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Marion Williams

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Just keep on clapping — it's Miss Williams

Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 2 March 1963

CHRIS BARBER, they tell me, has been to see her twenty times. Humphrey Lyttelton cannot keep away. ...

Marion Williams: Surely God Is Able (SpiritFeel/Shanachie)

Review by James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990

COMMENTATORS OFTEN place the Olympian gospel singer Marion Williams, a thriving veteran who got her start singing with the Ward Sisters during the late Forties, ...

The Genius of Marion Williams: My Soul Looks Back

Sleeve notes by Anthony Heilbut, Spirit Feel/Shanachie, 1994

IN RETROSPECT, Marion Williams' last year assumes an almost mythic shape. She finally received the worldly honours and material goods long denied her: the rush ...

How Sweet It Was: The Sights and Sounds of Gospel's Golden Age

Sleeve notes by Anthony Heilbut, Shanachie Records, 2010

"You know, friends, they got this new music ... this rocking and roll. And I'd just like to say that it gets its beat... its ...

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