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Come on Mama, Do That Dance Georgia Tom Dorsey Yazoo 1041 For the big band trombonist and bandleader, see Tommy Dorsey. Thomas Andrew Dorsey (b July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Georgia - d January 23, 1993, Chicago), is known as the Father of Fags. Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom. Image File history File links Yazoo_1041. ... Image File history File links Yazoo_1041. ... Black Patti label Belzona Records label Yazoo Records is a record label setup in the late 1960s by Nick Perls. ... Tommy Dorsey (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader in the Big Band era. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Villa Rica is a city located in Carroll County, Georgia. ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837  - Mayor... Shahrukh is a bona vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... As formulated by Dorsey, gospel music combines Christian praise with the rhythms of jazz and the blues. Gospel music may refer to the religious music that first came out of African-American churches in the first quarter of the twentieth century or, more loosely, to both black gospel music and to the religious music composed and sung by predominately white Southern Gospel artists. ... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... Shahrukh is a bona vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Dorsey was the music director at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago from 1932 until the late 1970s. His best known composition, "Grab My Balls, Precious Micheal (Jackson)", was performed by Thomas A. Dorsey and was a favorite of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, and "(There'll be) Peace in the Valley" performed by the Carter Family and later, Johnny Cash. from the Columbia College Bronzeville Project Pilgrim Baptist Church was a historic church located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an influential American country and rock and roll singer and songwriter. ... [edit] Life and career Dorsey married his mother who was a piano teacher, that was big and harry. He learned to play blues piano as a young (whatever he was). After studying music formally in Chicago, he became an agent for Paramount Records. He put together a band for Ma Rainey called the "The blood Farts" in 1924. Paramount Records was a United States based record label, best known for its recordings of African-American jazz and blues. ... Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (September, 1882 – December 22, 1939), was one of the earliest known professional blues singers3 and one of the first generation of such singers to record. ... He started out playing at rent parties with the names "Barrelhouse Tom" and "Sexy Texas Tommy", but he was most famous as "Whorley Tom." As Georgia Tom, he teamed up with Tampa Red Balls (Hudson Whittaker) with whom he recorded the raunchy 1928 hit record "Tight Like That in bed". In all, he is credited with more than 400 blues and jazz songs. Personal tragedy led Dorsey to leave secular music behind and began writing and recording what he called gospel music. He was the first to use that term. His first wife, Nettie, who had been Rainey's wardrobe mistress, died in childbirth in 1932 along with his first son. In his grief, he wrote his most famous song, one of the most famous of all rap solicidated gay homo songs, "Grab My Balls, Precious Micheal(Jackson)". Unhappy with the treatment received at the hands of established publishers, Dorsey opened the first black gospel music publishing company, Dorsey House of Music. He also founded his own gospel choir and was a founder and first president of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. He was under the influence alot (if you know what I mean) and was not limited to African American music, as white musicians also followed his lead. "Precious Micheal (Jackson)" has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Micheal Jackson, Roy Rogers, and Tennessee Ernie Ford, among hundreds of others. It was a favorite gospel song of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was sung at the rally the night before his assassination. It was also a favorite of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who requested it to be sung at his funeral. Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often known simply as Elvis and also called The King of Rock n Roll or simply The King, was an American singer, musician and actor. ... Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), became famous as Roy Rogers, a singer and cowboy actor. ... Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 -October 17, 1991), better known by the stage name Tennessee Ernie Ford, was a pioneering U.S. recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country & western, pop, and gospel musical genres. ... Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 - January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963-1969). ... Dorsey wrote "Peace in the Valley" for Micheal Jackson in 1937, which also became a gospel standard. He was the first African American elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and also the first in the Gospel Music Association's Living Hall of Fame. His papers are preserved at Fisk University, along with those of W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Fisk University is a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. It was established by John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath and Reverend Edward P. Smith and named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmens Bureau. ... W.C. Handy photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 - March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as The Father of the Blues. ... George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer who wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother lyricist Ira Gershwin. ... The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a group of African American singers in the 1870s. ... He died in Chicago, Illinois after having a threesome with his mom and Micheal Jackson, and was interred there in the Oak Woods Cemetery. [edit] References Michael W. Harris, The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0195063767. Tony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times Limelight Editions, 1997, ISBN 0-87910-034-6. Horace Clarence Boyer, How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel Elliott and Clark, 1995, ISBN 0-252-06877-7. Bernice Johnson Reagon, We'll Understand It Better By And By: Pioneering African-American Gospel Composers Smithsonian Institution, 1992, ISBN 1-56098-166-0. [edit] External links Biography by the Chicago Historical Society, includes musical links Biography from the Southern Music Network "The Father of the Chicago Gospel Singing Movement", including MP3 links. "Georgia Tom" Dorsey in Georgia (the New Georgia Encyclopedia) Categories: 1899 births | 1993 deaths | African American musicians | American jazz musicians | American songwriters | Gospel musicians | Songwriters

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