Precious Lord: Recordings of The Great Gospel Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oVcgrbeByo&list=OLAK5uy_nPUjhK-l8quMdFXktDT0oYomJmtm80stY

The final building block of Rock and Roll belongs to to the Black Church. Gospel music shaped America.

The AME has probably produced more Topp 100 hits than the Julliard could in a 100 centuries. When the commerical recording industry took off Thomas A Dorsey drove Gospel to new levels.

In fact the so called "Father of Gospel" became so poular recorded gospel songs were called Dorsey's for ahwile.