Led by Edwin Newberry, the always innovative Newberry Singers sound like no other gospel group on their own composition, “Trouble Will Soon Be Over.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Newberry Singers

The incomparable Sarah Vaughan recorded a handful of spirituals during her long career, including this gentle version of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Sarah Vaughan

The Patterson Singers’ “I’m Moving Up” features an irresistibly up tempo closing gospel vamp.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Patterson Singers

In there more than 70 years together, the Swanee Quintet released a host of great gospel songs, including this one - “The Lord’s on My Side.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Swanee Quintet

The legendary Dorothy Love Coates was one of the true stars of gospel music and her powerful “99 ½ Won’t Do” was adopted as a freedom song during the civil rights movement.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Harmonettes

The Rev. Morgan Babb’s passionate version of “Lord, You’ve Been Good to Me” spontaneously emerges from the altar call during one of his legendary sermons.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Rev. Morgan Babb

The otherwise unknown Singing Corinthians deliver an impassioned version of the old spiritual, “The Lord Will Provide.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Singing Corinthians

The Blend Wright Trio were a poppy, upbeat gospel group led by the multi-talented Eleanor Wright, who recorded for Savoy in the 1960s.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Blend Wright Trio

The Bible Way Church of God Choir’s “What Do You Say About Jesus?” features the church’s longtime pastor, Little Abraham Swanson.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Bible Way Church of God

The LP Believe in Me by the Melody Kings features a rousing version of Lee Wallace’s gospel rave up, “I Pray.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Melody Kings

The Kindly Shepherds’ “Lend Me Your Hand,” produced by Monk Higgins, is much coveted by Northern Soul vinyl collectors.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Kindly Sheperds

Willie Banks’ titanic sermon song “Things I Can’t Change” features one of the most powerful vocal performances in gospel music.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Willie Banks

“Leaning on the Lord” is an incredibly infectious gospel rave up by the otherwise unknown Heavenly Stars of Milwaukee.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Heavenly Stars of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The St. James A.M.E. Youth Choir dedicates “I Don’t Know Why He Loves Me” to their beloved pastor, Bishop John D. Bright Sr.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Bishop John D. Bright Sr and the Choirs of the St. James A.M.E.

Prepare to be moved by Gwen Curtis’ impassioned vocals on this titanic version of John Stallings’ “Learning to Lean.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Gwen Carter

The Rev. Oris Mays was one of the true originals of the incomparable gospel music scene in Memphis.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Rev. Oris Mays

One of the earliest jubilee groups to record, the Selah Jubilee Singers’ close-harmony “Judgment’s Coming” is one of their best-loved numbers.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Selah Jubilee Singers

The lone known recording by Mary Brown and the United Echoes is a spirit-filled romp titled “The Judgment.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - Mary Brown and the United Echoes

The Swindell Brothers with Bishop J.J. Wilkerson were one of the more unique quartets in gospel music – witness their charming “Judge Not.”

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Swindell Brothers with Bishop J.J. Wilkerson

The Bells of Zion were practitioners of a particular sub-genre, a soulful, particularly Southern brand of downhome gospel music.

SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Bells of Zion

Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories - and plays recordings - from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community, and the influence they have had on the rest of American music.