Preiser, David (2002). Uncloudy Day [CD liner notes]. New York: Koch Jazz. During their early career, they recorded in an acoustic gospel-folk style with various labels: United Records, Vee-Jay Records (their "Uncloudy Day" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" were best sellers), Checker Records, Riverside Records, and then Epic Records in 1965.
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Chester Staples, was pastor.H.R.R. Liner notes to original Vee Jay l.p. Uncloudy Day, 1959. They signed their first professional contract in 1952.
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Danielle was born in Richmond, Virginia to parents Robert Kimmey and DeLise Perkins Kimmey Hall.Carpenter, Bil. Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia. Hal Leonard Corporation, 2005.
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Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia, p. 273. CMP Media, 2005. . Accessed November 20, 2008. He primarily sang in falsetto register, adding another flavor to his music.
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Guitarras Hermanas is the first album released by the flamenco-influenced Latin guitar instrumental duo Lara & Reyes. The most successful single from this album was "Cielo Sin Nubes" (Uncloudy Sky).
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This second pressing claims that "On Doing an Evil Deed Blues", "In Christ There Is No East or West", "The Transcendental Waterfall", and "Uncloudy Day" are 1964 rerecordings and the rest ("St. Louis Blues", "Poor Boy Long Ways from Home", "John Henry", "Desperate Man Blues", "Sun Gonna Shine in My Back Door Someday Blues", and "Sligo River Blues") are the original 1959 versions. "Uncloudy Day" was actually the same recording, as was "St. Louis Blues" in an edited version. The 1959 album contained a version of Blind Blake's "West Coast Blues", which (despite being rerecorded in 1964) was not included on the album.
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Daniel Dimitri Rodriguez (November 10, 1967 – October 6, 1990),Uncloudy Days book, P. 356 alias D-Boy Rodriguez, was a Christian rap artist. He released two albums that received moderate commercial success, before being murdered in 1990. His third album was released posthumously.
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They trademarked the image. Unable to make it work they sold to the R.T. Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph. Davis would hire Nancy Green to portray the character at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia Backbeat Books (August 23, 2005) In 1900 he was made editor for Gazette.
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Willie and Family Live is a live album by country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released in 1978 as a double-LP. It was recorded live at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, Nevada in April 1978. Emmylou Harris provides backup vocals on "Will the Circle be Unbroken", "Uncloudy Day" and "Amazing Grace"; Johnny Paycheck provides backup vocals on "Amazing Grace" and "Take this Job and Shove It".
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Uncloudy Day, also known as Unclouded Day, is a gospel song written by Josiah Kelley Alwood in 1879. Originally popular in church hymnals, it has come to be recorded many times over the years since, including being an early attention- getter for future star act The Staple Singers in 1956, their version serving as an inspiration to a young Bob Dylan, who called it "the most mysterious thing I'd ever heard".
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"As Long As I Got You" is a 1968 song by Laura Lee.All Music Guide to the Blues 2003 The song reached #31 on the R&B; charts and was covered by the Laurie Allen Revue. The song was said to be based on The Violinaires' gospel hit "I Don't Know", written by Gene Barge, also in 1968.Bill Carpenter Uncloudy Days The Gospel Music Encyclopedia p.248.
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Staples was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 10, 1939. She began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road.
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Meanwhile, the single "Uncloudy Day" peaked at number four on Billboard's Hot Country Singles. Billboard delivered a favorable review, describing the album as a "powerful LP, that is often lively and uptempo". Meanwhile, Stereo Review felt that Nelson "hit it right on the button with his honky-tonk instrumentation". Rolling Stone favored the album, while attributed its success to its link with the at the time ongoing Outlaw movement.
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"Uncloudy Day" was an early influence on Bob Dylan, who said of it in 2015, "It was the most mysterious thing I'd ever heard... I'd think about them even at my school desk...Mavis looked to be about the same age as me in her picture (on the cover of "Uncloudy Day")...Her singing just knocked me out...And Mavis was a great singer—deep and mysterious. And even at the young age, I felt that life itself was a mystery."Interview with Bob Dylan. i newspaper (London) Feb 3rd 2015 The Staples' move to Epic had a run of albums, including the live in-church Freedom Highway album produced by Billy Sherrill; the title track of which was a civil rights movement protest song penned by Pops Staples. It was on Epic that the Staple Singers developed a style more accessible to mainstream audiences, with "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" and "For What It's Worth" (Stephen Stills) in 1967.
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In 1965 the group performed and were appointed Ambassadors of Good Will at the New York's World Fair. The Brown Singers along with the Ebenezer Baptist Church Mass Choir have produced 19 live recording albums. The ninth album "The Uncloudy Day" was nominated for the Dove Award by the National Gospel Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee. The twelfth album entitled "You've Done It Once Again" was nominated for the Columbus Gospel Music Excellence Award.
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After Atlantic closed its experimental country music division, Nelson signed a contract with Columbia Records that gave him total creative control. After the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger, the label published The Troublemaker in 1976. Its release had a good reception by the critics, while it charted on Billboard's Top Country Albums and on Billboard 200, at number one and sixty respectively. The single "Uncloudy Day" charted at number four on Billboard's Hot Country Singles.
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Rutt was said to have originated the concept of Aunt Jemima pancake mix. Rutt sold the idea to the Davis Milling Company in St. Joseph which marketed it at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia Backbeat Books (August 23, 2005) In 1903, The St. Joseph Post started publication and was quickly purchased by Palmer and was renamed the St. Joseph News and Press. In 1913, it moved into its headquarters at Edmond and Seventh Streets, where it remains today.
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Ed's original about fighting addiction - Fire of My God in My Eyes - became a multiple award winner, being recognized by the International Song of the Year Awards, the Nashville Paramount Song Contest, and The Billboard World Song Contest. Other popular tracks included a partnership with members of the Indian Harbour Church Community Kids Choir on Terry's tribute for fishermen Fishers of Men Blessings. Heed the Call, Ì Just Don't See it` and covers of classics including Uncloudy Day and Soul of Man rounded out this fundraising partnership. 2014 the album SINGLES was released.
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There he sang with the Trumpet Jubilees while working in the stockyards, in construction work, and later in a steel mill. In 1948 Roebuck and his wife Oceola Staples formed The Staple Singers to sing as a gospel group in local churches, with their children. The Staple Singers first recorded in the early 1950s for United and then the larger Vee-Jay Records, with songs including 1955's "This May Be the Last Time" (later adapted by The Rolling Stones as "The Last Time") and "Uncloudy Day". In the 1960s the Staple Singers moved to Riverside Records, Epic Records, and later Stax Records and began recording protest, inspirational and contemporary music, reflecting the civil rights and anti-war movements of the time. They gained a large new audience with "Respect Yourself" (which featured Pops, nearly 57 at the time, on lead on the long version for more than two minutes), the 1972 US # 1 hit "I'll Take You There", "If You're Ready (Come Go With Me)", and other hits.
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