Various - One-derful Collection: Halo Records

Secret Stash Records - SSR354LP

Includes Digital Download

The fourth installment of the One-derful! Collection focuses Halo, the gospel imprint of this legendary R&B label group. Halo is preceded by the One-derful!, Mar-V-Lus, and M-Pac! compilations and will be followed by releases of the Midas and Toddlin' Town sub-labels. This series marks the first in-depth study of what was once one of Chicago's most prominent African-American run labels. Halo Records is available in 2xLP and CD formats, and within the grooves of these 24 tracks lie soulful songs from groups like the Salem Travelers, the Gospel Souls, Lucy Rodgers, and the Redemption Harmonizers, plus 9 tracks that were never issued! Halo's focus and determination was to make gospel music that secular ears could hear and enjoy. They were trying to make R&B gospel, and the main producer behind its aesthetic, Monk Higgins, later took this sound and had great success at Chess Records. Central to Halo is the Leaner family. In the early 1960s when brothers George and Ernie Leaner added the Halo sub-label to their One-derful! label, they were revered figures on Chicago's Record Row and beyond. They distributed material from labels like Motown and Stax and they attracted top talent. It wasn't uncommon for a WVON DJ to help the Leaners sign their newest discovery, or for their singers, musicians, songwriters, or producers to have Chess or Motown on their resumes.

Tracklisting:
The Salem Travelers - Wade In The Water
The Gospel Ambassadors - Send Your Cleansing Power
The Redemption Harmonizers - Amazing Grace*
Flying Clouds Of Joy - I Have Made A Change*
The Golden Tones (Featuring Dinision Gill) - Why Can't We Love Our Fellowman
Saints Of Glory - Wear A Crown*
The Daytonians - Keep Movin' Along
The Salem Travelers Featuring Little David - The Children Goin' Astray
The Gospel Souls - The Fire Keeps On Burning In My Heart Pt. 1 & 2
The Beautiful Tones - King Jesus Will Roll Your Burden Away*
The Redemption Harmonizers - Modern Messiah*
Flying Clouds Of Joy - This Little Light Of Mine*
Rev. Lofton & The Holy Travelers - Lord I Never Will Forget
The Gospel Souls - I've Been Saved
The Salem Travelers - I've Got A Feeling*
The Gospel Ambassadors - He Died For Me
The Daytonians - Mercy Lord
The Salem Travelers - Give Me A Few More Days
The Salem Travelers - Joy
The Salem Travelers - I Won't Let Nobody Turn Me Around
Heavenly Wonders - Jesus Is A Rock*
The Original Ensemble - Lord Deliver Me*
The Redemption Harmonizers - Why Do Men Treat The Lord As They Do
Lucy Rogers Singers - Man In The City (Pt. 1 & 2)

* Marks unreleased

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