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Eloise Gaffney, Oral History
Eloise Gaffney (b.Sept 21, 1948). A marvelous singer and choir director, Eloise Gaffney joined Fred Shuttlesworth's movement - the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in the early 1960's at 14 years of age - and, over time became the Choir…
Don Solomon and Norman B. Wooding Jr., Oral History
Don Solomon and Norman B Wooding, Jr, two pioneer Jefferson County gospel singers and, most recently, members of the Pillars of Birmingham, reminisce on the days of quartet concerts in Birmingham, including group members. The conversation took…
Roscoe Robinson, Oral History
Roscoe Robinson (b. May 22, 1928) Roscoe Robinson, sometimes called "Scoe" is continuing to sing and record at 92. Born in Dermott, Arkansas to a musical family, Robinson's father was a minister and his mother sang spirituals and he had sisters, one…
Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore, Oral History
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore - (b. Nov 8, 1913, d. May 19, 2004). Starting his career on the air at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas, his home town, in the 1930's, Moore was a major blues singer in the 1930’s and 40's and a prolific recording artist and…
Sam Frazier Jr., Oral History
Sam Frazier, Jr. (b. Aug 12, 1943) a Birmingham singer who sang the blues, RnB, gospel and country, whose career spans recording in NYC, Birmingham and Los Angeles, Sam came up in the Edgewater neighborhood of Birmingham, played a blues harp and…
Programs, WJLD Gospel Caravan
Box 8 Folder 34: "Ok, we’re moving along to folder 34. Did I… oh, ok. Folder 34 is from WJLD September 18th and October 16th in 1985. Little folders. The September 18th one announces a Good Gospel Music Caravan at the Abyssinia Missionary Baptist…
Business Card, Rev. Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore
Box 6 Folder 2: "Ok, we’re redoing box 6, folder…. So we’re on box 6, folder 2, which contains a business card from Reverend Dwight Gatemouth Moore, who, of course, was a great blues singer and gospel singer and who worked at WEDR and WJLD over the…
Willie McKinstry, WJLD
Box 5 Folder 9: "This is folder 9 and, again from ’67, Willie McKinstry striking a pose. WJLD. The only radio station he was ever at, (except for a 1939 stint at WHMA, Anniston) ...again from the Chris McNair Studios. As with a few of the pioneers, I…
Promo, "The Little Rev." Howard Scott
Box 4 Folder 15: "Folder 15 is a head shot and promo piece for Little Howard Scott, a gospel announcer at WJLD. His program predated Leciel Hubbard's Ministry Outreach Broadcast, so shared Gary Richardson of WJLD. Scott's obituary segment on Al.com…
Ensley Jubilee Singers
Box 4 Folder 2: "Box 4 folder 2 is a copy of a photo of the Ensley Jubilees, a local gospel quartet, including a second sheet that describes who’s who in the picture, from about 1960. Copied from Doug Seroff’s pamphlet."