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    Thomas A. Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview: Genesis of Black Gospel Music
    Thomas A. Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview: Genesis of Black Gospel Music
    Thomas A. Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview: Genesis of Black Gospel Music
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    Thomas A. Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview: Genesis of Black Gospel Music

    By Robert L. Taylor

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    Mr. Thomas Andrew Dorseys telephone number was given to the writer of this newly released book by the name Thomas A. Dorsey, Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview by a directory assistance operator in Chicago, Illinois. The writer, at the time (1975), took a chance and called, not expecting the first publisher of black gospel music to answer the phone. A very hoarse voice said Hello, and the writer recognized it immediately as being the voice he had heard on a recording about gospel music that Mr. Dorsey had done. After being asked if he would consent to being interviewed, Mr. Dorsey unenthusiastically said yes. He was unenthusiastic, the writer later discovered, because fortune hunters and status seekers had been plaguing him for interviews. Honored that Mr. Dorsey had said yes, the writer took a train from Kansas City, Missouri, to Chicago to interview this man who had written hundreds of songs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 9, 2014
    ISBN9781490722368
    Thomas A. Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview: Genesis of Black Gospel Music
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    Robert L. Taylor

    R.L Taylor is Professor of the Graduate School at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Awarded the Daniel C. Drucker Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2005, the Gauss-Newton Award and Congress Medal by the International Association for Computational Mechanics in 2002, and the Von Neumann Medal by the US Association for Computational Mechanics in 1999.

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      Thomas A. Dorsey Father of Black Gospel Music an Interview - Robert L. Taylor

      THOMAS A. DORSEY FATHER OF

      BLACK GOSPEL MUSIC

      AN INTERVIEW

      Genesis of Black Gospel Music

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      ROBERT L. TAYLOR

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      Copyright 2013 Robert L. Taylor.

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Introduction

      The Interview

      Chronological List Copyright Dates Of Thomas Andrew Dorsey’s Music

      Bibliography

      AddendumT.a.d. Selected Published Songs

      Photos And Memorial Services Contributed

      Memorial Services         Year 1993

      Acknowledgements

      Endnotes

      Preface

      Thomas A. Dorsey—not to be confused with the white band leader of the same name—was born in Villa Rica, Georgia, in 1899. The eldest son of an itinerate Baptist preacher, Mr. Dorsey enthusiastically spoke to the writer of this paper of his travels with his father. We went to many places. I got to know a little more about that life than the average person… that’s when I first began to get to know people—what I mean is know the inside of people, musically and all other ways.

      When Dorsey moved from Atlanta to Chicago, he picked up the name of Georgia Tom.

      Georgia Tom had blues in his mind as well as in his hands and feet, says Arna Bontemps.¹. He had composed Ma Rainey’s popular theme music ‘Rain on the ocean / Rain on the deep blue sea’ as well as scores of other blues. If the blues idiom meant anything to you, he was your boy.².

      Within two years, Georgia Tom was able to turn a Saturday night stomp upside down with his playing. In those days, however, Dorsey had more on his mind than playing piano. For one thing, there was a girl.³. When she looked at Tom he felt like a boy dazzled by the sun. Then, quite suddenly, her family moved to Birmingham, carrying the daughter with them. It broke Tom’s heart.⁴. In his mood… ambition was born.⁵.

      First he tried, with such local help as he could get, to teach himself harmony, composition, instrumentation, and arranging. He went to work at the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, which made the wages of a Georgia Stomp musician look sick. The steel mill all but did his thin 128-pound body in, but he kept at it until he could get a five-piece orchestra together.⁶.

      This orchestra marked the beginning of Georgia Tom. It gave him piano practice and it enabled him to earn money by playing for parties in the steel mill communities of Gary and South Chicago. It provided exercise in the making of band arrangements and piano scores, and it left time for

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