH CISSY HOUSTON AND JUDY CLAY

WITH THE ORIGINAL RCA INNER FOR 1959 IN COLOR AS SHOWN

12 TRACKS INCLUDE MY ROCK, USE ME LORD, RISE SHINE, ONE DAY, LISTEN TO THE LAMBS, AFTER IT'S ALL OVER, SOMEBODY TOUCHED ME, WADE IN THE WATER, JUST A LITTLE WHILE TO STAY HERE, SINGING IN MY SOUL, RING THOSE GOLDEN BELLS, SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER

COVER STOCK WITH RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. TOP RIGHT EDGE SPLIT ABOUT TWO INCHES. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

SPINDLE HOLE WITH SOME LIGHT RUB MARKS. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEARS UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS AND OR SURFACE PAPER SLEEVE CONTACT IMPRESSIONS. SIDE TWO WITH A FAINT RUB SCUFF MARK ACROSS THE 3RD TRACK IN THE 12 POSITION. WE'VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP ON A PROFESSIONAL SOUND SYSTEM WITH A VPI TURNTABLE WITH A GRADO REFERENCE 1 WOOD CARTRIDGE AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL PLAY WITHOUT NOTICE OF THE ABOVE AND SOUNDING QUITE FINE HERE. CLEAR, PRESENT AND VIBRANT THROUGHOUT.

RARELY SEEN LP WHICH NOW FETCHES 100 PLUS WHEN SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY
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⁂PLEASE NOTE THE VINYL DESCRIPTION IS ONLY A VISUAL INSPECTION UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED. HERE IS A FEW WORDS ABOUT MY GRADING SYSTEM AND IS IN ADDITION TO ANYTHING WRITTEN ABOVE AND SUPERSEDES ANY OTHER GRADING SYSTEM, INCLUDING GOLDMINE: ALL RECORDS ARE VISUALLY GRADED AND THE RED GRADE ABOVE REFERS ONLY TO THE STATE OF VINYL......YOU PLAY THE VINYL AND NOT THE COVER....COVER IS NOTED SEPARATELY. IF I'VE TEST PLAYED THE LP IT WILL BE NOTED. MINT INDICATES PRISTINE VINYL WITHOUT ANY MARKS ON THE VINYL BLANK. MINT MINUS MAY CONTAIN A FEW VERY LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS FROM HANDLING & SLEEVE WEAR OR A FEW PLAYS. IF YOU ARE A REAL VINYL AFICIONADO AND COLLECTOR YOU'LL KNOW THAT EVEN A FACTORY SEALED LP OCCASIONALLY HAS SOME LIGHT RUB OR SLEEVE MARKS FROM TRANSPORT AND SHELVING. ANYTHING IN THE VG CATEGORY WOULD CONTAIN SOME LIGHT AND FINE SURFACE PLAY LINES AND EVIDENCE OF PLAY WEAR THAT IS EASILY SEEN. SELDOM IS ANYTHING OFFERED IN THE "G" STATE.

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
biography by Craig Harris
Emily Drinkard, later known as Cissy Houston, was only five years old when she joined her sister, Anne, and brothers, Nicholas and Larry, in a family gospel group, the Drinkard Four. Another sister, Lee, who served as the group's manager, later became the mother of soulful pop vocalist, Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick. Expanding with the addition of vocalists, Ann Moss and Marie Epps, the group was renamed, the Drinkard Singers. Performing regularly at the New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, they recorded several singles for the Savoy, Chess and Verve labels and a live album, A Joyful Noise, for RCA. They became the first gospel group to sing with Mahalia Jackson when they appeared at the National Baptist Convention in the early-1950s. After stirring the crowd at the Newport Jazz Festival, in 1957, with their devotional harmonies, they became the first gospel group signed by RCA.The driving inspiration behind the Drinkard Singers was the four original singer's father, Nitch Drinkard, a Newark factory worker, who with their mother, Delia, raised eight children. In a late-1990s interview, Emily "Cissy" Drinkard recalled, "To my father, gospel singing was a ministry, there was a message in the music. He saw us as junior ambassadors -- not just sowing the gospel but also reaping the blessing of singing God's word in our own lives."Although she formed a new group, the Drinkard Ensemble, in the late-1950s, and served as an inspiration for Alex Bradford's play, Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God, Anne Drinkard shifted her focus from the concert stage and recording studio to a ministry of music. A high school student when she married Felix Moss, in 1946, she was replaced by Judy Guirons, later known as Judy Clay, who had been adopted by Lee Drinkard in her teens.

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