I was introduced to this song about a few years ago. Our church minister of music brought this song to the choir and everyone loved it. This song is our COGIC anthem that's very anointing and powerful.
StarBrown1, thank you soooo much for posting these songs. This really takes me back....Temple COGIC, Bishop Kelsey, Ricky McCrimmon, Harvey Lewis, Winona Lewis singing Going Up Yonder, Tim Linzy & Danny McCrimmon playing drums, the State Choir! Those were the days! Growing up COGIC in Washington, DC was a blessing!
I remember this song from long ago when I wasn't saved. I liked it then, lol. So you know how much more I liked it after I got saved. Myrna has such an anointing unlike the recording artists you see today who get all the recognitiona and awards. They are mostly money motivated. And some of the stuff they are singing now doesn't even sound like gospel.
Thank you for posting this. I've have been literally looking for this song for YEARS. Is there a way I can find this song? Once again, I profusely thank you
It's very rare. Ebay is always a good place to check. record sellers and vintage music store sell a lot of old gospel on Ebay; sometimes you can a "lot" of old gospel in one bid.
To answer your question, Antharvey, Myrna left COGIC when she left Refreshing Spring in 1997. After working with some other "independent" churches, she has been with Reid Temple AME Church for several years.
Myrna walks with God and continues to do what God has called her to do. Not seeing Myrna is a reflection of us, COGIC and not her. Blessed are the PURE in heart, for they shall see God. To be straight up, Myrna is the real deal, ANOINTED, and she has a life to back it up. She has an anointing and a respect for the sacredness of music that some "artists" don't have. At my church, a whole generation was "trained" on music and her message, in my house, we grew up on this music and the message.
Question: Why is it that you see on you tube a whole lot of COGIC Convocations and musicals and you never see myrna in any of them and she grew up in cogic?
You have to note that there are a lot of born and bred COGIC singers/recording artists who you don't see singing at any Convocations or musicals. If you notice, you'll see a lot of the same people doing all the singing.
Thank You So Much for Posting this song My Sister Sang on this Album she was a member of the Star Bethlehem COGICYouth Choir. My sister Angie along with Kristal Murden, Harvey Lewis and a few others where used on this album. I can remember being at the recording session as a little Boy and it brings back so many happy memories of hearing my sister in the hay day of her singing again THank You!!!!!!!
Believe it or not, StarBrown, Myrna got her first shot at choir directing in the Intermediate Choir. She was the assistant to Pastor Tim Bouknight and the late Pastor Lorenzo Dupree. I believe she was still in high school. She left the Spring in 1997 and went to the Church of the Great Commission (Camp Springs, MD) and Kingdom Worship Center (Towson,
Absolutely. Myrna attended Refreshing Spring from early childhood until the 80's. Her mother is the General Church Mother there even now.
It was under the leadership of the late Dr. Archie Headen and the late Prof. Theodore King that her skills as an evangelist and music pioneer were honed. And she came back to Refreshing Spring after she left BB.
If you look at some of my other postings, there are pictures of Myrna at Refreshing Spring throughout her youth.
It's amazing how many people love "Sinner Please". Maybe Myrna will re-record it one day. You know how a little kid always seems to think the words are something else? When I first learned this song, I thought they were saying "Centipede, don't let this harvest pass." I know, it was stupid, but I was only 6 years old. haha
i love this song...brings back so many memories...i love this album...anybody know how i can purchase old alblum...another song i like on this alblum is "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass....you can sing, myrna!
Oh thank you for posting this song. Oh I am so back in the day right now! I grew up on this good old "real" gospel music and used to pretend to be Myrna Summers at home after church. This is the BEST! I love to hear a choir bust a throw back, it just messes church up!
We recorded it on a Saturday night and was right back at church the next day. We sang "I Found Jesus" and the house was wrecked! Pastor Headen never did preach that day (one of the RARE times that happened). Believe it or not, my favorite song on that album was the anthem, "Let My Soul Live".
I found Jesus was the song for me on this lp.. For you to have a recording and be back in service the next day in full force means you were brought up right to serve the Lord and honour your committment, not somehting that happens today..... I was raised the same way....
If I recall correctly, Roberta wore a leather trench coat with a beige fedora (the girl ALWAYS had style!). She was on her feet, clapping and rocking and singing right along with the choir. She had on pants, and you know how pentecostal churches were about women in pants back then...
you've got a great memory.... I'm going to find this album.... I can only imagine the church that you had at this session.. everytime that I would listen to this and hear Myrna's exhortation and hear the saints sceaming and hollering.... I would feel the Holy Ghost EVERYTIME!!!!!!!!
Myrna is and always will be a BEAST! Not enough recog in this generation(my peers). Twinkie got a lot of vocals from Ree but you can't deny (and she won't either) she listened to Myrna too!
Vaughn103, what's here on YouTube isn't the entire song. Some of Jeffrey LaValley's organ expertise isn't on here either. Part of Myrna's exhortation is on the album, but not the entire thing. She went at it for a while. What stopped her was that woman's scream.
ok.... I knew there was more and I know that the song was much longer as well.. What was Roberta Flacks response to all that was going on during the session???
None of the Clarks had anything to do with this recording. They weren't even there. Roberta Flack was, though. It was during Myrna's exhortation that the woman's broken leg was healed. Unfortunately, Savoy Records didn't think the praise following the song was worth putting on the album, and we all know better than that! Besides, we bucked for a solid hour. It's a pity they weren't doing videos back then...
On the album version that I had, this song was much longer and included Myrna's exhortation, I'm going to try to find this album, because I want the entire song.... Where you apart of the choir or just in the audience???? This was history, I would have loved to have witnessed this recording....
ok... I know know that I'm not crazy, there is a longer version of this recording....and I'm going to find it..... and Star, I think you were there too and if not you were around...LOL.......
Myrna is still singing, but she is preaching more nowadays. I was blessed to be one of the youngest singers on "I Found Jesus" and I remember it so well. We recorded it in November, 1975 and right after we recorded that song, this woman (whose leg was broken) screamed because the Lord healed her during the recording and she commenced to buckin'. To StarBrown1: I'm Myrna's cousin and Pastor Bouknight's youngest son, Kevin.
Thank you for posting this. My sister has this album and she is going to let me have it so that I can put it on my hardrive!!! THanks so much. I miss those days.
Thank You Thank You. O How I Love This Song. It's what I grew up on. The Church we had @ Refreshing Springs. I always THEN and EVEN NOW listen for Myrna to SNAP her Fingers LOL. It's even bring back the Revival Caravans with the Dixon brothers, Woolard, Baughnite (Tim), POP HEADEN, WOW amazing....Simply Amazing...
The finger snap and the crossed eyes...there's only on Myrna. Those were the days. I actually saw Pastor Timothy Bouknight not too long ago...and he's still singing and preaching up a storm.
I used to have this Album back in the 70's - 80's and I played it to death I mean literally played it to death. The woman is awsome. No gospel music like to old time way to really move you. She has such an annointed voice. I'm about to get Happy!
yes...do you know where "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass...oh i would love to hear the whole alblum...i was about 13 or 14 and i remember crying and praising God on this alblum
Why? Are you looking... LOL! Really, I think Evang. Summers might be a little too old for you :) However, if you have rich uncle that's looking, I might be willing to arrange something...
Wow. Wow. Believe it or not, it was the music of Myrna Summers that changed my mind about "church music." Thank God for her musician, A. Jeffrey LaValley. He changed my mind about what church musicians should sound like. Star, do you have "Come to Jesus Now"? I bought that album 3 times, and every one of 'em got scratched. Bless you and your ministry of sharing God through Myrna Summers.
How can I find the album Myrna recorded with the song "Oh How Precious" which has been recently re-recorded by Ricky Dillard. I used to have the cassette but we all know what happens to them.
The original Oh How Precious is on the album, "You Are My Miracle" If you want the album, try eBay or a vintage record store. She also did the song on the GMWA's 25th Anniversary project and that's available on CD.
Actually, "Oh How Precious" was originally recorded by Myrna and the Myrna Summers Singers right after "I Found Jesus" was recorded. The original trio was Rose Woods Rosemond, Dottie Felder Jones, and Royce Bouknight. There's a copy of the album in Refreshing Spring's History & Heritage Room.
yes...please can you find "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass"...i actually love this whole album but that song just have you in tears and you would want to give your life to Christ after hearing it....i think many people in 2008 will be saved just from hearing that song....
Does anyone know who played saxophone on this album? The song "Father I stretch my hand to thee" is absolutely marvelous.
whatsitallabouthey 1 month ago
I was introduced to this song about a few years ago. Our church minister of music brought this song to the choir and everyone loved it. This song is our COGIC anthem that's very anointing and powerful.
memlettie 3 months ago
This is some rare Myrna Summers... I think though The "Tell It Like It Is" is even more rare-r.
shittywife 7 months ago
3:20 to 4:30 is the shit.
impala327 10 months ago
Amazing. Added with respect to my Youtube Gospel/Hammond organ favorites. Thanks!
impala327 11 months ago
Amen. Beautiful voice. . .
LovingMyNaturalSelf 1 year ago
good
TheImelda123 2 years ago
StarBrown1, thank you soooo much for posting these songs. This really takes me back....Temple COGIC, Bishop Kelsey, Ricky McCrimmon, Harvey Lewis, Winona Lewis singing Going Up Yonder, Tim Linzy & Danny McCrimmon playing drums, the State Choir! Those were the days! Growing up COGIC in Washington, DC was a blessing!
ShareTrueLove 2 years ago
OMG these were the days! I can smell the very atmosphere lol
uprayup 2 years ago
My mom loves this song. In fact she enjoyed the hold album. Yes,I said album.Showing her age huh?
malenko00 2 years ago
I remember this song from long ago when I wasn't saved. I liked it then, lol. So you know how much more I liked it after I got saved. Myrna has such an anointing unlike the recording artists you see today who get all the recognitiona and awards. They are mostly money motivated. And some of the stuff they are singing now doesn't even sound like gospel.
Hydiah 2 years ago 2
i met myrna summers tonight and i really love her. something about her says she's real
sgolden2 2 years ago
yeah---this version sounds more soulful like church
henryhar 2 years ago 2
my play this all the time whan i was 6
tabatha7douglas 2 years ago
this was my moms fav almum along with esther smith an mattie moss....i had to put this album on cd!!!!
doolonzo 2 years ago
Our choir used to sing this song (along with many other Myrna Summers songs) ALL of the time. I really miss her work!
PureHoneyChild 3 years ago
Star Brown. Are you Myrna Summers?
kbkcogic 3 years ago
LOL! That is too funny. I am not Myrna Summers :)
StarBrown1 3 years ago
Wow, someone removed GOD GAVE ME A SONG....not good. I came home today to hear it and its gone....
jland742003 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I've have been literally looking for this song for YEARS. Is there a way I can find this song? Once again, I profusely thank you
NatureGirl215 3 years ago
It's very rare. Ebay is always a good place to check. record sellers and vintage music store sell a lot of old gospel on Ebay; sometimes you can a "lot" of old gospel in one bid.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
To answer your question, Antharvey, Myrna left COGIC when she left Refreshing Spring in 1997. After working with some other "independent" churches, she has been with Reid Temple AME Church for several years.
Kebbo202 3 years ago
Myrna walks with God and continues to do what God has called her to do. Not seeing Myrna is a reflection of us, COGIC and not her. Blessed are the PURE in heart, for they shall see God. To be straight up, Myrna is the real deal, ANOINTED, and she has a life to back it up. She has an anointing and a respect for the sacredness of music that some "artists" don't have. At my church, a whole generation was "trained" on music and her message, in my house, we grew up on this music and the message.
tscottiew 3 years ago
Question: Why is it that you see on you tube a whole lot of COGIC Convocations and musicals and you never see myrna in any of them and she grew up in cogic?
antharvey 3 years ago
You have to note that there are a lot of born and bred COGIC singers/recording artists who you don't see singing at any Convocations or musicals. If you notice, you'll see a lot of the same people doing all the singing.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
You aint tell no lie there......
cmylaw 2 years ago
Thank You So Much for Posting this song My Sister Sang on this Album she was a member of the Star Bethlehem COGICYouth Choir. My sister Angie along with Kristal Murden, Harvey Lewis and a few others where used on this album. I can remember being at the recording session as a little Boy and it brings back so many happy memories of hearing my sister in the hay day of her singing again THank You!!!!!!!
kelvonmack 3 years ago
I don't exactly remember when Pastor Dupree passed away. I believe it was around 2000.
Kebbo202 3 years ago
Believe it or not, StarBrown, Myrna got her first shot at choir directing in the Intermediate Choir. She was the assistant to Pastor Tim Bouknight and the late Pastor Lorenzo Dupree. I believe she was still in high school. She left the Spring in 1997 and went to the Church of the Great Commission (Camp Springs, MD) and Kingdom Worship Center (Towson,
Kebbo202 3 years ago
When did Dupree pass away?
Kcjparker 3 years ago
Was Myrna a member of this church? I thought she belonged to GE Patterson's church.
whatuwatchingjoe 3 years ago
Absolutely. Myrna attended Refreshing Spring from early childhood until the 80's. Her mother is the General Church Mother there even now.
It was under the leadership of the late Dr. Archie Headen and the late Prof. Theodore King that her skills as an evangelist and music pioneer were honed. And she came back to Refreshing Spring after she left BB.
If you look at some of my other postings, there are pictures of Myrna at Refreshing Spring throughout her youth.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
is she no longer there?
Crjeno1 3 years ago
Currently, she is the Minister of Music at Reid Temple AME in Glenn Dale, Maryland.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
It's amazing how many people love "Sinner Please". Maybe Myrna will re-record it one day. You know how a little kid always seems to think the words are something else? When I first learned this song, I thought they were saying "Centipede, don't let this harvest pass." I know, it was stupid, but I was only 6 years old. haha
Kebbo202 3 years ago
Sinner Please is now up!
StarBrown1 3 years ago
She has already re recorded "Sinner" on her album "Mountain Get Out Of My Way"
gospelbird22 3 years ago
@Kebbo202
That's so cute.
anilora7 1 year ago
i love this song...brings back so many memories...i love this album...anybody know how i can purchase old alblum...another song i like on this alblum is "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass....you can sing, myrna!
centraljennings 3 years ago
try amazon. com
girlmusician24 3 years ago
Wow, I remember this in church when I was a kid. I didn't listen to Gospel on radio then so I never knew who recorded tese songs.
kbkcogic 3 years ago
Oh thank you for posting this song. Oh I am so back in the day right now! I grew up on this good old "real" gospel music and used to pretend to be Myrna Summers at home after church. This is the BEST! I love to hear a choir bust a throw back, it just messes church up!
Meetoo4 3 years ago
We recorded it on a Saturday night and was right back at church the next day. We sang "I Found Jesus" and the house was wrecked! Pastor Headen never did preach that day (one of the RARE times that happened). Believe it or not, my favorite song on that album was the anthem, "Let My Soul Live".
Kebbo202 3 years ago
I found Jesus was the song for me on this lp.. For you to have a recording and be back in service the next day in full force means you were brought up right to serve the Lord and honour your committment, not somehting that happens today..... I was raised the same way....
vaughn103 3 years ago
If I recall correctly, Roberta wore a leather trench coat with a beige fedora (the girl ALWAYS had style!). She was on her feet, clapping and rocking and singing right along with the choir. She had on pants, and you know how pentecostal churches were about women in pants back then...
Kebbo202 3 years ago
you've got a great memory.... I'm going to find this album.... I can only imagine the church that you had at this session.. everytime that I would listen to this and hear Myrna's exhortation and hear the saints sceaming and hollering.... I would feel the Holy Ghost EVERYTIME!!!!!!!!
vaughn103 3 years ago
I LOVE THIS SONG
smoot83 3 years ago
Myrna is and always will be a BEAST! Not enough recog in this generation(my peers). Twinkie got a lot of vocals from Ree but you can't deny (and she won't either) she listened to Myrna too!
THERIGHTREVEREND 3 years ago
Vaughn103, what's here on YouTube isn't the entire song. Some of Jeffrey LaValley's organ expertise isn't on here either. Part of Myrna's exhortation is on the album, but not the entire thing. She went at it for a while. What stopped her was that woman's scream.
Kebbo202 3 years ago
ok.... I knew there was more and I know that the song was much longer as well.. What was Roberta Flacks response to all that was going on during the session???
vaughn103 3 years ago
None of the Clarks had anything to do with this recording. They weren't even there. Roberta Flack was, though. It was during Myrna's exhortation that the woman's broken leg was healed. Unfortunately, Savoy Records didn't think the praise following the song was worth putting on the album, and we all know better than that! Besides, we bucked for a solid hour. It's a pity they weren't doing videos back then...
Kebbo202 3 years ago
On the album version that I had, this song was much longer and included Myrna's exhortation, I'm going to try to find this album, because I want the entire song.... Where you apart of the choir or just in the audience???? This was history, I would have loved to have witnessed this recording....
vaughn103 3 years ago
Kebbo202, who was just a boy at the time, was on the album. I wasn't even embryo at the time :)
StarBrown1 3 years ago
ok... I know know that I'm not crazy, there is a longer version of this recording....and I'm going to find it..... and Star, I think you were there too and if not you were around...LOL.......
vaughn103 3 years ago
What happened to the rest of the song, especially Myrna's exhortation.... that's the highlight of the song?????
vaughn103 3 years ago
Myrna is still singing, but she is preaching more nowadays. I was blessed to be one of the youngest singers on "I Found Jesus" and I remember it so well. We recorded it in November, 1975 and right after we recorded that song, this woman (whose leg was broken) screamed because the Lord healed her during the recording and she commenced to buckin'. To StarBrown1: I'm Myrna's cousin and Pastor Bouknight's youngest son, Kevin.
Kebbo202 3 years ago
To Kebbo202: I'm the mother of the infant you are always trying to steal :)
StarBrown1 3 years ago
Did Dr.Clark Produce this recording? and is Twinkie on the organ for this session?
Thanks man.
eyesawit2 3 years ago
Thank God that A. Jeffrey LaValley was on the organ for the session. Where would I be if not for him playing for Myrna Summers? Oh, God, thank YOU!
raystar8888 3 years ago
can you please tell me where i can find her old songs from this album...i like "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass...
centraljennings 3 years ago
Did Twinkie Clark write this song?
AM1491 3 years ago
No. Myrna Summers wrote this song in the 70s and recorded it in 1976.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this. My sister has this album and she is going to let me have it so that I can put it on my hardrive!!! THanks so much. I miss those days.
ioxxd90 3 years ago
does she really have a degree in music?
girlmusician24 3 years ago 2
Thank You Thank You. O How I Love This Song. It's what I grew up on. The Church we had @ Refreshing Springs. I always THEN and EVEN NOW listen for Myrna to SNAP her Fingers LOL. It's even bring back the Revival Caravans with the Dixon brothers, Woolard, Baughnite (Tim), POP HEADEN, WOW amazing....Simply Amazing...
kooplivinlarge 3 years ago
The finger snap and the crossed eyes...there's only on Myrna. Those were the days. I actually saw Pastor Timothy Bouknight not too long ago...and he's still singing and preaching up a storm.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
I used to have this Album back in the 70's - 80's and I played it to death I mean literally played it to death. The woman is awsome. No gospel music like to old time way to really move you. She has such an annointed voice. I'm about to get Happy!
samuelchampagne 3 years ago
YES...."Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass!!"...excellent suggestion!!!
kyyzurri 3 years ago
yes...do you know where "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass...oh i would love to hear the whole alblum...i was about 13 or 14 and i remember crying and praising God on this alblum
centraljennings 3 years ago
yes please post "Sinner Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass!!!"
gospelbird22 3 years ago
Yes!!! I barely remembered that, but since you mentioned it!!! bring them all back....
oskjosh 3 years ago
ha! you took me way back!
jholyghosthead 3 years ago
Is Myrna Stil Married
antharvey 3 years ago
Why? Are you looking... LOL! Really, I think Evang. Summers might be a little too old for you :) However, if you have rich uncle that's looking, I might be willing to arrange something...
StarBrown1 3 years ago
Hey ain't nothing wrong with a young man we know how to treat women LOL.
antharvey 3 years ago
Wow. Wow. Believe it or not, it was the music of Myrna Summers that changed my mind about "church music." Thank God for her musician, A. Jeffrey LaValley. He changed my mind about what church musicians should sound like. Star, do you have "Come to Jesus Now"? I bought that album 3 times, and every one of 'em got scratched. Bless you and your ministry of sharing God through Myrna Summers.
raystar8888 3 years ago
Yes Sinner please dont let this harvest pass is on here. Ive got to have this album.
teron25 3 years ago
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!
Thanks for posting this!!!
Please please please post more MYRNA thanks!!!
brockshy 3 years ago
Thanks. You can actually post this whole album and any others you have if you want. People are listening. Trust me.
jland742003 3 years ago
I love this album. Her first version of Sinner Don't Let This Harvest Pass is on here; so, as soon as I get the vinyl converted to MP3--it'll be up.
Be blessed
StarBrown1 3 years ago
How can I find the album Myrna recorded with the song "Oh How Precious" which has been recently re-recorded by Ricky Dillard. I used to have the cassette but we all know what happens to them.
MAJORSJA 3 years ago
The original Oh How Precious is on the album, "You Are My Miracle" If you want the album, try eBay or a vintage record store. She also did the song on the GMWA's 25th Anniversary project and that's available on CD.
StarBrown1 3 years ago
Actually, "Oh How Precious" was originally recorded by Myrna and the Myrna Summers Singers right after "I Found Jesus" was recorded. The original trio was Rose Woods Rosemond, Dottie Felder Jones, and Royce Bouknight. There's a copy of the album in Refreshing Spring's History & Heritage Room.
Kebbo202 3 years ago
yes...please can you find "sinner, please don't let this harvest pass"...i actually love this whole album but that song just have you in tears and you would want to give your life to Christ after hearing it....i think many people in 2008 will be saved just from hearing that song....
centraljennings 3 years ago