Stephen Neale is your host tonight and features selected cuts from I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label 1951-1983. This 4-CD set features, as the title describes, electrifying gospel music from this Nashville-based label. Put together by the Tompkins Square team, the same group responsible for the equally impressive 3CD sets of Fire in my Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherwordly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) and This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM (1957-1982); they have exceeded themselves with this compilation which is accompanied with a strong set of liner notes that strikes the right balance on detail.
The four discs are titled as follows:
- Disc One: Looking for a Better Place to Live (1951-1957)
- Disc Two: Seat in the Kingdom (1958-1963)
- Disc Three: Don't Drive Your Children Away (1964-1967)
- Disc Four: Heaven, I've Heard So Much About It (1968-1983)
| Since Jesus Came into My Heart (1951) Silvertone Jubilee Singers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records 
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| I'm Battling (1958) Sensational Propheteers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Wait on the Lord (1964) Bonita Cantrell - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Free at Last (1968) Ethel Davenport - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| There Must be a City (1954) Skylarks - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Milky White Way (1959) The CBS Trumpeteers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Troubled Mind (1964) The Williams Singers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Heaven, I've Heard So Much About It (1968) Dorothy Love Coates & the Gospel Harmonettes - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| I've Got Heaven on my Mind (1955) Blair Gospel Singers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Love Deep Down in Your Heart (1961) Gospel Five Singers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Nobody But You, Lord (1965) Six Trumpets - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Wrapped up, Tied Up, Tangled Up (1970) Rev. Cleophus Robinson - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| I've Been Born Again (1955) Spiritual Five - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Farther Down the Road (1963) Traveling Kings - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| Don't Drive Your Children Away (1967) The Fairfield Four - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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| He Brought Joy to my Soul (1976) Pilgrim Jubilee Singers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records
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