Clara Ward & The Ward Singers I Feel The Holy Spirit (CD)

(2005/Gospel Friend) 24 tracks

Extraordinary talented, Clara Ward excelled as a singer, piano player, arranger and composer, as well as the leader of her own group. Her collaboration with gospel poet Rev. William Herbert Brewster yielded several huge sellers, like the standard, ”How I Got over”. Clara’s artistic dedication and professional stage routines gave the Ward Singers a national, and eventually an international following. Clara had an indelible influence on a generation of singers, among them Aretha Franklin. The Ward Singers were one of the first gospel groups to enter show business with success in the Las Vegas lounges. Their classic, early 1950s recordings on this CD prove their ambitions to be the hottest female gospel act in the USA.