Greetings, I was randomly searching for some history of some revivals that involved my family when I was stunned to see this recording :). My father was Charles Rushing and the others you mentioned were my aunts and uncles! At this very moment I have a sizable collection of original White Church 78 rpm records sitting safely in a container not far from me, many self-released because my family didn't want to be officially associated with making profit from their God-given talents and calling. Thank you for posting this :). Your facts are correct with the exception of my Aunt Jeanette Rushing York Hardison who is very much alive although not quite as spry now but who is :), living in Florida. She is the last surviving Rushing sibling and I plan on seeing her very soon on a trip down there :). My Aunt Vesta's married name was Drye, married to Rev. J.T Drye a powerful sermon evangelist who used his remarkable memory to quote several books of the Bible during some services. Bernadene was married to Dee Rushing, in fact she is singing the lead on this song while my dad brings in the upper lead during choruses. Your date guesstimate is probably close, although the family sang several years before this with a couple of different siblings at times, etc. Large family, they could sub in a singer if a throat was scratchy :). Dee and Bernadene and their son Tracy were the first of the sibs to bring in spouses and eventually just about all of the siblings got married and when my cousins started showing up the group broke up some due to all those extra kids making the Cadillac limousine too small to carry them, lol. I grew up for several years in the back of a 54' Buick while my folks toured the country several times holding revivals, boy was that a lot of fun! :) In any case thank you for sending me off on a great memory trip :). If you wish to discuss this at some point just get in touch, I might be willing to post other recordings if there is any interest, it has been a long time.
Wow, I was really not expecting this. I guess I found an obituary for a different Jeanette then, I'll have to amend that and add a lot of new information to the description of the video. I actually bought this record in Florida, on a vacation to St. Petersburg a couple of weeks ago. I brought it back to Oklahoma with me. I'm glad to hear about your Aunt Jeanette, I'm sure she'd have a lot of great stories to tell. I've tried to get in contact with a couple of 78 artists before, neither of which worked out, but getting a comment from a direct relative like this is definitely a first for me. If you have any other information you'd like to discuss I have an email (with a rather silly name, I know, I made it when I was 13) in the the channel description. Thank you for your comment. :)
@theshellacstation78 Morning! I had a project I needed to finish last night, or early this morning, lol. You live in Oklahoma? Small world:). I have spent hours trying to get some decent recordings from these old records, lol, labor of love Ì guess. I actually have some very early recordings that were made on what feels like very thin metal. I still haven't found a stylus that will re-create the audio, very challenging :)
Sounds like you have some acetates there, one-of-a-kind probably. I would bet that you'd need a 78 stylus, but depending on the material they may be somewhat noisy irrespective of the stylus. In your original comment you said that a lot of recordings were made on these labels, do you have any of those recordings on labels like these here, or just the White Church label? And if you'd rather continue this conversation by email that email address is awesomevids2006@gmail.com Silly, I know
@@theshellacstation78 Sure, no worries. I know you have a far greater range of shellac treasures than just Gospel records, witness Mr Goodman up there :), let me see if I can find something and maybe send you a pic. I live in Yukon, OK, btw
Greetings, I was randomly searching for some history of some revivals that involved my family when I was stunned to see this recording :). My father was Charles Rushing and the others you mentioned were my aunts and uncles! At this very moment I have a sizable collection of original White Church 78 rpm records sitting safely in a container not far from me, many self-released because my family didn't want to be officially associated with making profit from their God-given talents and calling. Thank you for posting this :). Your facts are correct with the exception of my Aunt Jeanette Rushing York Hardison who is very much alive although not quite as spry now but who is :), living in Florida. She is the last surviving Rushing sibling and I plan on seeing her very soon on a trip down there :). My Aunt Vesta's married name was Drye, married to Rev. J.T Drye a powerful sermon evangelist who used his remarkable memory to quote several books of the Bible during some services. Bernadene was married to Dee Rushing, in fact she is singing the lead on this song while my dad brings in the upper lead during choruses. Your date guesstimate is probably close, although the family sang several years before this with a couple of different siblings at times, etc. Large family, they could sub in a singer if a throat was scratchy :). Dee and Bernadene and their son Tracy were the first of the sibs to bring in spouses and eventually just about all of the siblings got married and when my cousins started showing up the group broke up some due to all those extra kids making the Cadillac limousine too small to carry them, lol. I grew up for several years in the back of a 54' Buick while my folks toured the country several times holding revivals, boy was that a lot of fun! :) In any case thank you for sending me off on a great memory trip :). If you wish to discuss this at some point just get in touch, I might be willing to post other recordings if there is any interest, it has been a long time.
Wow, I was really not expecting this. I guess I found an obituary for a different Jeanette then, I'll have to amend that and add a lot of new information to the description of the video. I actually bought this record in Florida, on a vacation to St. Petersburg a couple of weeks ago. I brought it back to Oklahoma with me. I'm glad to hear about your Aunt Jeanette, I'm sure she'd have a lot of great stories to tell. I've tried to get in contact with a couple of 78 artists before, neither of which worked out, but getting a comment from a direct relative like this is definitely a first for me. If you have any other information you'd like to discuss I have an email (with a rather silly name, I know, I made it when I was 13) in the the channel description. Thank you for your comment. :)
@theshellacstation78 Morning! I had a project I needed to finish last night, or early this morning, lol. You live in Oklahoma? Small world:). I have spent hours trying to get some decent recordings from these old records, lol, labor of love Ì guess. I actually have some very early recordings that were made on what feels like very thin metal. I still haven't found a stylus that will re-create the audio, very challenging :)
Sounds like you have some acetates there, one-of-a-kind probably. I would bet that you'd need a 78 stylus, but depending on the material they may be somewhat noisy irrespective of the stylus. In your original comment you said that a lot of recordings were made on these labels, do you have any of those recordings on labels like these here, or just the White Church label? And if you'd rather continue this conversation by email that email address is awesomevids2006@gmail.com
Silly, I know
@@theshellacstation78 Sure, no worries. I know you have a far greater range of shellac treasures than just Gospel records, witness Mr Goodman up there :), let me see if I can find something and maybe send you a pic. I live in Yukon, OK, btw
That would be awesome! I'm up in NE Oklahoma, about two hours or so from there.
Great singing😊
Indeed it is, I love these small, and often times family, gospel groups