Various The Story of Michael-Righteous-Peace Records – There Will Be Joy (2-CD)

(Gospel Friend) 46 tracks

From the late 1960s through the 1970s, Harold Freeman and Reverend Robert Lowe operated a prolific record business in Chicago, Ill. It yielded an impressive catalogue of 45s and LPs. Freeman and Lowe offered budding gospel talents from Chicago, Detroit, and elsewhere an opportunity to record for their Michael, Righteous, and Peace labels. Among the more prominent artists were Rev. Maceo Woods & His Christian Tabernacle Choir, Donald Vails Choraleers, and the Windy City Four.

In the CD booklet notes, GRAMMY-nominated writer Robert Marovich – author of A City Called Heaven – Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music reveals the concealed story of Freeman and Lowe’s enterprise, reflected through interviews with colleagues, gospel singers and musicians, and Freeman’s widow Rev. Dr. Yolanda Freeman. This CD project has been realized through exclusive agreement between Rev. Dr. Yolanda Freeman and Gospel Friend Records.