Albert Hadley And New Orleans Gospel Soul Children singing If It Had Not Been

[@drucillathomas1240]

MY FAVORITE CHOIR of ALL TIMES!!

[@dexzion]

I can feel the presence of God so heavy as I watch this video! This reminds me of when I was a lil boy in the Baptist church. Those type of songs had power. Simple but yet profound. I love it and will do all I can to fuse the old with the new. dex (zm)

[@Houseofmaxx9]

Best Gospel Video Ever Done By Children ( NOT KIDS) I Ever Seen ! ! ! Blessings ! King Maxx

[@BouncingNCash]

Thank Mr. Hadley, from one of your really bad students at Thomas Alva Edison in the lower 9th Ward. You loved us to perfection

[@tyronthornton5745]

i was in Edison's choir when he first started in 1981 until I graduated from 6th grade in 1983.

[@steven2312]

My god my god!!! this by Far the best Soul children concert I ever heard!!!!

[@pocketdrummer84]

my my my!!! thats the real soul chilldren there!!!! man, i love the old songs of the church!!!

[@Ms504girl]

Look at the EYES on the sooooo intense . I love it

[@Msthankful2010]

Thank you for these postings...I was in the audience and there every 2nd Sunday night of course Hadley ask me to sing and it was a privilege ....you guys were so nice to me...inspiring...BEST COMMUNITY CHOIR AND BST DIRECTOR IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!

[@girlbay1232]

They had their reunion two months ago ... it was so awesome. I wish that was on youtube.

[@jbyrd810]

Ol' skool baptist shoutin' right there! lol

[@coolh2oh]

@dartord I was raised baptist, and indeed this is one of those old school, hold 'em down, shouts. The kind that used to scare children... you just weren't sure what was going to happen next. They don't do that much these days. This is back when we just shouted maybe once a month-- I think it would be all bottled up, then the holy ghost would take over.

[@jholyghosthead]

lawd look at karen breland, ebby, pam thomas, troy squire, leonard ransom, mark lawless, louis steward, charles cook, felecia breland and sooooo many other people i havent seen in ages! wow! i remember when they first made this tape for channel 12 in 1982 thanks for posting!

[@hammondman94]

That's a good old shout there!!!!

[@bayouboy97]

Classic, I'm so glad you posted this. I wish we had a few recent videos on here as well. GSC for life!

[@kathrinekerns8398]

Holy Spirit moving all through this church. Amen.

[@humble80]

Love this song! 🙌🏾🙏🏽

[@athorpe630]

Very powerful.

[@vernestercanty8884]

Thank you 10JLB for the wonderful videos and music memories. I love walking down memory lane. Now this is what I call having church!

[@WBFbySteefen]

@steven2312 I used to go to the Albert Hadley Soul Children concerts, I'd say approximately 1974 to 1978. They even had an album (which I wish I could get my hands on). Those concerts were quite good. A picnic tragedy befell the Soul Children between 1978 and 1982. I'm grateful to find some video of the beloved Albert Hadley. Trust me, their earlier years were memorable.

[@CCOSTON25]

What was the picnic tragedy What happened

[@blackLove357]

@@CCOSTON25What had happen, was that some of the children and adults, got caught in the suction area of one of the pools at Waveland in MS and perished. We had a big funeral for all of them (at one time) as First Emmanuel B.C. and almost all of New Orleans and people from al the way from FL to TX came. My mother, told me that Albert (Hadley) was almost beside himself. I was born in 1970, so everyone who knew about this tragedy and the other one (in which we were either born or raised in New Orleans), will always remember those two events 😪🙏

[@iSpeakFaith]

hallelujah!!!

[@laddy819]

You almost made me choke on my fried Chicken LOL. This is the typical Baptist way of shouting when I was growing up. When you got loud foks came running to hold N fan you down. Sometimes you got carried out the door....

[@n.l.barnes2274]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

[@dexzion]

Yessssssssssssssss! dex (zm)

[@cjayeprinceton2535]

I feel the holyghost in that place

[@pocketdrummer84]

New Orleans still they have more videos

[@morestylesbyshaun9980]

Facts!

[@lisathompson8024]

Omg I look at this often and wonder where and what happened to the gospel soul children? Does anyone know where Evelyn Morris is? All the way to the left in sopranos she was a good friend of my mother.

[@neworleanschapter-gospelmu7261]

They have a concert every 2nd Sunday at Star of Bethel 2217 Harmony Street at 8pm.

[@WBFbySteefen]

I thought it was earlier than 1974. On another video I see they were founded in 1969. So, I'm sure, I heard them between 1969 and 1974 also.

[@pocketdrummer84]

@rdsweet YES THEY ARE...SORRY TO SAY MY GOOD FRIEND THAT WAS THEY ORGANIST PASSED LAST WEEK. HE WILL BE MISSED SO MUCH.

[@WBFbySteefen]

@mrhammondb3 Hi. Great news you bring. It must be the first album. One song on it for sure is "To My Father's House." The female lead had a big afro at the time.

[@totalthug08]

Enough Said...

[@dimples40160]

LOL sho' U Rite, po' woman bein choked to death n another getin a bear hug LOL Sang Y'All

[@bigboijw]

@rdsweet they are still functioning.

[@Facebh18]

See right there the lady shouting and everybody coming to hold her down let the spirit have it's way and don't hinder me people fanning me down and getting around me while I shout no no no no no....let me free

[@mrhammondb3]

@WBFbySteefen i have all 5 of the soulchildren albums including the first 2 that was on a private label back in the 70s, u can check my page i posted the 2nd album (sing something old & something new) i think thats the one u talking about if not i will be posting the first one soon.

[@grammygam]

do you have "there is a joy in serving god by gsc..

[@rdsweet]

@bigboijw where are they functioning?

[@dimples40160]

@girlbay1232 Me Too

[@MarlonDGandy]

To the 5 aliens that gave this video thumbs down. Go back to space rat now! Lol 👀

[@rdsweet]

what happened to this group