Marie Knight (June 1, 1925 – August 30, 2009) was an
American gospel and R&B singer.
She was born Marie Roach was born June 1, 1925, in Brooklyn,
N.Y. and raised in Newark, N.J. When she was 5, her parents lifted her up on a
table during a church service to sing "Doing All the Good We Can." By
9, she was a soloist in her church youth choir and taught herself to play
piano. With a voice that one recent
reviewer described as "a natural
wonder, an unadorned, powerful instrument," Knight began her career
touring the national gospel circuit as a singer in 1939 with evangelist Frances
Robinson.
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On Dec. 25, 1941, she married Albert Knight, a Corpus
Christi, Tex., preacher, after a four-day romance. They divorced eight years
later, because Ms. Knight said she was more interested in a musical career than
being a preacher's wife.
In 1946, she made her first recordings, for Signature
Records, as a member of The Sunset Four. Shortly afterwards, Sister Rosetta
Tharpe saw her singing at the Golden Gate Auditorium in Harlem, on a bill with
Mahalia Jackson, and invited Knight to join her on tour. Tharpe recognized
"something special" in Marie's contralto voice. Knight continued to
record and perform with Tharpe through the 1940s, sometimes acting out the
parts of "the Saint and the Sinner", with Tharpe as the saint and
Knight as the sinner.
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Among their successes were the songs "Beams of
Heaven", "Didn't it Rain", and "Up Above My Head",
recorded for Decca Records. "Up Above My Head", credited jointly to
both singers, reached # 6 on the US R&B chart at the end of 1948, and
Knight's solo version of "Gospel Train" reached # 9 on the R&B
chart in 1949. It was during that same year Marie’s two children and Ms.
Knight's mother, were killed in a Newark fire in 1949 while Marie was touring
in California with Tharpe.
She left Tharpe to go solo around 1951, and put together a
backing
group, The Millionaires (Thomasina Stewart, Eleonore King and Roberta
Jones), with whom she recorded the 1956 album Songs of the Gospel. She also
began recording secular R&B music in the late 1950s, for various labels
including Decca, Mercury, Baton, Okeh, Diamond and Addit. Her duet with Rex
Garvin, credited as Marie & Rex, "I Can't Sit Down" released on
the Carlton label, reached # 94 on the pop chart in 1959.
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In the late 1950s she also toured Britain as a guest of
Humphrey Lyttelton. In 1961 she recorded the single "Come Tomorrow",
which was later a hit for Manfred Mann.
Knight's version of "Cry Me a
River" reached # 35 on the U.S. Billboard R&B charts in 1965. She
toured with Brook Benton, the Drifters, and Clyde McPhatter, and regularly
reunited onstage with Rosetta Tharpe. She remained friends with Tharpe, and
helped arrange her funeral in 1973.
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In 2002, Knight made a comeback in the gospel world,
recording for a tribute album to Tharpe. In 2007, M.C. Records released
Knight's first full-length recording in more than two decades, the critically
acclaimed "Let Us Get Together," featuring the gospel songs of the
Rev. Gary Davis, with Larry Campbell, a guitarist who has toured extensively
with Bob Dylan, playing all of the stringed instruments. Reviewers praised her
powerful and spirit-lifting vocals.
During January 2009, a month before Knight developed
pneumonia, she and her manager Carpentieri were recording an interview for the
BBC in New York City. Knight was as vibrant as ever, saying to Carpentieri,
"Mark, when are you going to get me some work?"
She died at a nursing home in Harlem in New York City of
complications from pneumonia, on August 30, 2009. She was 84. (Info mainly from
Wikipedia)
3 comments:
For “The Story of Marie Knight” go here:
http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/62466643/file.html
01 To Be Loved By You
02 Come On Baby Hold My Hand
03 Make Yourself At Home
04 Come Tomorrow
05 A Little Too Lonely
06 Calvary
07 I Don't Want To Walk Alone
08 I'm The Little Fooler
09 Look At Me
10 As Long As I Love
11 Tell Me Why
12 September Song
13 Grasshopper Baby
14 I Thought I Told You Not To Tell Him
15 That's No Way To Treat A Girl
16 You Lie So Well
17 I Was Born Again
18 Nothing In The World
19 What Kind Of Fool
20 Hope You Won't Hold It (Against Me)
21 Am I Reaching For The Moon
22 God Spoke To Me
23 Miracles
24 Stand The Storm
25 I Can't Sit Down
26 Cry Me A River
27 Comes The Night
28 That's No Way To Treat A Girl (Extended version)
A big thank you to Jake @ Jukebox City blog for active link.
Repost, pretty please with sugar on top?
Hello MG, I had a good search for this, but alas cannot find it anywhere. I have however, got this CD which has most of the tracks on it.
FOR “GOSPEL TRAIN - THE MARIE KNIGHT STORY” GO HERE:
https://www.upload.ee/files/14061965/Marie_Knight.rar.html
1. I'LL LET NOTHIN' SEPARATE ME FROM THE LORD [with The Sunset Four]
2. PRECIOUS MEMORIES [with Sister Rosetta Tharpe & The Sam Price Trio]
3. UP ABOVE MY HEAD (I Hear Music In The Air) [with Sister Rosetta Tharpe & The Sam Price Trio]
4. MY JOURNEY TO THE SKY [with Sister Rosetta Tharpe & The Sam Price Trio]
5. GOSPEL TRAIN [with The Dependable Boys & The Sam Price Trio]
6. SATISFIED WITH JESUS [with The Sensational Nightingales]
7. I JUST CAN'T KEEP FROM CRYIN'
8. THIS OLD SOUL OF MINE
9. SING AND SHOUT [with Sister Rosetta Tharpe]
10. TROUBLE IN MIND [with The Sam Price Trio]
11. STAND THE STORM [with Sister Rosetta Tharpe]
12. WHO ROLLED THE STONE AWAY [with The Sam Price Trio]
13. TELL ME WHY [with The Griffins]
14. AS LONG AS I LOVE [with The Griffins]
15. BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD [with The Millernaires]
16. STAND BY ME [with The Millernaires]
17. GRASSHOPPER BABY
18. LOOK AT ME
19. I'M THE LITTLE FOOLER [with Howard Biggs & His Orch]
20. I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL THEM [with the Teacho Wiltshire Orchestra]
21. SEPTEMBER SONG [with the Teacho Wiltshire Orchestra]
22. I CAN'T SIT DOWN [with Rex Garvin]
23. MIRACLES
24. HOPE YOU WON'T HOLD IT AGAINST ME
25. TO BE LOVED BY YOU
26. COME TOMORROW
27. NOTHING IN THE WORLD
28. COME ON BABY (Hold My Hand)
29. WHAT KIND OF A FOOL (Do You Think I Am)
30. I WAS BORN AGAIN
31. I DON'T WANNA WALK ALONE
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