tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406035242389738288.post-91186126283340558172007-04-19T08:42:00.000-07:002007-04-19T08:32:40.166-07:00Gospel Music History Trivia1) What gospel artist made his/her national debut with the song<br />2) Who is the composer of “Lord, Don’t Move the Mountain”?<br />3) What gospel group met on the campus of Bethune-Cookman College in the 1990s and formed their group following that chance encounter?<br />4) What artist was known as the Songbird of Texas in the 1950s?<br />5) What gospel artist pastors the New bethel COGIC in Toledo, OH?<br />6) Who formed the Gospel Caravans group in 1947?<br />7) Who filled in for Dorothy Love Coates in the Gospel Harmonettes when Coates was pregnant?<br />8) What gospel artist says that he was influenced to sing gospel after hearing Commissioned’s “Running Back to You”?<br />9) Who was the featured vocalist on Donald Vails & the Choraleers’ “He Decided to Die”?<br />10) What group is nicknamed the Sweet Sisters of Zion?<br />11) What gospel legend was once the sales manager at the Clara Ward Singers’ Philadelphia record store?<br />12) The Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church Choir’s 1973 hit “I’ll Make it Alright” was based on what pop song?<br />13) What gospel group recorded the Rollingstones’ “Salt of the Earth” at the group’s request?<br />14) Who is the first gospel artist to hit #1 on the Radio &amp; records’ smooth jazz chart?<br />15) What artist attended the Snow Hill Institute in Bessemer, AL?<br />16) What platinum-selling gospel artist once sang with Benny Cummings?<br />17) What gospel legend played percussion on Motown songs such as the Jackson 5’s “ABC” and Diana Ross’ “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”?<br />18) What gospel group performed “The Wicked Shall Cease Their Troubling” at Radio City Music hall in 1971?<br />19) What gospel artist wrote the blues song “Tight like That”?<br />20) Rev. James Cleveland officiated at the wedding of what singer who was once a Sam Cooke protégé?<br />21) What does the QC in the Spiritual QCs stand for?<br />22) Who was first cited as the godfather of Christian rap?<br />23) Fred Hammond produced the debut cd of what Christian rap group in 1990?<br />24) What quartet singer was nicknamed”Pretty Boy” in the 1950s?<br />25) What specific gospel quartet had a musical influence on James Brown?<br />26) What gospel group’s name was inspired by Charles Lindburgh’s plane?<br />27) Who was the first female to record a gospel song?<br />28) What gospel artist began her career with the Lockhart Singers?<br />29) The Paramounts trasnformed into what group?<br />30) What gospel popularized “Royal telephone” and “Stop Playing Numbers and Pray.”<br />31) Who was the first black gospel group to perform at the D.A.R. Constitution Hall?<br />32) What artist was caregiver to a preacher’s sick wife, then married the preacher after the wife died and set off a church scandal?<br />33) What gospel artist hailed from the Polk Street COGIC Choir?<br />34) Who first introduced the song “I Wn’t Complain”?<br />35) Madame Artelia Hutchins’ performance at the 1926 Baptist Convention provoked what artist to abandon a classical music career for a gospel career?<br />36) What is the best-selling black gospel recording of all time? Edwin Hawkins’ “Oh, Happy Day.”<br /><br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.uncloudydays.com/history-of-gospel-music-trivia.html">Click Here to search for the answers</A>Bynes Gospel Musicnoreply@blogger.com