Vinyl Album - The Famous Davis Sisters - The Famous Davis Sisters Singing - Savoy

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Famous Davis Sisters
Title:	The Famous Davis Sisters Singing
Label:	Savoy
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	MG-14000 / SL-14000
Date:	Oct 1956
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Famous Davis Sisters	Twelve Gates To The City	Davis	Rate
A2	The Famous Davis Sisters	You've Got The River Jordan To Cross	Davis	Rate
A3	The Famous Davis Sisters	He'll Understand	Davis	Rate
A4	The Famous Davis Sisters	He's My King	Davis	Rate
A5	The Famous Davis Sisters	Won't It Be Wonderful There	Davis	Rate
A6	The Famous Davis Sisters	Jesus Gently Guide Me	Davis	Rate
B1	The Famous Davis Sisters	Rain In Jerusalem	Davis	Rate
B2	The Famous Davis Sisters	Oh Happy Day	Davis	Rate
B3	The Famous Davis Sisters	He's Mine	Davis, Davis, Davis	Rate
B4	The Famous Davis Sisters	Oh Sinner	Davis, Davis, Davis	Rate
B5	The Famous Davis Sisters	More Than All	Davis, Davis, Davis	Rate
B6	The Famous Davis Sisters	Lord Don't Leave Me	Davis	Rate

Notes

Liner notes: H. Alan Stein

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Number: 490293 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Front cover	Number: 490294 Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Back cover	Number: 490295 Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Side 1 label (late 1970's Arista repress)	Number: 490296 Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Side 2 label (late 1970's Arista repress)
Number: 490344 Uploaded By: PhilMH Description: Billboard review 13 October 1956

Comments and Reviews


Lee Wrecker 5th Sep 2016		Hey Phil, the link works fine and I don't subscribe to that service. The Davis Sisters are always great to hear.



PhilMH 5th Sep 2016		Link to this album in Google Play Music. I'd like to hear if this link works for any of you that don't currently have Google Play (Lee?).



PhilMH 4th Sep 2016		Well, I'll be - this album is now available digitally via Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, itunes, etc, along with 4 other Davis Sisters albums and several other Savoy gems from the Ward Singers, The Gospel Clefs, The Roberta Martin Singers, The Gay Sisters, etc. Of course, physical releases would have been preferable, but I'll take whatever I can get these days. Props to Malaco in Jackson, Mississippi, the current owners of the Savoy gospel catalogue (the jazz and R&B sides are owned by Denon in Japan) for putting these out, and most of them seem to be showing the original LP release dates in Amazon, but this one shows 1 January 1955, before any of the tracks were even recorded! I suspect that 1955 is the only date that Malaco has for this, and maybe Amazon defaults to the 1st of January for anything where they are only given the year.



PhilMH 19th Jan 2014		Good luck, Lee. You're probably more likely to find the Best Of CD as that is still in print in the USA, as is a UK CD issue, "1949-1952", which collects their recordings for Gotham, but uses the same cover photo of this LP including Jackie Verdell, who actually wasn't in the group then! With that, I may as well say who the members on the cover are: (L-R) Ruth Davis, Alfreda Davis, Audrey Davis, Jackie Verdell, Thelma Davis. And there is always ebay for some more of their original LP's, 45's and 78's (but I saw them first!)



Lee Wrecker 18th Jan 2014		Thanks for the upload Phil, I'll be hunting down a copy of this, I'm going to Brisbane next week on a bit of search and destroy mission so this is on the list.



PhilMH 18th Jan 2014		Added capture of BILLBOARD review from the issue dated 13 October 1956 - the week I was born, fancy that! MODS: Can you correct the release date to October 1956 please? Ta!



PhilMH 18th Jan 2014		Track B1, Rain In Jersusalem, leads Curtis Dublin and Ruth Davis.



PhilMH 18th Jan 2014		Track A3, He'll Understand (And Say Well Done), Ruth Davis lead.



PhilMH 18th Jan 2014		Track B2, Oh Happy Day (yes, that "Oh Happy Day", and no, Edwin Hawkins didn't write the song, only his group's arrangement of it!). Lead vocal by Jackie Verdell.



PhilMH 18th Jan 2014		Track A1: Twelve Gates To The City, leads by Curtis Dublin and Ruth Davis.



PhilMH 18th Jan 2014		The first Savoy gospel album from about 1955, which stayed in print for a long time, even past the sale of the label to Arista in 1977. The Hayes/Laughton gospel discography gives New York City as the location for these three 1955 sessions (9 February, 5 May, and 9 August), but the location may well be Rudy Van Gelder's original studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, and probably produced by Ozzie Cadena. Group personnel: Ruth (main lead, main writer), Audrey, Thelma and Alfreda Davis; Jackie Verdell (second lead), Curtis Dublin (piano, co-lead on "Twelve Gates To The City" and "Rain In Jerusalem").. As to which three of the four Davis siblings were the writers on B3, B4 and B5, I'd have to check at BMI. My Arista pressing has MASTERDISK machine-stamped into the dead wax, so presumably Arista had new masters made when they took over the catalogue. Anyway, if you see this LP (or the SavGos reissue titled "He'll Understand And Say Well Done"), grab it; ditto the double-LP or single CD 24-track Best Of.

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