Black gospel music emerged early in this century from the potent mix of blues, spirituals, ragtime, and shape-note. It has dominated black religious music and has had a symbiotic relationship with black secular music. Like the blues, it produced an abundance of legends, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe of Cotton Plant, Arkansas, whose raw, bluesy style made her the hit of the Newport Jazz Festival in 1978; Clara Ward ("queen of the moaners") and the Ward Singers, who toured with Aretha Franklin's father; the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, whose ecstatic screaming style produced similar hysteria in the congregation; and the Dixie Hummingbirds, an influential, long-lived quartet who recorded with Paul Simon. North Carolina's Shirley Ceasar is one of today's leading gospel artists. The sample we chose comes from a Spirit Feel Records anthology, The Gospel Sound of Spirit Feel, which highlights Gospel's Golden Age, 1945-60. The artist is Professor J. Earle Hine, Gospel's first post-war male star, a master of improvisation and eliciting an ecstatic response from his fellow singers. Here he sings "Look for Me in Heaven" recorded live in 1948. (AU format) (Real Audio Format)