LEGENDS OF SPIRITUAL & GOSPEL AND FOLK & COUNTRY after Joachim E. Berendt had come back from While the (until 1985) and flamenco SPIRITUAL & GOSPEL FESTIVAL 1965 Chicago with the idea to invite a handful festivals (until 1977) could survive into Feat. Bishop Samuel Kelsey & Rev. John Little, Inez Andrews of blues artists to his TV programme “ the 1970ties and 80ties, the year 1968 heralded & Andrewettes, Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, a.o. SPIRITUAL & GOSPEL FESTIVAL 1966 gehört und gesehen” (Jazz heard and seen) a new field of involvement and activity for THE FAMOUS Feat. Bishop Samuel Kelsey & Rev.J.Little, The Harmonizing Four, in Baden-Baden. Berendt could only carry the Lippmann+Rau tours. With the LIPPMANN+RAU The Dorothy Norwood Singers, The Gospelaires of Dayton Ohio, a.o. out this project if a tour could be organized appearance of artists like Jimi Hendrix, FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLK & COUNTRY MUSIC 1966 Feat. The New Lost City Ramblers, Roscoe Holcomb Tracy Schwarz, and the travel expenses recovered. Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles and others, Cyprien Landreneau, Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys, a.o. and Fritz Rau consequently , soul and rhythm & blues were North 1965–69 presented in 1962 the American Folk Blues presented for the first time. Festival. Only in 1965 with the first Spiritual This DVD edition will prove that the musical & Gospel Festival did they officially establish discoveries presented by Lippmann+Rau for Lippmann+Rau as concert agency. the first time as concert productions in Europe This DVD series LEGENDS of… pays homage were like the blues festivals not only very to the Lippmann+Rau festivals organized important for European beat and rock music CONTENT between 1965 and 1969, where in 1965 for the bands of the 60ties. They were as well the I | SPIRITUAL & GOSPEL FESTIVAL 1965 first time after the blues sensation another precursors of the so-called world music Tour Dates 5 musical discovery was made and offered to the movement of the 80ties. They helped to form public in the form of authentic flamenco gitano the musical taste and preferences of a whole The Festival 6 from Spain. In the same year spiritual & gospel generation and opened post-war Germany and The Video 7 music was also presented for the first time, other European countries to musical styles The Preacher * 10 followed by music from Brazil (1966), France from Spain and the Americas. It is interesting The Artists * 12 (Festival Chanson Paris 1966) and Argentina to note that African and Asian music was Gospel Music in Germany 16 (1967). In 1966 they brought American not at all on their checklists, despite Africa II | SPIRITUAL & GOSPEL FESTIVAL 1966 country music and folk. Some of these festivals being the mother of black music in both North Tour Dates 23 resulted in follow-up tours by artists such as and South-America, and Asian music the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, La Singla having made its first entrance into the western The Video 25 and the Robert Patterson Singers. world via the Beatles and their Indian The Gospel Message * 26 “Every new tour was a first step into brand- experience in the 1960s. The Artists * 29 new territory” remembers Fritz Rau. “We The curiosity of Horst Lippmann brought to Interview with Paul Arnold and Dorothy Norwood 33 weren’t the inventors of fried potatoes, but Europe encounters with—until then— III | FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLK & COUNTRY MUSIC 1966 we could produce delicious fried potatoes with unknown music and artists from north and Tour Dates 35 the help of those who knew the ingredients.” south. The music today is still present and the The Festival 36 Lippmann+Rau paid special attention to artists are legends. The Video 37 the music of the ghettos, to the sounds and Fritz Rau and Horst Lippmann split in 1989 language of underprivileged people. when Horst had to look after the family’s The Music * 39 The spectators, however, came from student business after his father had died. Horst The Artists * 40 and intellectual circles. Whoever could afford Lippmann passed away in 1997 and Fritz Rau Tracy Schwarz Reminiscences 44 it began to travel. At first it was Italy and first went into retirement only on his Bluegrass Music in Germany 49 then Spain too and then other countries. 75th birthday, but was soon back on stage CREDITS 52 Argentina and Brazil were as much out of the with many lectures from his autobiography * Texts from original programme-books with updated biographies normal person’s reach as the American “50 Years Backstage”. hinterland of country music. The festivals representing music from these areas did not come out as financial successes. Claus Schreiner 24 II | THE LEGENDS OF SPIRITUAL & GOSPEL 25

SPIRITUAL+GOSPEL FESTIVAL 1966 Duration: 46:37 RECORDED LIVE AT EPIPHANIES CHURCH IN MANNHEIM | FREUDENHEIM JANUARY 1966

1. Opening ENSEMBLE That Old Landmark W.H.Brewster BISHOP KELSEY & ENSEMBLE Sermon: Acts of the Apostles 2, 1-4 Shut Up In My Bones 4:07 2. THE HARMONIZING FOUR* Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 4:05 | Trad. 3. THE HARMONIZING FOUR* We’re Crossing Over 4:08 | Thomas Johnson 4. THE HARMONIZING FOUR** The Lord’s Prayer/Vaterunser 3:33 5. DOROTHY NORWOOD SINGERS He’s A Shelter (Jesus is a rock) 2:34 | Trad. 6. DOROTHY NORWOOD SINGERS The Failure Is Not In God, It’s In Me 2:33 | Trad. 7. DOROTHY NORWOOD SINGERS Searching 3:21 | Trad. 8. THE GOSPELAIRES*** Rest For The Weary 5:38 | Trad. 9. THE GOSPELAIRES*** I Feel The Spirit 3:36 | Trad 10. BISHOP KELSEY Sermon: Book of Revelation (6,17) 1:10 11. Finale In The Great In Morning, Halleluh 3:39 | Trad.

Leadsinger: *Ellis Johnson, **Lonnie Smith, ***Paul Arnold

TV PRODUCTION CAMERA & LIGHTS DIRECTOR of Südwestfunk Michael Ballhaus Horst Lippmann Baden Baden CAMERA % 1966 Südwestfunk Ulrich Burtin now: Südwestrundfunk Martin Hesse Inge Mutschler Werner Schwanninger SOUND Christian Dreyer EDITING Norbert Cwujdzinski