Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Biography
[Edit]Alongside Willie Mae Ford Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is widely acclaimed among the greatest Sanctified gospel singers of her generation; a flamboyant performer whose music often flirted with the blues and swing, she was also one of the most controversial talents of her day, shocking purists with her leap into the secular market — by playing nightclubs and theaters, she not only pushed spiritual music into the mainstream, but in the process also helped pioneer the rise of pop-gospel. Tharpe was born March 20, 1915 in Cotton Plant, AR; the daughter of Katie Bell Nubin, a traveling missionary and shouter in the classic gospel tradition known throughout the circuit as "Mother Bell," she was a prodigy, mastering the guitar by the age of six. At the same time, she attended Holiness conventions alongside her mother, performing renditions of songs including "The Day Is Past and Gone" and "I Looked Down the Line."
In time, the family relocated to Chicago, where Tharpe began honing her unique style; blessed with a resonant vibrato, both her vocal phrasing and guitar style drew heavy inspiration from the blues, and she further aligned herself with the secular world with a sense of showmanship and glamour unique among the gospel performers of her era. Signing to Decca in 1938, Tharpe became a virtual overnight sensation; her first records, among them Thomas A. Dorsey's "Rock Me" and "This Train," were smash hits, and quickly she was performing in the company of mainstream superstars including Cab Calloway and Benny Goodman. She led an almost schizophrenic existence, remaining in the good graces of her core audience by recording material like "Precious Lord," "Beams of Heaven," and "End of My Journey" while also appealing to her growing white audience by performing rearranged, uptempo spirituals including "Didn't It Rain" and "Down by the Riverside."
During World War II, Tharpe was so popular that she was one of only two black gospel acts — the Golden Gate Quartet being the other — to record V-Discs for American soldiers overseas; she also toured the nation in the company of the Dixie Hummingbirds, among others. In 1944, she began recording with boogie-woogie pianist Sammy Price; their first collaboration, "Strange Things Happening Every Day," even cracked Billboard's race records Top Ten, a rare feat for a gospel act, and one which she repeated several more times during the course of her career. In 1946, she teamed with the Newark-based Sanctified shouter Madame Marie Knight, whose simple, unaffected vocals made her the perfect counterpoint for Tharpe's theatrics; the duo's first single, "Up Above My Head," was a huge hit, and over the next few years they played to tremendous crowds across the church circuit.
However, in the early '50s Tharpe and Knight cut a handful of straight blues sides; their fans were outraged, and although Knight soon made a permanent leap into secular music — to little success — Tharpe remained first and foremost a gospel artist, although her credibility and popularity were seriously damaged. Not only did her record sales drop off and her live engagements become fewer and farther between, but many purists took Tharpe's foray into the mainstream as a personal affront; the situation did not improve, and she spent over a year touring clubs in Europe, waiting for the controversy to die down. Tharpe's comeback was slow but steady, and by 1960 she had returned far enough into the audience's good graces to appear at the Apollo Theatre alongside the Caravans and James Cleveland. While not a household name like before, she continued touring even after suffering a major stroke in 1970, dying in Philadelphia on October 9, 1973.
Title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Gospel Train
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: Didn't It Rain (Remastered) [(Live in 1960)] - Single
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Pop
Title: The Original Soul Sister (CD1)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel
Title: Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel, Rock
Title: The Original Soul Sister (CD3)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel
Title: I Love...Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: Gospel 'n' Soul Revival
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: The Original Soul Sister (CD2)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel
Title: Sister Acts On The Gospel Train
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Marie Knight
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Gospel, Jazz
Title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 2 1942-1944
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: The Very Best of Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Rockabilly
Title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe Golden Hits (All Tracks Remastered)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: Studio 102 Essentials: Sister Rosetta Tharpe & The Tabernacle Choir
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Gospel
Title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vol. 3 (1946-1947)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: The One And Only Queen of Hot Gospel
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: Down by the Riverside (Remastered) [(Live in 1960)] - Single
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Pop
Title: Blessed Assurance (Expanded Edition)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Rosettes
Genre: Gospel
Title: The Gospel Queen Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: The Gospel of the Blues (Remastered)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Title: Gospel Train + Sister On Tour (Bonus Track Version)
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B
Title: The Jubilee Shows No. 56 & No. 61
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Barney Bigard, Johnny Mercer
Genre: Jazz
Title: Up Above My Head
Artist: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Gospel, Vocal & Symphonic
Title: Gospel & Negro Spirituals
Collections
Title: Traditional Christmas Classics
Genre:
Title: Mardi Gras Carnival Music
Genre: World Music
Title: Ultimate Rock N' Roll Drinkers & Sinners
Genre: Rock
Title: Up Jumped the Devil (American Devil's Song 1920-1950)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Train Kept a Rollin'
Genre: Blues
Title: The Early Roots of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 1
Genre: Rock, Rockabilly
Title: Voodoo Jazz & Blues
Genre: Jazz
Title: Have Yourself a Jazzy Little Christmas
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gospel Christmas Highlights
Genre: Gospel, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Verve Remixed: The First Ladies
Genre: Electronica
Title: Inspiring Elvis
Genre: Country
Title: Best of Gospel Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Come Rain, Come Shine
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Gospel, Vol. 1
Genre: Gospel
Title: Peacock Gospel Classics: Ladies of Gospel
Genre: Gospel
Title: Graveyard Disposition (Deathly Ditties 1920's - 1950's)
Genre: Rock
Title: The Great Gospel Women Vol. 2
Genre: Gospel
Title: The Great Gospel Women
Genre: Gospel
Title: I Smell a Rat
Genre: Rock
Title: The History of Black Gospel, Vol. 3
Genre: Gospel
Title: Gospel Classics
Genre: Gospel
Title: 100 Greatest Gospel Classics
Genre: Gospel
Title: Gospel Legend
Genre: Gospel
Title: Great Black Gospel, Volume 2
Genre: Gospel
Title: Inspirational Gospel, Vol. 1
Genre: Gospel
Title: The World Of... The Greatest Gospels
Genre: Gospel
Title: 50 Best of Gospel
Genre: Gospel
Title: Hallelujah! Black Gospel Favorites
Genre: Gospel
Title: The Gospel Tradition - Classic Field Recordings
Genre: Gospel
Title: Gospel Songs Of Praise
Genre: Gospel
Title: Mighty Day - 25 Gospel Greats
Genre: Gospel
Title: Greatest R&B Hits of 1949, Vol. 6
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Women Blues Singers (1928-1969)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: American Roots - Blues & Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: The Very Best of Gospel: 50 Greatest Hits
Genre: Gospel
Title: When the Saints Go Marching In - Gospel Classics
Genre: Gospel
Title: Essential Christian Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Sound of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Original Soundies Collection, Vol. 4
Genre: Jazz
Title: Vocal Jazz 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: The History of Blues: Two
Genre: Blues
Title: Johnny Cash - Roots & Branches
Genre: Country
Title: Praise and Glory 60 Gospel Greatest Hits
Genre: Gospel
Title: Blues, Swing and All That Jazz, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Down by the Riverside - Best of Southern Gospel
Genre: Gospel
Title: Heaven's Journey
Genre: Gospel
Title: Southern Gospel
Genre: Gospel
Title: Cotton Club Vol. 2 (Digitally Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Goodbye, Babylon, Vol. 5
Title: All Aboard: The Blues Train
Genre: Blues
Title: Great Songs, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest Songs, Vol. 5
Genre: Pop
Title: Naughty Tracks of Early Blues, Vol. 1 (Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: Ladies Sing The Blues Vol 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Father's Day Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: Naughty Tracks of Early Blues, Vol. 2 (Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: R & B Gospel Greats
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Gospel
Title: Ladies Only
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Pop
Featuring albums
Title: Great Black Gospel Hits, Volume 1
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: The History of Black Gospel Volume 5
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: The History of Black Gospel Volume 3
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: The History of Black Gospel Volume 2
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: The History of Black Gospel Volume 4
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: The Great Gospel Women
Artist: Various Artists
Title: The Great Gospel Women Vol. 2
Artist: Various Artists
Title: Best of Southern Gospel
Artist: Mahalia Jackson Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: I Got Two Wings: Elder Utah Smith And Cogic Friends
Artist: (Various)
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: I Got Two Wings: Elder Utah Smith And Cogic Friends
Artist: Various
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: Elvis & Nixon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Are You Ready To Rock: The Singles 1942-1955
Artist: Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B