I was so excited to find this. I was born in '56...as a child on car trips my mom and dad sang all the time...I learned this son from a very young age and had never knew where it came from...they never mentioned this group...and I was amazed in looking at other tracks for this group another song I Know Somebody's Listening was also by this group..my mom is still alive but never mentioned this group!
Idk if you'll see this since you commented over a year ago, but this is an old hymn that's been around for a VERY long time! They might be one of the first ones to have recorded it, but aren't the ones who originally wrote it. These hymns have been passed down generation after generation. We might never know who wrote many of these old hymns, but that just makes it that much more special. This was my favorite hymn to sing in church and the one I chose to sing for my granny's funeral as her final farewell song. I hope lite treats you well!
some people sing this song at a slower pace, I love it they way they sing it here. I have been listening to the chuck wagon gang for more 65 years; love them
Preacher J Bazzel Mull started the Gospel Singing Convention,the forerunner of the Gaither Gospel hour with this awesome 'Gang' POWERED BY 50,000 watt radio stations through out the South!
I love this group and this song. I remember hearing it on the radio from a station in Chicago. The name of the program was "The Suppertime Frolic" playing country and gospel. I was probably 7 to 10 years old then.
You are absolutely right...I guess my tin ear was acting up the night I made the comment...I have an album that has this very recording on it....Can you imagine how great it would've been to have heard the original group in person? I was blessed to have worked at a small town AM station that had Sunday afternoon southern gospel...they had many of the original albums...and I played them every time I could!!
My mom and dad and grandma and grandpa used to get up early Sunday mornings and watch and listen to gospel music. Let's see if I remember, their was Davy and Goliath, which was kind of a spiritual puppet show, and then it was the Gospel Singing Jubilee.
Jim plays guitar, sings that incredible back-stop bass. Art Satherly and Don Law cut them in San Antonio, their turn at the one-mike 78rpm lathe delayed by the "colored Boy" Robert Johnson taking so long. I mentioned to a relative of the CW Gang, they were among the few gospel quartets (e.g., the Florida Boys, Stamps, Oak Ridge, etc.) who didn't have a piano player. She laughed, "Given where they came from, they were lucky to afford a guitar.
@Ron Reagan: If you will listen very carefully you will note that this performance and the performance heard on the Columbia Historic Edition (1985) are two different takes. I think both takes ended up being released on the different labels, like Perfect, Okeh, Vocalion, and Columbia. This version appeared on the 1957 Columbia compilation LP "Sacred Songs", also on "Favorite Country Hymns", 1950 (10 inch), and the 1960 compilation on the Columbia/Harmony label "Perfect Joy". FYI. It's a top favorite among the Gang's most ardent fans. I used to have a clock made on the face of this 78 on Okeh.
To show you how these recordings were made without today's technology, listen to the 1940 version of I'll Fly Away...at about 2:11 there is a "blooper"...if it was recorded today, modern equipment would have taken it away...back then everything was recorded live...as is...and singing a wrong word didn't matter....it makes me appreciate the old way so much better.
Aunt Rose explained it, "Those record blanks were real expensive, so if it wasn't a major mistake we didn't worry about it." The way they covereed (two used one lyric, two another), it sounds intentional.
anybody remember the mull singin convention which aired on clear channel XERF just across the border in old mexico? cuidad coholia, or something like that. thats all the sold was the chuck wagon gang.
Boy Does Your Comment Bring Back Memories I Remember The Mull Singing Convention Over The Same Radio Station As A Handicapped Youth With Cerebral Plasy These Songs Would Transport Me Almost To Heaven Itself !!!!! From Terry K. In South Louisiana.
I was born in 1950 and have enjoy their music ever since. Hope to hear them sing in heaven.
This was my favorite song, when I was a little girl. I will be 66 later this month. It is still one of my favorites. God bless.
I'm your age ❤
Great tune in new movie Killers of the Flower Moon
I really like the scene in the movie with this song. It fits so perfect👍Stuck in my head.
Great old time southern gospel music
This was a song my dad sang. I sang it to my brother everyday when he was unconscious and dying, along with "You Are My Sunshine."
Amen one of these days it will be great
Love this! My Mom would play her Chuck Wagon Gang album every Sunday. Miss those Sunday mornings growing up!
2024
I was so excited to find this. I was born in '56...as a child on car trips my mom and dad sang all the time...I learned this son from a very young age and had never knew where it came from...they never mentioned this group...and I was amazed in looking at other tracks for this group another song I Know Somebody's Listening was also by this group..my mom is still alive but never mentioned this group!
Idk if you'll see this since you commented over a year ago, but this is an old hymn that's been around for a VERY long time! They might be one of the first ones to have recorded it, but aren't the ones who originally wrote it. These hymns have been passed down generation after generation. We might never know who wrote many of these old hymns, but that just makes it that much more special. This was my favorite hymn to sing in church and the one I chose to sing for my granny's funeral as her final farewell song. I hope lite treats you well!
some people sing this song at a slower pace, I love it they way they sing it here. I have been listening to the chuck wagon gang for more 65 years; love them
I have this on an original record from my great-great-grandmother.
Preacher J Bazzel Mull started the Gospel Singing Convention,the forerunner of the Gaither Gospel hour with this awesome 'Gang' POWERED BY 50,000 watt radio stations through out the South!
Beautiful
July 28,2024 🎉
I love this group and this song. I remember hearing it on the radio from a station in Chicago. The name of the program was "The Suppertime Frolic" playing country and gospel. I was probably 7 to 10 years old then.
Love. This. Song!! Has. A. Great Message We are. To Help and Encourage Each other !! And. May God Bless Us All! In Jesus Name Amen!@
I'm a huge fan of the Chuck wagon gang
You are absolutely right...I guess my tin ear was acting up the night I made the comment...I have an album that has this very recording on it....Can you imagine how great it would've been to have heard the original group in person?
I was blessed to have worked at a small town AM station that had Sunday afternoon southern gospel...they had many of the original albums...and I played them every time I could!!
My mom and dad and grandma and grandpa used to get up early Sunday mornings and watch and listen to gospel music. Let's see if I remember, their was Davy and Goliath, which was kind of a spiritual puppet show, and then it was the Gospel Singing Jubilee.
What a lovely song ❤
How very true praise God
I first heard this listening to the Mull Singing Convention from Knoxville and fell in love with their music. Love Jim's bass vocals.
I've tried to collect as much of their records as I can....and I'm not afraid to crank up the volume when I play them!!
Beautiful song, Love. The. Words!!
The November 1936 sessions had not only the CWG but Western Swing bands, Mexican American groups and the legendary Bluesman Robert Johnson
Love vintage music 😊🙏
Jim plays guitar, sings that incredible back-stop bass.
Art Satherly and Don Law cut them in San Antonio, their turn at the one-mike
78rpm lathe delayed by the "colored Boy" Robert Johnson taking so long.
I mentioned to a relative of the CW Gang, they were among the few gospel quartets (e.g., the Florida Boys, Stamps, Oak Ridge, etc.) who didn't have a piano player.
She laughed, "Given where they came from, they were lucky to afford a guitar.
Que maravilha. Tanto tempo atraz. Continua maravilhoso
WONDERFUL !!!!!!💝
The killers of the flower moon 😊
@Ron Reagan: If you will listen very carefully you will note that this performance and the performance heard on the Columbia Historic Edition (1985) are two different takes. I think both takes ended up being released on the different labels, like Perfect, Okeh, Vocalion, and Columbia. This version appeared on the 1957 Columbia compilation LP "Sacred Songs", also on "Favorite Country Hymns", 1950 (10 inch), and the 1960 compilation on the Columbia/Harmony label "Perfect Joy". FYI. It's a top favorite among the Gang's most ardent fans. I used to have a clock made on the face of this 78 on Okeh.
I just prayed for you AudieGrider. You belong to God. You know that you do.There really is no other way. Not in reality. Seek the truth.
I've got this on three 78s, different labels "Will You Meet Me Over Yonder" is the flip side on all three.
Nostalgic
To show you how these recordings were made without today's technology, listen to the 1940 version of I'll Fly Away...at about 2:11 there is a "blooper"...if it was recorded today, modern equipment would have taken it away...back then everything was recorded live...as is...and singing a wrong word didn't matter....it makes me appreciate the old way so much better.
Aunt Rose explained it, "Those record blanks were real expensive, so if it wasn't a major mistake we didn't worry about it." The way they covereed (two used one lyric, two another), it sounds intentional.
anybody remember the mull singin convention which aired on clear channel XERF just across the border in old mexico? cuidad coholia, or something like that. thats all the sold was the chuck wagon gang.
It was also on WBAP 820 Ft worth
"J. Basil and Mrs. Mull" they would say.
Boy Does Your Comment Bring Back Memories I Remember The Mull Singing Convention Over The Same Radio Station As A Handicapped Youth With Cerebral Plasy These Songs Would Transport Me Almost To Heaven Itself !!!!! From Terry K. In South Louisiana.
That place might be Drumright.
I think this is the modern group...not the original...sounds good anyway. The sound is a little "smoother" if you know what I mean.
catman5169 This IS the original group.
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