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The Staple Singers are one of the most celebrated and respected groups to have graced the gospel landscape in the post-war era, their music transcending the boundaries of the genres so that they became equally successful and admired across gospel, soul and R&B in a career that spanned six decades. The patriarch of the Staples family, Roebuck 'Pops' Staples, formed the group in Chicago with his children Cliotha, Pervis and Mavis, in 1948 when Mavis was just nine years old, and by 1952 they had signed their first recording deal with United. Over the next decade they recorded for various labels, most notably after United for Vee-Jay, Gospel and Riverside, their music already displaying a commercial bluesy edge which differentiated from much of the mainstream gospel of that era. This 3-CD anthology brings together just about all the records they released on both singles and albums during that formative part of their career when the younger members were maturing and they were honing the style which would bring them classic R&B and pop hits in subsequent decades. As well as the A and B sides of their singles, including one or two on lesser known labels, it includes all the tracks from their albums during that era - albums Uncloudy Day, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Swing Low, Gospel Program and Hammer & Nails. It's a marvellous introduction to the group at the start of their glittering career.
It Rained Children
If I Could Hear My Mother Pray
God's Wonderful Love
Uncloudy Day
I Know I Got Religion
Let Me Ride
I'm Coming Home
Help Me Jesus
I Had a Dream
Since He Lightened My Heavy Load
Low Is the Way
On My Way to Heaven
I'm Leaning
Going Away
So Soon
Downward Road
Sit Down
Tell Heaven
Revive Us Again
It's Gonna Rain
I Just Can't Keep It to Myself
This May Be the Last Time
This Same Jesus
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Don't Drive Me Away
Pray on
Too Close
Come on Up in Glory
Somebody Saved Me
Let's Go Home
Don't Knock
I've Been Scorned
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Sit Down Servant
I'm So Glad
Born in Bethlehem
Stand By Me
Two Wings
Calling Me
Day Is Passed and Gone
Good News
Hammer and Nails
Gloryland
Everybody Will Be Happy
Hear My Call, Here
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Great Day
I'm Willin' - Part 1
I'm Willin' - Part 2
Do You Know Him'
New-Born Soul
A Dying Man's Plea
New Home
Gamblin' Man
Use What You Got
The Virgin Had One Son
There Was a Star
