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Music World Gospel recording artist and 81 years old Elder Goldwire McLendon's new CD jumps this week to #7 from #22 on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums Chart....

At 81 years old, McLendon is the oldest American contemporary solo artist signed to a record deal.

A four-hour documentary on the history of Black spirituality in sermon and song, premieres on PBS and its digital channels February 12 and

Music World Gospel recording artist and 81 years old Elder Goldwire McLendon's new CD jumps this week to #7 from #22 on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums Chart.

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Joy and Praise: The McLendon legacy

In 1947, a teenaged Goldwire McLendon took the train alone from Jacksonville, where he was a tenor in a gospel quartet, up to Philadelphia. There he met his wife, Ruth Byrd, a seamstress and mezzo soprano, at church.

Ruth later co-founded The Savettes Choral Ensemble, a women-led singing group and savings club for home purchases and other self-reliance needs within the local spiritual community. The McLendons raised five children and traveled around the East Coast as members of The Savettes, achieving regional success as "Philadelphia's Own."

The period in America following World War II had awakened a golden age for gospel music.

Elder Goldwire McClendon had spent some 70 years ministering as a singer and preacher when he came to the public's attention as a contestant.

Urban centers became hotbeds of church activity that provided spiritual and material needs of their communities as more Black people migrated from the South. Local gospel was widespread, but the vast majority of acts like The Savettes had scant reputation beyond their own church or region.

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