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{SPEAKER name="WIGGINS"}
-- there's also an excellent book which has been done on Charles Albert Tinley. It's called Charles Albert Tinley [Tindley], The Prince of Preachers. It was published by Abingdon Press and it was done by a member of the church.

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His name escapes me now but you could do it just with the title and you can get the book in that particular way. There are records of galore.

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Tony Halpert when he did the gospel sound book there is a companion four volume LP, which is a sampler, and it has the old re-releases of these old artists on it with their particular hits.

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So you might want to look that up or you can simply get the contemporary sound. This group by the way, has produced at least three 45 records. Pastor Mills has said that they are in the process of getting their LP - their first LP together.

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They have toured Europe, they have been to France, Sweden, Norway, and Germany. But this is basically what you are going to hear as you see they perhaps the barbecue was much better than I thought it was going to be, and as I said before I will not sing for you,

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-but are there any questions that I can perhaps answer or any observations that those of you who have heard them, ideas and questions that you have about black gospel music itself?

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Okay, just keep eating that watermelon and hopefully by 1:30 the steppers will have gotten out of their barbecue thing.

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I am Dr. William Wiggins I am from Indiana University I teach folklore and religion in the department of Afro American Studies at Indiana. And I am counting the days until I can take a bath.