I remember James Phelps well. He was like an uncle to me. His niece and I have been besties since she was 6 mos and I was a year old. Our families are melded like one. R. I. P. Uncle James. We miss you. ❣️
JAMES PHELPS COULD BLOW( SING)!!!! BEAUTIFUL VOICE,WHEN I FIRST HEARD HIM SING,I HEARD THE SAM COOKE SOUND. SAM COOKE AND AL GREEN ARE TWO OF THE BEST SOUL SINGERS EVER CASE CLOSED!!!!!
I TRULY, TRULY WISH...that someone would have mercy on me...and up-load the video of James Phelps and the Soul Stirrers on Jubilee Showcase ( not just the audio) but the true Video of them singing Must Jesus Bear The Cross 😔..
After James Phelps, Willie Rogers, James Davis, Frank Davis, Eddie Huffman, Larry Hilton Cooke....I enjoyed singing lead in that Sam Cooke Style... Great Times..
And it could still work. The lead singer would have to remain humble before God and man and remember that what we have is truly a gift from God. One of the true gifts that can be enjoyed by ALL, YET sacrificed back to HIM for is glory.. I loved singing with and for the Soul Stirrers... What a blessing to me and my family. I could have sang with them throughout eternity 😅😅 but one night, while on the stage singing ..I got a call from my dad to come home 4mths later.my mother was gone....and 3mths after that...my dad was gone. I truly haven't sang since.. If you get time and a chance... Check out Larry Hilton Cooke 3 and Larry Hilton Cooke 4 😊😊 let me know 😀 what you think..Thanks friend..
Sam Cooke’s imprint on the Soul Stirrers was so profound that, after he crossed over, they hired singers who sounded a lot like Sam for decades to come. Every great Soul Stirrer lead after Sam sounded like him. From Johnny Tailor to Jimmy Outlet to this brother. All adapted Sam’s delivery and had a very similar vocal tone.
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@@arnibah Perhaps, A. V. I doubt it, though. Jubilee Showcase aired for 21 years, hosting black artists almost exclusively. My sense is that Sid Ordower and Jubilee Showcase were both friends and mentors to black artists. Here is an excerpt I found online that speaks to Sid's character. _"“I didn’t go down there to take a beating, but if it took a beating to safe a life. I’m glad I did it,” said a bruised and battered Sid Ordower as he spoke to reporters after stepping from the plane at Midway in 1951. He has just returned from Jackson, Mississippi, where he had appealed to the Mississippi State Supreme Court for a stay of execution to allow new evidence to be presented in the case of Willie McGee, who had been unjustly convicted of raping a white woman. As a result of that vicious beating by racist thugs, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice intervened and granted a stay of execution."_
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that these songs were like listening to Sam Cooke himself and the church at this time had rejected Sam. How can you reject the man but embrace his sound and style?