Pace Jubilee Singers Explained

Pace Jubilee Singers
Genre:	Gospel
Years Active:	192529
Label:	Brunswick, Victor

The Pace Jubilee Singers were a gospel group founded by Charles Henry Pace in Chicago in 1925, and one of the first gospel groups to be recorded. They recorded more than 40 songs for Victor and for Brunswick Records in 192629, including spirituals arranged by Pace, and songs and hymns by Pace and Charles Albert Tindley and others. They performed in close harmony style, usually accompanied by piano or organ. Thomas A. Dorsey was briefly associated with them. In their later recordings, Hattie Parker is identified as soloist.^[1]

Recordings

• 1926"My Lord What a Morning" / "I'm Going Through with Jesus" 10" 78rpm single Victor 20225 ^{[2] [3]}
• 1926"My Lord's Writing All the Time" / "I Do, Don't You?" 10" 78rpm single Victor 20226
• 1926"Gonna Reap What You Sow" / "Everybody's Gotta Walk That Lonesome Valley" 10" 78rpm single Victor 20310
• 1927"We Will Walk thru the Valley of Peace" / "Is It Well with Your Soul Today?" 10" 78rpm single Brunswick 7001 ^[4]
• 1927"His Eye Is on the Sparrows" / "Walk in the Light of God" 10" 78rpm single Brunswick 7008
• 1927"Lawdy Won't You Come By Home" / "My Lord Will Deliver" 10" 78rpm single Brunswick 7009
• 1927"Shouting On" / "Oh Death" 10" 78rpm single Victor 20813 ^{[5] [6]}
• 1927"I'll Journey On" / "All the Way" 10" 78rpm single Victor 20947
• 1927"Ride On Jesus" / "Heav'n" unreleased
• 1928"Stand by Me" / "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" 10" 78rpm single Victor 21551 ^[7]
• 1928"Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" / "When the Saints Go Marching In" 10" 78rpm single Victor 21582
• 1928"What a Friend We Have In Jesus" / "Nothing Between" 10" 78rpm single Victor 21655
• 1928"Seek and You Shall Find" / "My Lord's Going to Move This Wicked Race" 10" 78rpm single Victor 21705
• 1928"Old Time Religion" 10" 78rpm single Victor 22097-B ^[8]
• 1928"Every Time I Feel Spirit" / "I'm Going to Do All I Can" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38018 ^[9]
• 1929"A Little Talk with Jesus" / "Like Is Like a Mountain Railroad" ^[10]
• 1929"I'm Going Through Jesus" / "What a Friend We have in Jesus" 10" single Victor 23363 (re-releases)
• 1929"I've Done My Work" / "My Task" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38501
• 1929"Steal Away and Pray" / "The Haven of Rest" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38511
• 1929"It Pays to Serve Jesus" / "It's a Precious Thing" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38522
• 1929"No Night There" / "In That City" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38543
• 1929"It Is Well with My Soul" / "Holy Ghost with Light Divine" 10" 78rpm single Victor 23412 ^[11]
• 1929"Holy Ghost with Light Divine" / "Cryin' Holy unto the Lord" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38573
• 1929"I Can't Stay Away" / "Walk with Me" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38591
• 1929"Roll Jordan Roll" / "Throw Out the Lifeline" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38622
• 1929"What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?" / "Jesus Is a Rock in the Weary land" 10" 78rpm single Victor 38631
• 1929"You Got to Run, Run, Run" / "Old Time Religion" 10" 78rpm single Bluebird B-5811 ^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Charles Henry Pace Gospel Music Collection . . September 5, 2015 .
2. Web site: Victor 2000020500 . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .
3. Web site: Pace Jubilee Singers (Vocal group) 1926 . ucsb.edu . September 5, 2015 .
4. Web site: Brunswick 7000 Series Numerical Listing . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .
5. Web site: Victor 2050021000 . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .
6. Web site: Pace Jubilee Singers (Vocal group) 192729 . ucsb.edu . August 16, 2015 .
7. Web site: Victor 2150022000 . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .
8. Web site: Victor 2200022500 . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .
9. Web site: Victor V-38000 series: Numerical Listing . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .
10. Web site: Victor 2300023500 . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015.
11. Web site: Charles Henry Pace (arranger) . ucsb.edu . September 5, 2015 .
12. Web site: BLUEBIRD numerical listings 55006000 . 78discography.com . September 5, 2015 .