How I Got Over - (previously unreleased, live, Live In Church)
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God Bless the Child - (previously unreleased, Live)
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Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go - (previously unreleased)
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Take My Hand, Precious Lord - (previously unreleased, Live)
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Drunkards Down There - (previously unreleased)
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City Called Heaven - (previously unreleased)
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Surely God Is Able
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Just Over the Hill - (previously unreleased)
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Jesus Is All and All - (previously unreleased)
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Storm Is Passing Over, The
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Bad News, Bad Times
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Remember Me - (previously unreleased)
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Lord Will Make a Way Somehow, The
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O Death (Death in the Morning)
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Ain't That Just Like Him - (Live In Church)
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O Lord Remember Me
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Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
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Born to Sing the Gospel
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Charge to Keep I Have, A - (previously unreleased, Live In Church)
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All Along the Highway
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Strong Again - (previously unreleased)
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Jesus Remember - (previously unreleased)
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Press on Like the Bible Said
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Day Is Past and Gone, The
Performer Notes
Personnel: Marion Williams (piano); Jonathan DuBose, Jr. (guitar, drums); Eddie Brown (piano, organ, keyboards); Gladys Gordon, Lloyd Gary, Marion Franklin, Buddy Crosby, James Cleveland (piano); James Perry (organ, keyboards); Jessy Dixon (organ); Robin Keith Williams , Roy Markowitz (drums).
Recording information: ??/1968-09/1992.
Photographer: Giuseppe Pino.
Gospel great Marion Williams possessed one of the strongest voices in the history of American music, and with a four-octave range coupled with her uncanny rhythmic timing and a dynamic grasp of melisma that kept it from being mere ornamentation, she stalked the gospel stage like few have before or since. Remember Me is a powerful retrospective of Williams' solo years, and includes several live and previously unissued tracks, all of which feature her stunning, dynamic singing. Her version of "God Bless the Child" here exhibits none of the apparent resignation that many singers have given the song over the years, but instead instills it with a strength of will that turns it from resigned acceptance to hard statement from note one. Similarly, her take on "O Death" changes the tone of the song from a desperate request to a flat-out demand for "another day." Williams' 1981 version of "City of Heaven" is a huge, ominous masterpiece, and the bluesy emotion in her voice is almost terrifying in its immediacy. Had she aimed her talents at the secular side, Williams would have undoubtedly been widely acknowledged as one of the greatest singers of her era (following her death in 1994, Rolling Stone actually proclaimed her "the greatest singer ever"), but she stuck to gospel, which limited her audience. Her influence in the pop field, though, has been quietly immense, and every soul singer on earth owes her a great deal. Remember Me is the perfect introduction to this amazing singer. ~ Steve Leggett
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They call her the greatest singer ever, and that's fine by me. This
album beats all her other records, even those house-wreckers with the
Ward Singers. The church cuts, "How I Got Over" and "A Charge to
Keep I Have" and the sexy (forgive me lord) "Ain't That Just Like Him"
have the people shouting. The Carnegie Hall cuts, "Precious Lord"
and 'Standing Here Wondering" are just amazing. I really like her
when she's deep and subtle. You've never heard "God Bless the Child"
like this. "Remember Me," "The Storm is Passing Over," and those
scary songs, "Death in the Morning" and "The Day is Past and Gone"
would move a statue. I've always been partial to some of her later
records like "Bad News, Bad Times," "Motherless Child" and -- my secret
favorite -- "All Along the Highway." But there's not a weak song in
the bunch. I've played this album five times since yesterday. I've also added it to my iPod. Add it to yours and you'll get sanctified chills.
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