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The Meditation Singers was a Gospel music group formed by Ernestine Rundless in the late 1940s. The original members were Earnestine Rundless, DeLillian Mitchell, Marie Waters, and Waters sister, Deloreese Early, who is now known as Della Reese. Della Reese left the group in 1953 and was replaced by Laura Lee, Rundless's daughter. [1]
Delloreese Patricia Early, known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". In the late 1960s she hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 197 episodes. From 1975 she also starred in films, playing opposite Redd Foxx in Harlem Nights (1989), Martin Lawrence in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Elliott Gould in Expecting Mary (2010). Reese achieved continued success in the religious television drama Touched by an Angel (1994–2003), in which she played the leading role of Tess.
Let's Rock is a 1958 rock and roll film starring Julius LaRosa as a crooner attempting to fight off the rival music rock and roll, Phyllis Newman as his songwriting girlfriend who convinces him to adapt rather than fight and Conrad Janis as LaRosa's manager. The film, another rock-exploitation film aimed at the teenage drive-in crowd, was produced and directed by Harry Foster and also features performances from the Tyrones, Paul Anka, Wink Martindale, Roy Hamilton, Danny & the Juniors and the Royal Teens.
Roma Downey is an actress, producer, and New York Times Best-Selling author from Derry, Northern Ireland. She recently produced the hit movie On a Wing and a Prayer starring Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham which shot to number one on Amazon prime when it premiered spring of 2023. For nine seasons she played Monica the angel in the CBS television series Touched by an Angel. She produced the mini-series The Bible for the History Channel and also appeared in it as Mary, mother of Jesus. She has performed on stage with the Abbey Theatre, The National Theatre of Ireland, and has appeared both on and off Broadway. She played the leading role of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Emmy award-winning miniseries A Woman Named Jackie for NBC.
Ghiselin Danckerts was a Dutch composer, singer, and music theorist of the Renaissance. He was principally active in Rome, in the service of the Papal Chapel, and was one of the judges at the famous debate between Nicola Vicentino and Vicente Lusitano in 1551.
Merry Clayton is an American soul and gospel singer. She provided a number of backing vocal tracks for major performing artists in the 1960s. Her most notable performance was a duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter". Clayton is prominently featured in 20 Feet from Stardom, the Oscar-winning documentary about background singers and their contributions to the music industry.
"Getting to Know You" is a show tune from the 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I. It was first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in the original Broadway production and later by Marni Nixon who dubbed for Deborah Kerr in the 1956 film adaptation. In the show, Anna, a British schoolteacher who has been hired as a governess, sings the song as she strikes up a warm and affectionate relationship with the children and the wives of the King of Siam.
"Who Can I Turn To?" (alternatively titled "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)") is a song written by English composer-lyricists Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and first published in 1964.
Maurice Sinclair, better known as his stage name Big Reese is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer, who was a member of the trio P.A.
Laura Lee is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated women's experience.
Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984, to May 3, 1986.
Bloodline is the thirty-first studio album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1976.
Della, Della, Cha-Cha-Cha is an album by singer and actress Della Reese. It is an album of standards, performed with a cha-cha-cha rhythm and beat. The album was recorded in New York City in 1960, and it was conducted by O. B. Masingill.
Amen! is the second album by singer and actress Della Reese. The album was her second record for Jubilee Records, and her first of many records dedicated solely to sacred and spiritual material. The album features background vocals by the Meditation Singers, which she had been a part of in the early ’50s. The album also features vocals by the then unknown singer Laura Lee, who had incidentally replaced Reese in the group, when she left in 1953.
Della by Starlight is the seventh album by singer Della Reese, and her second for RCA Victor. After her success at Jubilee Records, and a million-seller hit with "And That Reminds Me", she switched to RCA, where she would go on to have her biggest hits "Don't You Know?" and "Not One Minute More".
"Not One Minute More" is a 1959 song and single by singer and actress Della Reese.
The Story of the Blues (1959) is an album by singer and actress Della Reese. It is a concept album about the history of the blues. Before each song, there is a small spoken narrative by Reese.
Della is an album by singer and actress Della Reese, her first for RCA Victor, after she left Jubilee Records in 1959. The album, produced by Hugo & Luigi, was one of her most successful. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1961.
Jay Cee Johnson, usually known as J. C. Johnson and in some sources, mistakenly, as James C. Johnson, was an American pianist and songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Fats Waller and Bessie Smith.
Della Reese At Basin Street East is a live album by Della Reese that was recorded and released in 1964.
This is a listing of official releases by American singer and actress Della Reese.
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