The Fairfield Four - Best of: 1927-60 (CD)

The Fairfield Four are perhaps one of the six most significant jubilee quartets to come to prominence in the Southlands during the 1940s, although their genesis lies way back in the '20s when three of the original line-up sang together in a church choir in Nashville. Coming to prominence through radio exposure, the group became national celebrities, their exaggerated emotional style appealing to a broad audience, and enabling them to tour extensively, leading inevitably to a recording contract. This collection presents selected tracks from their singles released from the start of their recording career in 1946 through to 1954, when there was a significant change in the group's line-up with the departure of Rev Sam McCrary. It is a fine showcase for their distinctive style, and represents some of the best and most popular gospel music of that era, which was a heyday for the genre, as with other groups the gospel quartets paved the way for the doowop boom of the '50s.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Who Stole My Old Shoes
2. Better Leave That Liar Alone
3. Don't You Want to Join That Number
4. Where Shall I Go
5. Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
6. Standing in the Safety Zone
7. When I Get Up in Heaven
8. Amazing Grace
9. Canaan Land
10. I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About
11. You've Got to Move
12. Just One Moment in God's Kingdom
13. Dig a Little Deeper in God's Love
14. Just a Little Talk with Jesus
15. Lift Him Up
16. Three of Level
17. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
18. Ezekiel
19. Roll All Burdens Away
20. Saviour Don't Pass Me By
21. In the Wilderness
22. Let Me Tell You About Jesus
23. In the Upper Room
24. I'll Tell the World

Disc: 2

1. Don't Drive Your Children Away
2. Does Jesus Care
3. Nobody to Depend on
4. No Room at the Inn
5. On My Journey Now
6. Love Is Like a River
7. Don't Drive Her Away
8. Come on to This Altar
9. Waiting for Me
10. Angels Watching
11. I'm in Your Care
12. Let's Go
13. All the Way
14. I'll Be Satisfied
15. Who Is That Knocking
16. His Eye Is on the Sparrow
17. How I Got Over
18. This Evening Our Father
19. Stand By Me
20. Hear Me When I Pray
21. Standing on the Rock
22. When the Battle Is Over
23. Somebody Touched Me