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Black History Month: Spirituals, Gospel & Doo Wop -- "The Evolution of Black Music In America”

This “MIDWEST BEAT with Tom Lounges” originally aired on  FEBRUARY 2, 2016 

 

 BLACK HISTORY MONTH: A FIVE-PART SERIES: 

PART ONE:  SPIRITUALS, GOSPEL & DOO-WOP -- “THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK MUSIC IN AMERICA”

 

February is BLACK HISTORY MONTH.   Each February installment of “Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges,” will be part of a month-long series with guest co-hosts and live performers as Tom Lounges spotlights the evolution of Black Music in America — progressing from early Spirituals to bass-slappin’ Funk.

 

In-Studio musical guests on the series’ — “PART ONE: SPIRITUALS, GOSPEL & DOO WOP” — segment is R&B veteran BILLY SHELTON of THE SPANIELS and Gospel Music icon WILLIE ROGERS of THE SOUL STIRRERS, who will speak first hand of the changes they have witnessed as black entertainers during their lifetime. They perform live in studio with special guests — PERNELL DAVIS, PATRICK PITRE and GENE STEWART.

Tom Lounges has been a radio personality and music journalist since 1979. For the last 43 years, Tom has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly music columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper.