Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "Up Above My Head"

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Published on: June 25th, 2015

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of the great innovators in twentieth-century American music, gospel's first cross-over artist and a huge influence on early rock-n-roll. Here she does "Up Above My Head" on the show TV Gospel Time (which ran from 1962-66) accompanied by the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church Choir and rocking her Gibson Les Paul SG custom.

 

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