DoveSong Website Project
The MP3 Library:

Gospel Music Section

The gospel section of the MP3 library went online in 2001 with a very rare and important selection of music. The recordings are out-of-print recordings of the most important works of the genre, those described in historical books on the subject. These recordings, except for those made available by Austria's pioneering musicologist, Johnny Parth, were not commercially available, most never having been recorded on CD, and the library immediately became very popular with those seeking the music, some for over 20 years. 

The MP3 files were created by the DoveSong.com from original recordings, the earlier music from 78 RPM records and the later music from 45RPM and LP records.

We have received an enthusiastic response to our making these very important records available after an absences of, in some cases, 60 and 70 years.

Black Gospel Music

An important music, we concentrate on the traditional, the root and heart of the music that is so little known today and not available. No CDs, etc. DoveSong has been brining it back, with mail from people all over the Us and in Europe. We have truly made an effect. Expansion will be this.

Eventually, DoveSong would like to have sections representing the work of the following artists. A brief description of the group or singer would be included on each page:

Quartets: The Alphabetical Four
               The Angelic Gospel Singers
               The Bessemer Sunset Four
               The Bibletone Jubilee Singers
               The Birmingham Jubilee Singers
               The Brooklyn All-Stars
               The Canton Spirituals
               The Dixie Hummingbirds
               The Dunham Jubilee Singers
               The Elkins-Payne Jubilee Singers
               The Fairfield Four
               The Famous Blue Jay Singers
               The Five Blind Boys of Alabama (Happyland Singers)
               The Five Blind Boys Mississippi (Jackson Harmoneers)
               The Five Trumpets
               The Golden Gate Quartet
               The Golden Leaf Quartet
               The Harmonizing Four
               The Heavenly Gospel Singers
               The Kings of Harmony of Alabama
               The Norfolk Jubilee Singers
               The Pace Jubilee Singers
                   The Paramount Jubilee Singers
               The Silver Leaf Quartet
                   The Southern Sons
                   The Selah Jubilee Singers
                   The Sensational Nightingales
               The Soul Stirrers
               The Southern Wonder Quartet
               The Spirit of Memphis Quartet
               The Swan Silvertone Singers
               The Trumpeteers
               The Taskiana Four

Singers: Robert Anderson
            Inez Andrews
            Alex Bradford
            James Cleveland
            Edna Galmon Cooke
            Thomas A. Dorsey
            Arazona Dranes
            Georgia Peach
            Prof. Earle Hines
            Mahalia Jackson
            Joe May
            Cleophus Robinson
            Willie May Ford Smith
            Utah Smith
            Rosetta Tharp
            Albertina Walker
            Ernestine Washington

Groups: The Brewsteraires
            The Barrett Sisters
            The Caravans
            The Clara Ward Singers
            The Coleman Brothers
            The Davis Sisters
            The Gospel Harmonettes
            The Meditation Singers
            The O'Neil Twins
            The Roberta Martin Singers
            The Sally Martin Singers

Spirituals: The Fisk Jubilee Singers
                The Tuskegee Institute Singers
                Wings Over Jordan

Southern Gospel Music

An important music, we are interested in the early recordings. We already have an important selection of recordings on the site. Vaughan. The stamps recordings have been downloaded by the current members of the Stamps family. Other groups we have, john Daniels, etc. But we have provided no information on Southern Gospel in the text library.

Hopefully volunteers. Sacred Harp

Quartets: Blackwood Brothers Quartet
              Blue Ridge Quartet
              Cavaleers Quartet
              Crossroads Quartet
              Crusaders Quartet
              The Daniel Family and John Daniel Quartet
              The Harmoneers
              The Homeland Harmony Quartet
              The Oakridge Quartet
              The Rangers Quartet
              The Stamps Quartet
              The Stamps-Baxter Quartet
              Other Stamps Quartets
              The Statesmen
              The Sunshine Boys
              The Swanee River Boys
              The Vaughan Quartet

Singers: Jimmie Davis
             Stuart Hamblen

Groups: The Chuck Wagon Gang
            The Johnson Family
            The LeFevres
            The Spear Family       

Mountain and Bluegrass Gospel Music

This section will continue to grow with the addition of a number of old 78s by various people and groups.

Roy Acuff
The Carter Family
Wilma Lee and Stony Cooper
Wade and J.E. Mainer
Masters Family
Bill Monroe
The Stanley Brothers
Carl Story
Ernest Stoneman
Claude Ely
Regular Baptist singing
sanctified church singing