Sounds Of Soul on Top-flight (2)

Sounds Of Soul
Lead Selma Kirkendall

37457 - Don't Move The Mountain

37458 - What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Top-Flight Records
2365 Pennsylvania St.
Gary, Indiana 46407

1976

Lead singer Selma Kirkendall was born July 17, 1932 in Carruthersville, Missouri. Her family moved to Gary and she attended Roosevelt High School, graduating in 1950. She was a member of a female group, The Echoes of Eden, who recorded for Vee-Jay Records.

After her stint with the Echoes of Eden, Selma Kirkendall worked with another gospel group, the Belton Kirk Singers. In the 1970s and 1980s, she managed and sang with the Sounds of Soul. She also had a radio show on WWCA, where she was known as "The Gospel Lady."

Selma Kirkendall died in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

The Sounds of Soul were previously on the CLB label in 1970.




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Gales of Joy on CLB

GALES OF JOY
Lead : W. Crawford

RR-42190-A Trouble Will Be Over
RR-42190-B I Don't Want To Be Right

C.L.B. 2329 Ohio Street
Gary, Indiana

1982

HEAR BOTH SIDES

Gales of Joy
Gary Indiana
Members have included William Crawford, Otis Sibley, Benjamin H. Davis




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The Sounds Of Soul on Top-Flight

The Sounds Of Soul
Lead Selma Kirkendall

Top-Flight Records

2365 Pennsylvania St.
Gary, Indiana

40797 - That's How Strong God's Love Is
40798 - Shedrack, Meshack, Abednego

[ 1979 }

Sample

Picture & audio : tims-amazing-stuff (eBay, Dayton, OH)

C.L.B. label (four additions)

The Saints Of Glory Of Gary

16015 - Walk On By Faith Each Day (Lead : Bill Sumbry)
16016 - I Need Lord

Sounds Of Soul

25843 - Perfect Like The Angels---(Lead Selma Kirkendall)
25844 - Meeting In Glory

Gales Of Joy

42190-A Trouble Will Be Over (Lead W. Crawford)
42190-B I Don't Want To Be Right

The Saints Of Glory Of Gary

42192- A Searching For The Lord (Lead John Owens Jr. (Thumb))
42192-B The Storm Of Life

The Gospel Queens

The Gospel Queens

C.L.B.
Gary, Indiana

33345 – He Can Do Anything
Lead by Marguerite Ewell

33346 – Come To Jesus
Lead Catherine Freeman

Marguerite Ewell was born in a small town in Southwest, Louisiana, called Paincourtville. At an early age she exhibited a singing talent and was given many opportunities to perform in family circles and at school where she was selected as the main soloist throughout her studies. When she was still a young girl her family organized a group called the JONES SINGERS, which included her mother, aunts and uncles.

She attended W. H. Reed High School in Napoleonville, Louisiana from 1963 to 1968, when she migrated to Chicago where she continued her education by enrolling at Chicago State University. She was asked by the GOSPEL QUEENS (an all female gospel group) to join their group. She travelled with them throughout the USA. She met and married Lafayette GATLING Sr. who is lead singer for the famed quartet "The CHRISTLAND SINGERS".

In 1981, she was one of the founders of the INSPIRATIONAL CHARMS.

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