Object Details
- Description
- A 45 rpm record album titled “Gospel Songs” recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The vinyl record (2014.98.2a) has a yellow label with white and red text. The album sleeve (2014.98.2b) features a photographic image of Sister Rosetta Tharpe playing a guitar and singing. The black-and-white image is printed in shades of grey and red. Large white lettering covers the bottom left corner of the image reading [Sister Rosetta Tharpe / GOSPEL SONGS]. Along the top of the sleeve, song titles are printed in black text against a plain white background: [JERICHO / I SHALL KNOW HIM / UP ABOVE MY HEAD THERE'S MUSIC IN THE AIR / 99-1 2 WON'T DO]. The back of the sleeve features a printed biography of Tharpe in French.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Recorded by
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973
- Distributed by
- Mercury Records, American, founded 1945
- Manufactured by
- EMI Records Ltd, British, 1972 - 2013
- Date
- 1950s
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gayle Wald
- Medium
- vinyl, ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Diameter (record): 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
- H x W (album jacket): 7 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (18 × 18 cm)
- Type
- record covers
- 45 rpm records
