Pilgrim Travelers: Gospel Boogie - Rare Recordings 1946-1957

Pilgrim Travelers: Gospel Boogie - Rare Recordings 1946-1957 - COMPACT DISCS

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Gospel Boogie - Rare Recordings 1946-1957

Artist:

Pilgrim Travelers

Label:

Gospel Friend

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

7392048715101

Genre:

Gospel

Release Date:

2016-01-15

Number of Discs:

1

27 track collection by the Los Angeles gospel group. The Pilgrim Travelers - along with the Soul Stirrers and the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - were the hardest-working, best-dressed, farthest-traveling and most recorded male quartet on the gospel highway. During an intense period of eight years (ca 1947-1954), they kept the same personnel and built a national career. With their magnificent voices, artful arrangements and outstanding showmanship, the group won acclaim and fame by singing with a fervor and power hardly heard before in gospel history. They were the first quartet to perform at New York's Apollo Theater in 1953. Singer, taent scout and A&R man at Specialty Records, J.W. Alexander, who later became Same Cooke's mentor, described the Pilgrim Travelers' lead singer Kylo Turner: He had the looks, he had the voice, he had it all.

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