Rev. Charles Nicks & The St. James Adult Choir - How I Got Over

[62chucky]

I could watch/listen to this OVER and OVER again!!!! OMG...play Nicks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!! Yessuh, how well I do remember him and the choir. Thats a SOLID drummer playing ok??!

[WoodWendMusic]

I likes this VERY murch!!!

[mrtheoneandonly83]

Rev Charles H. Nick was the co founder of the GMWA and he was also the vice president.

[sdh74]

THE WAY CHURCH SHOULD BE!!!

[ElderPinkerton]

What an organist! Pure Gospel. Pure Hammond legen. Pure Rev.Nicks!

[PlausibleOne]

Yes Lord...how I got over is from the ROOTS such as this video is depicting...

[BISHOPTJG]

whenever Rev. Nicks would walk into the National Baptist Convention whomever was on the organ would stop playing and get up so Rev. Nicks could plat the organ. God bless his legacy. PRECIOUS MEMORIES HOW THEY LINGER

[willthebest1]

I love this song and its arrangement nice indeed!!!!!!

[THERIGHTREVEREND]

My uncle was SO SO SO silly yet SO SO SO serious. Now if ANY of us had been doin all that laughin' and talkin to each other he would have gave us this HUGE lecture about being "Serious" for ministry but look at him playin 'with everybody who walk past him on they way up! Now point ya'll finger at James Ray Dowell and say "hmmm" like he woulda did US!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!!! I miss you Uncle Jay. Lord knows it ain't been the same since you got outta here. I ain't laughed nearly as hard!!!

[jermainehaywood]

that man sho nuff know he be playing that organ God willing I want to play like that

[34Sweettea]

Rev. Charles Nicks could play the Hammond he made the organ speak unlike so many today play at it.

[psalmist69]

i love how the drummer brings his stick up so high - i love the old church! lol

[pocketdrummer84]

@psalmist69 true!!

[77miracles]

Alfred Bolden, the organist for Voices of Tabernacle at Church of Prayer in Detroit, was instrumental also in defining the Detroit "passes" and organ chords with the bass pedals on the Hammond B-52 with Leslie speakers. Thae early Chicago and Detroit churches used to take buses and visit each other so it was natural that their musical styles would blend and develop together. I still hear the jazz organist Shirley Scott in most of the good gospel, though!!!

[RoyJonesJrP4PChamp]

Wow, I had never heard Rev. Nicks, but with my eyes closed I'd have sworn it was Fred Nelson from First Church Of Deliverance...Extremely great organists, both!!! God bless and keep posting!!!!

[fcdmusician]

St. James M. B. church and The First church of Deliverance are sister churches. There is not much difference in our order of worship. I really miss the fellowship we had. We were one in the Spirit.

[wcta0608]

Kenneth Morris, when he was organist of First Church, really kind of established what we define as the midwest (Chicago) traditional organ sound, Fred Nelson developed that into the rich sound we know now and Detroit incorporated that Motown fullness into it. I love it either way. I think Rudolph Stanfield and Thomas Whitfield defined both sounds and its still good today. Great posting.

[TheFirecogicuk]

And Kenneth Morris was the minister of music and Chior director @ First Church Of he created the piano and organ style that would be a popular sound in gospel music of the 40s 50s & 60s. He also ran a publishing house with Sallie Martin.

[wcta0608]

Nothing less can be said about Rev. Charles Nicks. What a great virtuoso and a class man he was. He tore up the GMWA conventions a few nights just by walking near the organ lol.

[EMWBOI07]

A WORLDWIDE HAMMOND ORGAN LEGEND!!!

[TheFirecogicuk]

Next to Billiy Preston adn Twinkie Clark.

[gingerbread1231]

Saints marching in for The Lord. What an intro!

[PrinceLolow]

Oh yes,  I missed the march. I always looked forward to march down the isle at 3627 Mt Elliot.

[19171969]

Now that is CHURCH!!!! March on Saints.

[1cogicprophet]

I just love how they march in that is how i grow up n church whrer they marched in every sunday they dont do that any more

why?

[ivanberry19]

my church in new orleans still do.

[black4422]

Does anyone know the words to this refrain???

[fcdmusician]

How I got over, how I got over my Lord, and my soul looked back and wondered, wondered, wondered, how I got over my Lord.

[3627StJames]

Rev. Nick's is making that organ walk. Have you every seen an organ walk? Well this one walked up and down Mt. Elliott and Pulford , as far as I know, from 1972 to 1988. I love it! It sounds so good. I really miss the Rev, Nicks, JD and the 100 voice Adult Choir.

[fcdmusician]

Rev. Clarence H. Cobbs the Founder and Pastor of First Church of Deliverance in Chicago, wrote this song on his way to Detroit, he said he heard the hum of the wheels of the car he was riding in, and that;s how this song How I got over came into fruition. It was written in the thirties.

[thatsmr2usir]

Not to many choirs here in Detroit still march in. The only one I can think of that still marches down is Unity Baptist! Or @ least the last time I paid them a visit they were still marching & singing like Jesus was about to return!

[penst21]

BLESS GOD!!! This is the way SoCal GMWA marches in and they sing WE ARE ON OUR WAY. This is spirited marching and puts you in the mind for worship along with the music. God Bless you for sharing ... these Gospel Classic moments captured on celluloid and seeing Rev Nicks in action!!!

[Likumhairy]

Who wrote this version? I have been trying to find it. Words? My choir sings a version, but not this one.

[fcdmusician]

This song was written in the thirties by my Pastor, Rev. Cobbs, he heard the melody in the hum of the wheels of his care and put the humming to music. You can find the words in the National Baptist hymnal, it's written in Bb in the hymnal,but First church and saint James, we sing it in Db.

[PrinceLolow]

You gotthat right, we sang it it in Db. OMG, Izora ringing that note.

[srspw]

at new light we did too. Db.we marched as well on hand behind the back the other up high, oh the memories.

[suelucious]

Hello Marcell. Yes still listening to this video. Can't get enough. When did St. James move into the new building?

[Marcell77]

i'm glad you're still enjoying the video!! the move was in 1991.

[blacsouljah]

@Marcell77

I'm a lifelong Detroiter and so is my husband, who's a Presbyterian minister. If I had known all this was going on over at St. James and known where it was my life might be very different today, because I would've joined your church and choir and majored in music instead of engineering. St. James Church is one of God's gifts to Detroit. May God bless you and the congregation. Thank you for posting these treasures.

[laddy819]

I'm still listening to this video as well. My day is off tune without it.

[suelucious]

marcell please tell me why they just starting cracking up during the march? lol i watch this video sooo much. i love it. who is the choir director?

[Marcell77]

that's none other than Mr Jimmy "J.D." Dowell!! he was the minister of music at St. James!! he passed away in 2004.

[suelucious]

He is the best. I love seeing him doing his thang. R.I.P brother Dowell

[suelucious]

i love the choir director. he is jammin!!!

[suelucious]

I just thank God for youtube and Marcell77.

[3627StJames]

Is Izora still alive?

[Marcell77]

yes she is.

[blkchi1]

And the icing on the cake is to hear Zora ring out...Lawd have mercy !

[waddup81]

Na this is what i am talkin about!!!!Sholl wish they did it like this at service at my church.

[laddy819]

My day doesn't start right without the devotion and this march in. It is a MUST that I hear 'How I Got Over' before I start my day.

[Mzprez41]

I am also addicted to hearing this song everday.

[suelucious]

So am I. I listen to this everyday at least 5 or more. This song puts me in a state of peace.

[HSJMBC]

Gon Choir with them yellow robes on

[PrinceLolow]

For those who made comments about my Pastor being sick/feeling well at this time! He wasn't. Rev. you betta play that Hammon as the choir march on into glory.

[ministerquawn]

i need tghis dvd badbad

[SoulnSensual]

I like this one waaaayyyy better than the other one.

[Mzprez41]

All I can say is, my God in Heaven! That man knows he was playin that organ!!!!!!!!! If he was sick you sure couldn't tell!!!

[trailblaze2003]

He's making it talk !!!!

[musicismythang1]

Good God! Lawd, I knowed Rev. Nicks had that somethin special! I really Miss Him and the days of Choirs Really Givin It Up! Old School Could Always Bring Something To The Table! The Generation Of Now Can Learn some Valuable Lessons From Mentors such as the Rev. Charles Nicks!

[titusone51]

When I watch this I think of First Church of Deliverance in Chicago. I believe the late Pastor Clarence Cobbs wrote this song for First Church. Choirs just do not have the old school flair for marching in any more

[davidalan1967]

You all better march in the sanctuary. We do it the same way at Cosmopolitan. Step to Jesus choir!!!!!!

[adonbaugh]

I Know they had to cool that organ off after he got through with it

[cogic4eva]

you know they did!! or maybe they had to replace it cause it might have blown up afterwards lol

[kevricfosjon]

Thank you for posting this classic of all times. Rev. Nicks was one of my distant mentors in playing the organ. I have just about any St. James. Please, continue to post anything else you may have. Many aspiring young musicians can benefit from your posts!! God Bless You

[cdesha1118]

REV NICKS....wow...and he probably wasnt feeling good at this time as far as his health but HE STILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL KICKING butt on the organ!!!!!!!!!!!!! Da guy is amazing!

[sar729]

okay do you have the lord's prayer... that's next...after all these years, I still know the order of service.

[silverchimes85]

PLAY IT REV!!!

[tdavidray]

YES SIR!!!!!

[BrothaRollins]

Yes Sir, U betta play Rev. Nicks!Rockin' from the side to side