(1-31 of 31 song lyrics)Average rating for James Cleveland songs is 8.41/10 [328 votes]. Selected popular James Cleveland song of Tuesday, November 5 2024 is "Please Make Me Better".
Top James Cleveland Albums
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Inspirational Gospel Legends, Vol. 1 [2015]
I Don't Feel Noways Tired [2013]
Platinum Gospel: Rev. James Cleveland [2011]
Rev. James Cleveland & the Voices of Tabernacle [1999]
James Cleveland and the L.A. Gospel Messengers (Live) [1991]
James Cleveland was born in December 1932 in Chicago, Illinois. When he was a toddler, his grandmother took him with her to choir practice at Pilgrim Baptist Church, where he invariably found himself bored to tears. Despite his protests, she took him regularly. Sensin he wasn't going to ever escape these tedious sessions, he hatched the idea to try and sing along with the choir, for his own diversion. As he got more confident and certain of the words, he began to sing out, which brought him to the notice of the choir as welll as its director, Thomas A. Dorsey, perhaps one of the greatest gospel composers who ever lived.Rather than landing him in trouble, as he feared, the young Cleveland found himself crowned the new "C... read more