![]() ![]() “You figure out how to save it,” he said, according to Darden. Royce confessed he didn’t know much about gospel music, but the opinion piece had convinced him that preserving it was a worthwhile endeavor. Soon after publishing the op-ed, Darden was contacted by an investment banker named Charles Royce. ![]() “It would be a sin.” The Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, released this album of civil rights music in 1962. ![]() “It would be more than a cultural disaster to forever lose this music,” Darden wrote. It was getting harder and harder to track down LPs of popular artists like the Soul Stirrers (who at one time featured a young Sam Cooke), to say nothing of 45s from largely obscure groups like the Gospel Kings of Portsmouth, Virginia. He wrote that innumerable black gospel records, particularly from the “Golden Age” of the mid-1940s to the mid-70s, were at risk of being lost, whether because of damage or neglect. The current effort to preserve gospel recordings began in 2005, when Robert Darden, a journalism professor at Baylor, published an op-ed in The New York Times. ![]()
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