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Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians: The Best Of Fred Waring

God's Trombones
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Ain't Gonna Study War No More
Countin' My Blessings
Old Man River
Let My People Go (Go Down, Moses)
Standin' in De Need of Prayer
The Lonesome Road
Shadrack
Born in Bethlehem
Hand Me Down
Somebody Bigger Than You And I
Martilda
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Look Down That Lonesome Road
Let My People Go
One For The Little Bitty Baby
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

Directed by Fred Waring

The stirring performance of timeless music continues to inspire and delight listeners and viewers of all ages. The Fred Waring Show, a groundbreaking musical variety show from the golden days of early television, ran from 1949 until 1954 and was nominated for two primetime Emmys. This DVD features the incomparable baritone Frank Davis as the preacher in a Waring fan favorite, God's Trombones, the stirring James Weldon Johnson narrative poem set to music by Roy Ringwald. Gertrude Jeanette is the prayer leader. In addition, you will find a selection of favorite spirituals and folk songs performed by Frank Davis and the Glee Club Frank Davis was a singer (bass) and soloist with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians from 1952 - 1959, in 1962 and again from 1968-69. He was renowned as a spiritual and gospel singer, and in addition to performing with the Pennsylvanians, he did several solo concert tours.

6847 DVD $24.95   Mixed | Chorus | United States | Choral Performance DVDs