This listing is for a rare factory sealed copy of the Hovie Lister & The Statesmen - "I Believe In Jesus" LP.

 

About the artist:

Formed in 1948 in Atlanta, GA, by piano player Hovie Lister, a Baptist minister and convention-style piano player with a flair for showmanship, "Brother Hovie" envisioned the group as a hand-picked cream-of-the-crop grouping. Hovie had been the pianist for the Sand Mountain Quartet in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

On July 4, 1955, the Blackwood/Statesmen team traveled to Texas for an engagement that would feature several secular artists on the same program. Among them was Elvis Presley. Elvis was planning to sing his rock hits, but refrained out of respect of his gospel idols, the Statesmen and Blackwoods. The Statesmen exerted a powerful influence on young Elvis Presley, who idolized and imitated Jake Hess' vocal stylings and Big Chief's leg shaking. In an interview with songwriter Bill Gaither, Hess remembered seeing young Elvis coming to Statesmen shows in Tupelo when Presley was only nine or ten. Hess said that the serious young Elvis would ask him, "How do you make a record?" or "How many suits you got?" On the Gaither Homecoming video "Oh My Glory", Jake Hess tells about Elvis coming to Statesmen concerts and being invited up on stage to sing lead in place of Jake on a song or two.

 

This album is on the "Chime Records" label.

Record # CH 603

The cover has a corner cut off.

 

Song list

Side 1

1. I Believe In Jesus

2. Why Me, Lord??

3. Do You Understand?

4. No One But The Lord

5. When He Calls, I'll Fly Away

 

Side 2

1. Roll Back River Jordan

2. After Calvary

3. I'm Depending On Jesus

4. Since Then

5. That's Enough

 

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