FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 30, 1988 ©Copyright 1988, Billboard Publications, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or Billboard. transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written and clean it up a little. But that's what happens when permission of the publisher. you have that tendency to rerecord stuff until a pro- ject has no life." ALBUMS,. Now that "D &K" has been out for a while, Key says he's better able to step back and look at-and lis- TOP SPIRITUAL F- ten to-it more objectively. w Compiled from a national sample of retail store "Certain tracks you like at first, but after you hear o x one -stop sales reports. them a million times they make you nervous," he says. W < andz a o by Bob Darden I it is , "At first, loved 'Out Of The Danger Zone.' Now co 3 ARTIST TITLE starting to sound obnoxious to me. I think 'Brother To F a 3 LABEL & NUMBER /DISTRIBUTING LABEL ED DeGARMO & DANA KEY stand at the forefront Brother' is now my favorite, because it has a dark, ** NO.1 ** of a small group of Christian rock artists who have moody feel that seems to hold up better over a long THE WINANS QWEST 25510 /WARNER EROS. 5 weeks at No. One 1 1 17 been tested by the fire and have not just survived, but period of time. DECISIONS flourished. Through a decade's worth of albums, "The new, live sound on 'D &K' has a delightful side REV. MILTON BRUNSON/THOMPSOM COMMUNITY SINGERS 2 2 29 they've kept alive artistic and spiritual visions -some- effect," he says. "One of our earlier albums, 'Com- REJOICE WR 8369/A&M IF I BE LIFTED times in the face of definitely un- Christian attacks mander Sozo And The Charge Of The Light Brigade,' ARETHA FRANKLIN ARISTA AL -8497 3 8 5 from within the religious community. took about a zillion tracks to perfect. Consequently, ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM The result is a widely respected musical ministry, the LP was impossible to play live; we had to take a FLORIDA MASS CHOIR MALACO 6001 4 3 33 one that seems poised to reach an even wider audience computer on the road. For a four -piece band, it was a LIVE IN MIAMI FLORIDA with the release of the hard-rockin' "D &K" album on REV. CLAY EVANS & THE FELLOWSHIP CHOIR SAVOY SAV 14780 5 6 37 Power Discs Records. New DeGarmo Key FROM THE SHIP The release comes on the heels of an incredibly busy & album VICKIE WINANS LIGHT 7 -115- 72001 -0 6 4 17 year, even by the band's standards. DeGarmo & Key has live, hard -rockin' sound BE ENCOURAGED still release an album a year, which takes up a lot of NICHOLAS COMMAND CRN 1006 7 5 37 time rehearsing and recording. In addition, they've A LOVE LIKE THIS just released the special "Air Care Video" for the Mis- nightmare. 8 9 BEBE & CECE WINANS SPARROW 12573 /CAPITOL 29 sion Aviation Fellowship, they've done their usual "The new stuff is a lot more fun live. Now we're BEBE & CECE WINANS
number of U.S. concerts this year, and they recently finding ourselves with the bad habit, live, of just want- NEW JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH CHOIR SOUND OF GOSPEL SOG -28160 9 7 33 finished their first Canadian tour in four years. ing to do the stuff off of 'Street Light' and 'D &K' and SHOW ME THE WAY "I think 'D &K' is our most live- sounding LP yet," just forget the older stuff." THE RICHARD SMALLWOOD SINGERS REJOICE WR 8355/A &M 10 11 41 Key says. "I know of our tendency in the past to over- Over New Year's Eve, DeGarmo & Key filmed the TEXTURES
produce somewhat. Eddie and I grew up in the studio, group's first concert video, in Orlando, Fla. The video AL GREEN A &M SP 5150 11 13 41 and maybe we just know too much. We'd keep on features a second guitar player, who plays rhythm so SOUL SURVIVOR cleaning up the little things until it sounded too per- that Key can use a wireless mike and, he says, "act NEW JERSEY MASS CHOIR LIGHT 7.115- 711097 /LEXICON 12 10 53 fect-and just a little sterile. like a lead singer and do all of my great U2 stuff! LOOK UP AND LIVE
" 'Street Light' changed all of that," he says. "Boy, that's fun," he says with a laugh. "I never re- COMMISSIONED LIGHT 7 -115- 72005 -3 /LEXICON 13 30 5 "That's when we began experimenting by recording alized how restricted I was up there, stuck to that ON THE WINNING SIDE
our tracks live. It went so well we did it again on amp." VANESSA BELL ARMSTRONG RCA 10741J 14 14 5 'D &K,' only this time we did even more live work in VANESSA BELL ARMSTRONG
the studio. It takes more courage to do it this way, but Gospel Lectern has new hours through the end of CANTON SPIRITUALS J &B 0086 15 23 21 we did all of the lead breaks in one take in the studio, February. During working hours on Tuesdays and DETERMINED for instance. It is really difficult for me not to clean up Thursdays call 817 -799 -3611, extension 3083. Call TIMOTHY WRIGHT & JEROME FERRELL/LIGHTHOUSE CHOIR 16 25 5 a note here or a note there. I still think I could go back 817- 752 -1468 at all other times. SOUND OF GOSPEL SOG -2D166 HALLELUJAH IS THE HIGHEST PRAISE
NICHOLAS COMMAND CRN 1003 17 22 129 DEDICATED
MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY REJOICE WR8366 /A &M 18 16 33 CATCHING ON THE WILLIAMS BROTHERS MALACO 4409 19 15 77 J4,0 HAND AND HAND GOSPEL MUSIC WORKSHOP OF AMERICA 20 12 13 KING JAMES 8609 /SOUND OF GOSPEL LIVE IN THE MIAMI CIVIC AUDITORIUM
YOLANDA ADAMS SOUND OF GOSPEL SOG -163 21 18 9 BLUE JUST AS I AM EDWIN HAWKINS /MUSIC & ARTS SEMINAR MASS CHOIR 22 31 49 NOTES BIRTHRIGHT 70300 /CAPITOL GIVE US PEACE LUTHER BARNES & THE RED BUDD GOSPEL CHOIR 23 24 37 ATLANTA INT'L AIR 10116 SEE WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE by Peter Keepnews "Marsalis Standard Time, Volume 1" consists almost DONALD VAILS & THE SALVATION COOPERATION 24 21 41 entirely of old chestnuts -as does clarinetist Eddie SOUND OF GOSPEL SOG -2D155 UNTIL THE RAPTURE FAMILIAR NAMES DOMINATE the jazz categories Daniels' tribute to Charlie Parker, "To Bird With TIMOTHY WRIGHT /CONCERT CHOIR LIVE GOSPEARL PL 16038 /AIR 25 20 13 of this year's Grammy nominations -including three Love," which also earned two nominations. JESUS WILL great band leaders who are no longer with us. Other familiar names up for jazz Grammys this REV. F.C. BARNES & REV. JANICE BROWN ATLANTA INT'L AIR 10120 26 17 29 If there is a theme to the nominations, it is the link year include vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen I HEAR JESUS CALLING between past and present -or, as some might put it, McRae, Billy Eckstine, Arthur Prysock, and Joe DOUGLAS MILLER LIGHT LS5876 /LEXICON 27 27 141 the conservatism -that has characterized much of the Williams (the younger generation is represented by UNSPEAKABLE JOY jazz scene in the '80s. Thus, the still- swinging bands Janis Siegel and Bobby McFerrin; the quirkier side PILGRIM JUBILEES MALACO 4419 28 19 17 founded by Count Basie and Duke Ellington are both of things, happily, is represented by Dave Frishberg) GOSPEL ROOTS
cited for showcasing young artists. Basie's ensemble VANESSA BELL ARMSTRONG MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND MSSG 8001 /MALACO 29 28 57 provided the accompaniment for Diane Schuur's most FOLLOWING JESUS recent album, a contender for best -female -vocal hon- The past meets the present 30 NEW JEFF BANKS & THE REVIVAL TEMPLE MASS CHOIR SAVOY SL -14787 ors (Schuur won her first Grammy last year). And an CAUGHT UP IN THE RAPTURE augmented version of the Ellington orchestra is nomi- at the Grammy nominations BAY AREA CHAPTER /MUSIC & ARTS SEMINAR 31 32 25 nated in the big -band category for the "Digital Duke" BIRTHRIGHT 370310 /CAPITOL HOLD ON
album-while one of that album's special one -time- and instrumentalists Dexter Gordon and Chick REV. F.C. BARNES & REV. JANICE BROWN ATLANTA INT'L AIR 10059 32 RE -ENTRY only sidemen, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, copped Corea. Saxophonist Michael Brecker -who, while not ROUGH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN a nomination for his solo on "Cottontail." In addition, exactly a grizzled veteran, has probably been around 33 NEW MAGGIE INGRAM AND THE INGRAMETTES ATLANTA INT'L AIR 10118 the late Woody Herman is nominated for the final al- long enough to qualify as a familiar name -is nomi- THE MIAMI RIOT bum of his long career, "Woody's Gold nated in for his JAMES MOORE SOUND OF GOSPEL SOG -2D159 Star" -which both the soloist and group categories 34 26 9 means that only three of the five big -band albums in eponymous, straight -ahead album. And guitarist Lar- SOMETHING OLD AND SOMETHING NEW the Grammy race bear the names of living band lead- ry Carlton has scored a coup of sorts by receiving 35 NEw JAMES CLEVELAND KING JAMES KJ. 8507 /SOUND OF GOSPEL ers (Louis Bellson, Patrick Williams, and last year's nominations (for two different albums) in both jazz INSPIRED winner, Doc Severinsen). and fusion. His competitors in the latter category SHIRLEY CAESAR REJOICE WR 8365/A &M - 36 36 41 Fans of sibling rivalry may be intrigued to note that speaking of familiar names -are David Sanborn, SHIRLEY CAESAR HER VERY BEST Branford Marsalis is competing against his brother Yellowjackets, and duo FRANK HOOKER COMMAND CRN 1007 the Pat Metheny Group, the 37 33 5 Wynton for the second year in a row. But we think the of George Benson and Earl Klugh. HEAR THE WORD -playing Marsalis' We THE JACKSON SOUTHERNAIRES MALACO MAL 4417 trumpet two jazz nominations (best imagine these nominations will provide new fod- 38 29 53 instrumental performance, soloist and group) are der for those who routinely criticize the Grammys for HEAR OUR PRAYERS O LORD less the family REV. B.W. SMITH JR. PASTOR PR 75000 noteworthy for angle-or for the fact ignoring the cutting edge of jazz. We'd be hard 39 35 65 that he has clearly entered that select list of artists pressed to argue that this year's slate doesn 't -but if WATCH THEM DOGS who nominated time it's REV. MILTON BRUNSON /THOMPSOM COMMUNITY SINGERS get every they release an al- a somewhat predictable lineup, you won't catch us 40 37 89 bum -than for the further evidence they provide that suggesting that there's anyone on the list who doesn't REJOICE WR 8324/A&M THERE IS HOPE
tradition is this year's watchword. After all, his album deserve to be there. CD) Compact disk available. Recording Industry Assn. Of America (RIAA) certification for sales of 500,000 units. RIAA certification for sales of 1 million units.
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