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Audio Recording Street preaching and singing near Wilson and Racine Avenues by Northside United Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Street preaching and singing near Wilson and Racine Avenues by Northside United Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

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Title

  • Street preaching and singing near Wilson and Racine Avenues by Northside United Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Names

  • Sandmel, Ben (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, July 16, 1977

Headings

  • -  Southerners (United States)
  • -  Songs
  • -  Music
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Songs
  • Music

Notes

  • -  Northside Pentacostal Church (Truman College), part 1
  • -  Part 1 of a 2-part recording of preaching and singing by Northside Pentecostal Church (1527 E. Edgewater) on the street near Harry S. Truman College, at W. Wilson and Racine Avenues in the Uptown neighborhood; the preaching and witnessing is largely directed at alcoholics and transients who habituate bars and a hotel in the neighborhood; the targets for evangelism included whites, Indians, and Spanish-speakers, but few African American (most who walked by seemed not in need of intervention); the leader and pastor was Bobby Goddard, as was Junior Zornes (Lawrence Edward Zornes Jr.) and his wife, Dolly, and their son Jerry, who helped hold the microphones; the lead singer and guitar player was Joann Bolen (from Beckley WV), with her 15-year-old son Charles, both had come to Chicago 9½ years ago; recorded on a stereo Nagra IV with a Sennheiser 802 hand-held microphone and a Sennheiser 402 on a stand; due to an error in tracing the cables, the fieldworker confused the inputs and much of these two recordings has the volume up on the hand-held mike while it is lying on the ground some distance from the action, and thus the recording is of inferior fidelity; the first segment of this recording is monaural and includes Bobby Goddard with a short introduction; the hymn: "When the Roll is Called up Yonder”; discussion by Goddard (whose public address system microphone is producing feedback); hvmn "We'll be Called to Meet Him in the Air”; Goddard remarks on meeting the Lord; hymn "Soon Comes the Judgement Day,” also audible is the sound of a sinner being prayed over, kneeling in front of the singers; the second segment of this recording is in stereo, with the left channel silent or at very low levels; right channel carries the voice of an older man preaching, with the hymn "In that Beautiful Citv of Gold" in the background; hymn "I searched for Him . . . He filled that longing in my soul,” during this hymn, the left channel (?) is heard at high volume; next segment, on the left is the sound of a sinner being prayed over while on the right there is testimony from a man from West Virginia and a woman, about family problems, while in the background an inebriated man complains that the service has woken him up; hymn “ . . . to be sanctified” begins on left and right channels but the level on the rights drops off; on the next segment, there is preaching on the left channel, may be Junior Zornes, then the hymn “I can’t help what others do . . .”; then Goddard’s main sermon with the text from Proverbs 16:25; recording continues with better audio on the left and poor audio on the right; the sermon continues on part 2.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20780
  • MBRS Shelflist: RXA 1077
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T256-R

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Sandmel, Ben, and Carl Fleischhauer. Street preaching and singing near Wilson and Racine Avenues by Northside United Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20780/.

APA citation style:

Sandmel, B. & Fleischhauer, C. (1977) Street preaching and singing near Wilson and Racine Avenues by Northside United Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20780/.

MLA citation style:

Sandmel, Ben, and Carl Fleischhauer. Street preaching and singing near Wilson and Racine Avenues by Northside United Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20780/>.