Peace Be Still-Soul Stirrers

Gospel classics are songs that are special, they've been around for a long time. We all know them word for word; love them, they have a special meaning in our lives, and they will never be forgotten.
The song-Master The Tempest Raging aka Peace Be Still, was written by Mary Ann Baker 1831 - 1921. Author Mary Ann Baker was a Sunday School teacher at the Second Baptist Church in Chicago. She was also active in the temperance movement. She wrote a number of temperance songs and hymns. Her inspiration for this song comes from St. Mark 4:37-39. This song was published in a hymnbook and later "re-discovered" when President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. In 1963 James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir recorded Peace Be Still, which became one of his all time top grossing albums.
The group-The Soul Stirrers was formed by Roy Crain, who had launched his first quartet, which sang in a jubilee style, in 1926 in Trinity, Texas. Among the members of that group was R. H. Harris, who soon became its musical leader. Robert Harris, also from Trinity, Texas, brought several changes to the Soul Stirrers that affected gospel quartet singing generally. He used a falsetto style that had its antecedents in African music, but which was new to the popular jubilee singing style of the time. He pioneered the "swing lead", in which two singers would share the job of leading the song, allowing virtuoso singers to increase the emotional intensity of the song as the lead passed between them without disturbing the four part harmony. That innovation led the Soul Stirrers, while still called a quartet, to acquire five members. Over the years some notable's have passed through the Soul Stirrers; Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Johnnie Taylor, Paul Foster, and Julius Cheeks.
Very few entertainers can lay claim to having a 80 year history, being inducted-twice-into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame and having an entire genre of music named after them, but the Soul Stirrers can! The Soul Stirrers were inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, actually being recognized for a second time as they were acknowledged when the Rock Hall inducted Sam Cooke in 1986.
This rendering is by the Soul Stirrers from a 1967 album titled "The Golden Gospel," with accompaniment by the Harold Smith Majestic Choir of Detroit.
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[@keiththomas3790]

i will never tire of this song..praise the Most High

[@go2yourself]

2024 still a favorite...yes Sir! 🙌🏾👍🏾🥰

[@feliciaeaton9783]

A good day to reflect

[@IUSECAMERAS]

thats my DAD at the bottom left with the shades on! i miss you DAD! R.I.P.

[@ernestfoster6715]

Ernest B,Fosteer

[@ernestfoster6715]

Yes

[@derrickboomer8531]

💜

[@robertchatman5898]

Now , this is martin jacox. I,m so glad I got to meet Willie rogers, martin jacox, j j Farley, Eddie Huffman, and a few others, but I sure wish I could have met the greatest of them all, the great Sam Cooke.

[@g5broke]

That's SONNY! I'm MUST say......He DID look the COOLEST amongst the CREW. The MAN next to him is my uncle.....WILLIE RODGERS.

[@timwillias82]

Sing Jacox

[@weotalks2810]

JJ FARLEY IS A GOOD BASS SINGER,unfortunately he was back there with JIMMY JONES,ELLIS JOHNSON, BOBO. ANd FREEMAN of FAIRFIELD4..RIP