I always thought that was Twinkie leading but now... 40 years later... I can tell that it's a different voice. Still Beautiful & Anointed!🙏🏿🙌🏿

what did i stumble into

Thank you Lord Jesus for blessing us with the Hawkins family ☝💜💜💜

The intro! Classic!!!

omg guy's it's diggy 3

so cute

I love this song and the intro is amazing!!

At first I thought It was Shirley Murdock. She was cogic before she went rnb

did Twinkie write this song

I love how Twinkie makes it sound at the concert on the organ in the beginning

Oh What A Great Choir Master! Dr Mattie Moss Clark And Her Gifted daughters! God Bless Them!

@syngsational Amen!

The lead is Pat Johnson from Flint, MI.

@musicismythang1 No the Leads name is one that is strang to remember Patricial _______ here last name is strange but I now it is not Betty I have this Album on wax and it is in storage at the moment but like you I thought it was Betty Nelson when I first heard it years ago until I read the back of the album

Gospel needs to back to this. Today you don't get the sounds of the Hawkins , the Tommies, clark sisters. These groups set the standerd for the morden gospel sound. now it's all about talking over the song and doing all that crap.

RIP

rip bishop!!

I pray that you Rest In Peace Bishop Walter Hawkins! My condolences to the Love Center Ministries for the loss of your brother in faith!

RIP Bishop Hawkins

Play Twinkie Play I love this song they don't make songs like this anymore Scripture through and through lol I Love This Whole LP Thanks For Posting It

I know of people who DON"T do all the riffing and running and still don't have God's anointing when they sing. I find that most people who complain about this vocal strength are the people who CAN"T do it. A person should want to be anointed regardless as to whether they can do this or not.

You and I are no better than the rest. However, at some point, we have to allow the Spirit of God to move upon us and be set free. If a person is not there yet, then we should help to strenghen them.

Right, there is no excuse. Just because you understood then that asking for forgiveness didn't equal repentance, doesn't mean that others do now. As well, we shouldn't be surprised that people are more bold now. We are closer to the return of Christ, so yes, the devil is going to come harder. There are people consciously following God that have plenty of issues. We all do.

I think riffing and running can get crazy at times, but it's just a trend for the time, as was back then, there were musical trends for that particular time.

Yes - God is a God of love...I think sometimes the "religious" attitude is when we WANT to see people suffer for their sin, instead of being delivered. We'd rather see them get in trouble with God, and then we'll say, "See, I told you they weren't saved..." That way, we make ourselves look more spiritual than we are.

deatha44 - I respect your statement. Yes, there are some people who are not serious about serving God. However, we ALL have practised what is contrary to God at some point in our lives. We all have a race to run, and that not without trials, mistakes, hangups, etc. Righteousness was promoted then, but let's be honest - much of the same things were going on back then. Some people just didn't get caught!

there are DEFINITLEY subtle lessons to be learned from this music for any intelligent musician or singer...

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!!!

You gotta realize that, in different regions of the US, gospel music sounds different...in the respects that some artists are influenced by jazz, blues, country, classical, etc...but the same result MUST be that the music has a basis to draw peope closer to a relationship w/ God. Gospel music makes its mark into American history as being one of the influential music genres that transcends from a Christian audience into the secular music charts, so we, must be doing something right <3

U said it! It's fine if u can do vocal acrobatics, but just be ANOINTED about it! The Hawkins singers didn't do much of that, they just stood flat foot and SANG! Their songs were so indepth and wordy and meaningful. It penetrated your very soul!

Classic...

I love Twinkie's intro on this number. It is great...

Thank-you for these favorites from the Hawkins family, I still remember the words to most of those songs.

Truth!! They were ahead of their time, today's folk are almost carbon copies of them, with LITTLE to NO anointing.

OMG idf you can't get ewitht he Hawkins sound and then something is wrong. That whole movement in those days, Andre Crouch, The Clark Sisters. They made music that is timeless. Music today fits its time period and probably will not have the abilty to transcend like the music of old. Technology wasn't needed to create there sound unlike artist of today. Just the anointing

that is so true!

It is, but folk sleep on still sleep on them after all these years. Partially because they don't do countless riffs and runs and acrobatics with their voice, which is okay. But alot of times the MESSAGE and VALUE of the song gets lost amidst all the vocal tricks.

I know right! I would buy it for sure!! The Hawkins family rock!

Really?! How can you not get the sound of perfection?!?! Their sound is the bomb!

Well, thankya! :-)

AAAAAAMMMMEEEENNNN! Well said! Well put!

Alot of folks down play the Hawkins because they can't get with their sound. One must be at a particular level of gospel musci apprecition to truly FEEL their music!

NEVER ALONE IS POSTED! THANX 4 ASKING!

I have this CD, somebody stole my album. Best UNAC 5 in my opinion.....

omg all this time i thought this was twinkie going off like that

i listen to this everyday!

I love the lyrics!!!

yea i think carol's (in the middle) the prettiest too .

Well, I think they are all attractive people, but Lynette and Carol are pretty in addition to Tramaine.

That does sound like Pat.