This video traces Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s career and includes rare footage of her with the Lucky Millinder Orchestra in 1941, an appearance on a gospel TV show in the early 1960s, and a performance at a train station in England in 1964. Also, we recently discovered a rare publicity photo of Sister Rosetta in her late friend Abner Jay's archive. It can be viewed on our Instagram feed: http://bit.ly/sisterrosettainstagram | Dust-to-Digital
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On October 31, 1938, aged 23, Rosetta Tharpe recorded for the first time. She recorded "Rock Me," "That's All," "My Man and I" and "The Lonesome Road," which all became instant hits, establishing Tharpe as an overnight sensation and one of the first commercially successful gospel recording artists. During the 1940s-60s, Tharpe introduced the spiritual passion of her gospel music into the secular world of rock ’n’ roll, inspiring some of its greatest stars, including Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, J
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Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973. When she was asked about music in the late 1960s, she said, “Oh, these kids and rock and roll — that is just sped up rhythm and blues. I've been doing that forever.“ In April 2018, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. | Dust-to-Digital
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Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born on this day in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Her biographer, Gayle Wald, wrote that Sister Rosetta was ahead of her times not by years, but by decades. Here she is performing “Didn’t It Rain” in Manchester, England in 1964. | Dust-to-Digital
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