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Sallie Martin
12+ albums
gospelspirituals
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Sallie Martin (November 20, 1895 -June 18, 1988) was a gospel singer nicknamed "the mother of gospel music" for her efforts to popularize the songs of Thomas A. Dorsey (Thomas A. Dorsey with Sallie Martin) and her influence on other artists. Raised as a Baptist in Pittfield, Georgia, she joined the Pentecostal movement as a young woman. She began her career singing in Holiness churches after coming to Chicago in 1927. Martin's rough-hewn singing style, combined with the enthusiastic physicality of the Holiness church, nearly kept her from working with Dorsey, who looked down on the shouting style of many Holiness singers and was reluctant to hire a singer who could not read music. Martin nonetheless persuaded Dorsey, after three auditions, to hire her as part of a trio he had formed to introduce his songs to churches. She proved to be an able organizer with a shrewd financial sense who marketed Dorsey's songs, organized his finances, developed new avenues for business and helped launch the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, Inc. Martin was a successful artist in her own right, forming the Sallie Martin Singers, in which her daughter Cora Martin, Dinah Washington, then known as Ruth Jones, and Brother Joe May were featured, in 1940 after a dispute with Dorsey. She started her own publishing house, Martin and Morris Music, Inc., with Kenneth Morris (8/28/1917-1988), Gospel music publisher, arranger, composer, and innovator, was born in New York. Although he
top songs
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God Is a Battle Axe
2072I'll Tell It Wherever I Go
353Nobody Knows
324God Put A Rainbow In The Sky
105I'll Tell It Wherever I Go (Album Version)
86Nobody Knows / Sallie Martin
77The Little Wooden Church On The Hill
68Working On The Building
39I'll Tell It Wherever I Go (Sallie Martin)
210The Little Wooden Church
2albums
The History of Black Gospel Volume 4
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The History Of Black Gospel, Vol.4
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Precious Lord: The Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey
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Gospel Classics
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Precious Lord: Recordings Of The Great Gospel Songs Of Thomas A. Dorsey
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26 Grands Classiques Du Gospel
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Gospel Greats CD 1 - The Soho Selection
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Recordings of The Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey
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Les Plus Beaux Negro Spirituals
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Gospel Greats: The Soho Collection
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Gospel Greats - The Soho Selection
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