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Q: How big is God?

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A: “Somebody Bigger Than You or I”  The Gospel Seekers  Finally, we have an album that answers the question that so many Xian records have posed – how big IS God?!

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Helle yeah!

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(Missionary-evangelist) Dale V. Helle sings (“Let he that know best hold you …”)  “In The Hollow of His Hand”   Sacred Records

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Bound for glory

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Gospel According to Nina Simone  Trip Gospel Records  (1973)…

A1 Anytime, Anywhere
A2 Sunday In Savannah
A3 You Can’t Hide
A4 Nobody’s Fault But Mine
A5 To Be Young, Gifted & Black
B1 Brown Baby
B2 Sinnerman

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Have faith (but wear a mask)

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I Had A Dream Volume One  The Trumpelettes  BOS Records (Cleveland, OH). $4.98. (1971)  Original Group Cover.  Here’s Jesus Won’t Forget Me Now!

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Stakes is high

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Three Rusty Nails  The Gospel Mel-Tones  Gospel Sound Records (Indiana)

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Don’t discount these guys!

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“Do You Know Him” ABC Songbird Records (1974)  Funky gospel,soul LP by largely, unheralded band the Pilgrim Outlets.  Here’s a sample!

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Motley crew

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The Joyful Heirs  “I Found a Treasure”  A custom pressing from Cincinnati circa late sixties (?)  I’ll let you take in the wonderful faces, hairstyles and clothes of this “group”  Who was listening to this when the radio was playing The Stones, Dylan, The Beatles, Janis, The Doors, Creedence, The Band, Motown, James Brown, Otis Redding … you get my point.  Anyway, Tony is the one who found this “treasure”!

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Honky cats

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“His Grace is Sufficient for Me”  The Little Country Trio  Melody Records

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Wartts and all

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Andrew Wartts and The Gospel Storytellers  Champ Records (1982)  I’m posting this not because I love the LP cover so much, but because it’s a beautiful on the INSIDE.  And I’m trying to find a copy for myself.  Can anyone help?!  Happy Holidays.

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Catch a wave

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“I’m Going Home … To Watch the Flowers Bloom”   The Richys  (with 7 year-old Janell doing recitations)   “The Richys sing “up-to-date”, yet hold strongly to old-time convictions, which many have laid aside.”

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