"Something's Got a Hold of Me" (1959)- James Cleveland

[Marashor]

I'm addicted to this James Cleveland song.

It's something about the way the background singers say "meeeeeeeeeeee-ee-eee-eeee" that has me pressing rewind a million times. James had one of the greatest voices!

♥♥♥ Marashor ♥♥♥♥

[Marashor]

Nothin' like old Gospel music!!!

♥♥♥ Marashor ♥♥♥♥

[Stoga334]

RIP

[MrTheJoeyb]

PRAISE THE LORD WOOOOOOO

[SMG6771]

This song was also infamously covered by the Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple Choir (as in the Jonestown massacre).

[TheMouseAvenger]

@SMG6771 I know; I actually heard the recording of the cover (& saw video footage of them singing the song in a Peoples Temple documentary). It's kinda strange when you think about how the PT actually started out, & what it ended up becoming in its final years...

[dallaskenn]

Where did his daughter come from, a stork?

[CelestialChoir]

I LOVE this old song....great piano work....and then the rejoicing HITS: "It was the HOLY GHOST!" Choirs need to get back to this good old gospel singing!

[Denisha1980]

Awesome

[carolynkayeat]

Old school style!!!...Timeless Classic!!!!!!!!!!...Really does get a hold of you.....

[MrsPowe11]

Love this one!

[Tiger44140]

we song this today in church and i bout felt the holyghost

[memphis69ful]

GOOG GOD ALMIGTHY!!!!!,i thank you for fixing it for me.i put all my

trust in you.my whole heart,mind,soul,spirit,i lay it down at the calvary.

you never dissapoint me.i had serious heart and chest pains, i prayed

to you just once about it.and you healed my body.you answered me OVERNIGHT

THANK you jesus

[mutantgatheru]

hhehe wao am amazed it was one of its Kind en is owesome!!! God be praised

[acalhoun628]

Classic!

[dproffessa]

Jer 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

[noremorse126]

SOMETHING GOT A HOLD OF ME!

[REDXY727]

I need some of that old time religion

[TJTele]

The Muddy Waters of Gospel...The Source so many rivers flowed from...

[DivaDee1000]

I was singing this song when I wass 6 years old. I am 49 now! They just dont make em like this no more! and Shrley Ceasser. Oh My God I thank you!!!!!

[DivaDee1000]

I was singing this song when I wass 6 years old. I am 49 now! They just dont make em like this no more!

[d820m]

i liked the story the All Music Guide gives on Rev. Cleveland, where is said he created a piano out of metal and other scraps, basically learning how to play without actually producing a note.........now if that story is actually true, then that is truly a God given talent

[sanipapi]

I love this music !! Thank God for James Cleveland and the road that he paved leading many to Christ !!

[706Blackk]

I love this man and the way he sounds. I JUST BOUGHT SEVERAL OF HIS CDs...AND IM JUST STARTING TO PLAY THE KEYBOARD SO I CAN FOLLOW IN HIS FOOT STEPS. START MY OWN CHOIR AND BRING BACK SOME OF THAT GOOD OL' TIME RELIGION (SMILING)

[MultiGuarddog]

OH ,MAN I REMEMBER SINGING LEAD ON THIS SONG AS A VERY YOUNG MAN . I NEVER FELT MORE FULL OF THE SPIRIT THAN I DID AS WHEN I SANG THIS SONG.

[othinell]

YES, old school love it !!!!!

[redleter]

OLD SCHOOL GOSPEL.... LOVE IT :)

[REDXY727]

@redleter yeah

[kiekie84]

i love this song we sing it our church and it's beautiful!!! so come on Jesus... roll on in with the Father.. as you two begin to move by the Spirit our church kinda reminds me of those old tent revivals not the fake ones were people shook on the floor giving money for healing but the ones were Jesus was preached with fire!!! and people were getting the Holy Ghost!!! as they cry out Abba Father!!

[KF15ful]

LOVE THIS SONG

[ioriorioriorio]

Well, yeah, man......the reason is it sounds way ahead of 1959 is because its from God!!.......no such thing as 1959,' 69, or 1859 witth the Lord

[yaya4now2]

Some songs are timeless -- this is one of them -- PRAISE GOD!

[ioriorioriorio]

Awesome....brings me back to my childhood in the great 1960's in Waterbury ct.!!! Bless God!!

[vangoghmatisse]

AMAZING!!!!

[jddrew1000]

whos the female singer

Is it Imogene Green?

[boofitts]

Great classic. thanks for posting.

[mpreston123]

Now this is REAL gospel music! Miss all of it!

[huneybee67]

LOVE JAMES...................LOVE THIS SONG. WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF GOD NO MATTER WHAT!!!!

[SuperSLIMGOODY1]

OMG...I HAVENT HEARD THIS SONG IN AGES...THANKS FOR POSTING.....

[donneboy2009]

yes suhhhh!!!!!!! thats why i just stick with 0ld sk00l g0spel!!

[Thegralha]

God bless you for this one brother!! Fantastic !!

[victorytemple2010]

I went to a meeting to fight, my heart wasn't right, but SOMETHING got ahold of me...(fight is how I remember it) another song from my childhood at Southern Gospel Campmeetings!!!

[drivergurl]

@victorytemple2010 LOL:-) I went to a meeting ONE NIGHT... We used to sing "and my heart got right"

[nolagemini]

3:19 i almost lost my mind oh yes holy ghost!

[gqgreen89]

It's a spiritual classic!

[TheElder79]

Who is the second lead who adlibs on the end?

[TheFirecogicuk]

Rev Charles Ashley Craig 2nd Bishop Charles Ashley Craig 3rd's farther

[richieriche7]

@TheElder79 Rev.Charles Ashley Craig II

[richieriche7]

@TheElder79 Rev. Charles A. Craig II

[DaSourcespr06]

Wow..i never would have known that this was 1959 had you not said nothing! Way ahead of its time..love it!

[JayEm86]

It may have actually been recorded in 1960, but 59 and 60 are just one year apart so this song is still ahead of its time.

[gospelbird22]

WRONG. Herbert PICKARD on piano. ALFRED BOLDEN ORGAN.

[TheFirecogicuk]

I know as this is from the same album that had the love of God on it.

[VantisDoroHall]

@TheFirecogicuk No. It is not on that album. 

[TheFirecogicuk]

1959

[1319second3771]

@DaSourcespr06 I am loving the boogie woogie piano stylings behind the rich vocals of Rev. James Cleveland. The Gold Standard...

[goldenthoth]

this is back when church meant becoming Born-again, repentance and thanksgiving to God; not this come to church and praise Him so He will bless you these false-prophets are preaching now. they will have their part in the lake of fire!!! thanks for posting.

[UtubeLeeOh]

Amen my friend. One day when the Lord blesses me, I want to start an independent Pentecostal ministry with a fundamentalist holiness theology. Something like the Church of God in Christ was before it became the institutionalized "COGIC", which was like 100 years ago. We need to seek the old paths and reject the Trendy Bullcrap Nonsense (TBN?) theology we've had far too much of over the years.

[goldenthoth]

i know it is just a big distraction to what is really at stake here. as the Lord said about the seed that fell among the thorns; the cares of this world choked the Word of God out. what is more of the cares of this world other than the desire or  "love" of money?! the love of money is the root of all evil!!!

[UtubeLeeOh]

Amen. Besides, TBN only has a handful of decent programming. Daystar, Church Channel, INSP, etc., aren't any better. Now that I've stopped looking at these "Hollywood" preachers, I have more time to be a Berean believer and read the good book for myself.

[goldenthoth]

a berean believer; i never heard of that term b4. what is that? what has happened to "church" is that now is has transform n2 the establishment that was around when Christ was walking 2 saved. self-serving preachers, care more about the routine than the meaning of it. not @ all humble and 4 real, and it has spreaded to the masses now. LORD HAVE MERCY!!!

[UtubeLeeOh]

A Berean Believer is what I like to call a Christian who's final authority is the Word of God. It's based on Acts 17:11:

"Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness, and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true" (NIV).

I hear what you're saying about the establishment of the status quo of church leadership. That's why churches break away from institutionalized denominationalism.

[UtubeLeeOh]

Not to mention church politics, especially in the Black church. That's why many Blacks go to white churches. I'm not knocking those congregations. In fact they appear to be seeking God's will for their lives more aggressively than we are. Many of us as a people don't even think of church unless it's Easter, Christmas or Mother's day.

[goldenthoth]

but it more than churches now, it has moved down to the believers themselves. i myself have wrestle with it 4 sometime. should i still be a member of a church or should i just gather with believers in houses 2 discuss the Word and still do my alms b4 God.

[UtubeLeeOh]

We should go to church. Hebrews 10:25 says so. Not that its a commandment but it helps us grow as believers and stay encouraged in the faith. As far as gathering in houses, didn't they do that in the days of the apostles? Isn't that how many of today's ministries big and small got started? Also giving alms b4 God and helping others is His will for us. Seek God in prayer and let your conscience be your guide. After all, that's the part of our spirit God speaks to.

[goldenthoth]

true; but im just disgusted with the crap!!! they do it then and it has worked b4.

[UtubeLeeOh]

When I start my ministry, I will do it online first by posting videos, you know virtual bible studies and play some hymns/worship songs, build a website, newsletters, join a fellowship (church network) and stuff. After that, I'll try to branch out in my city, get a meeting place, like my place until I need a bigger venue and go from there. All I need now is a laptop and a webcam.

[goldenthoth]

sounds like u hve a plan. i myself when and only if God calls me into that direction; until then i will contiune to teach 1 on 1 with folks that may hve questions.

[UtubeLeeOh]

Let me correct myself. It's God's ministry, not mine. Second, I've known since 2003that He called me. I want to be a vessel He can use. In these last days He's going to use the unknown, those who are unqualified by man's standards, theologically undereducated to get His church in Biblical order before He returns. Why? So that the religious churchfolk can be saved for real and so sinners can see that God is real not churchfolk being hypocrites. Then revival will truly come to the body of Christ.

[goldenthoth]

God has always used the so-called "uneducatued" to accomplish His WIll. only with a few exceptions: moses , samuel, and paul. God uses the simple to confound the wise so no 1 can glory nfront of Him.

[UtubeLeeOh]

That is so true. It's the religious establishment, the Pharisees and Sadducees of our modern church world that put so much emphasis on it. They have an educated form of godliness, with their advanced degrees from liberal bible colleges, but they deny the power and in some cases the Word of God. So many "Christian" schools like that now especially this one I work at in Memphis.

[goldenthoth]

liberal? shouldnt use that word like that Is. 32:1-8. now but to the "educated"; they many (not all) do have a form of godliness, bcuz as Christ said..." you strain to get a gnate and missed the boulder" n " you worry about the little things and not the more weighter things of God"

[UtubeLeeOh]

Sorry. I should have specified the ones who were guilty of that and not include those who really do fear God in the mainstream churches and seek to live righteous lives but we shouldn't ignore the ones who's lives consistently contradict their testimony. Liberal like conservative is a political term used by secular media but I used it in the context of so called Christians who have liberated thinking in that all things are permissible in this postmodern, politically correct society we live in.

[UtubeLeeOh]

You see, those are the Christians who preach self help theology and feel good gospel messages. Not all of them may be guilty of it but it does go on. In fact I am certain the mass majority of such Christians go to many great cathedral mega-churches and never receive conviction of their sins bc they want feel warm and fuzzy not condemned. And when they leave the service, they already have planned out what kind of dirt they will partake of. Sermonettes make Christianettes. They want milk not meat.

[goldenthoth]

np; hmm i wonder where is that comment were i marked down scripture? but 2 tell u the truth all kinds of people have that mindset libs and cons alike. look what happened in the bush era where cons thought and did whatever they want!!!

[UtubeLeeOh]

and still do

[goldenthoth]

oh-ohio?

[ibdreful]

This reminds of my childhood, It made my day :-)

[scorpiorj]

is that the late Alfred Bolden on the organ and Herbert pewee picket on the piano?

[iorioriorio]

Nice...James will always remind me of my youth in the 1960's, and all those great old storefront churches in waterbury ct

[icebergtip]

Lord have mercy... This song really gets me in the mood to shout Glory!!!

[SHERETTA123]

wow thanks for posting... the first time heard on one of Madeas plays......

[ddk147]

i love this song my church sing it just like this and we be rockin it every time and they be shoutin all through this service

[gottarockman]

Amazing!

[alphashed]

Now at 3:13 is where I want to get up and dance with the Saints.

[alphashed]

Lord Lord! This is wonderful, something definitely got a hold of me and thank you Lord for that hold. Jesus you hold has enveloped me, touched me and healed me. Thank you Jesus!

[BashaaniN]

Rev. Cleveland was quite a revolutionary figure in Gospel Music. Thomas A. Dorsey formed the idiom and took Black Religious Music on a tangent from the 1930's to the 60's then James Cleveland took it to an even greater level. I think he, Dorothy Love Coates, Doris Akers and Prof. Alex Bradford were THE composer/arrangers of the Gospel Golden Age.

[JayEm86]

I'm surprised (but glad) that you mentioned Doris Akers. A lot of folks overlook her.

[preachersdtr1]

@JayEm86 RE: Doris Akers: So true! I was so surprised when I saw her on a couple of the Bill & Gloria Gaither's Homecoming Friends videos. I thought everybody but me had forgotten all about her. Every "Sunday morning at Bro. Woods' house," Doris Akers & The Sky Pilot Choir could be heard "doin' it right!" Must do a search for them on y/t.

[warmlandlass1]

@preachersdtr1 She came up to Vancouver in 1962 to teach our 100 voice choir how to R E A L L Y sing--, the dedication service of Glad Tidings Temple that same year, with Billy Preston accompanying on our Hammond, and Doris at the piano. Just search Doris Akers and you'll pull plenty of them up--she did a lot of Gaither Homecoming Friends before she passed shortly after in 1995--that lady's music has TOTALLY blessed me over the years; I miss her, I love her, and we'll be seein' ya soon~!

[preachersdtr1]

@warmlandlass1: Wow...Doris Akers AND Billy Preston! Youall hit the jackpot! (:

I would have loved to have met Doris Akers in person. She was a formative influence on my young life. God bless her immortal soul in Glory. Thank you for all that up-dating info. I'll be putting that to use, here on Y/T.

[BigBlueBeast]

I did not know this song was out in 1959!

[Commentarian1]

Ok so, I am wondering if this is Sally Martin singing "Holy Ghost"? It kinda sounds like her. I love this song and the piano work is second to none!

[BashaaniN]

Sallie Martin's voice is a lower...

[srvinfinity]

THis IS church! OH YEAH! mM!

[favored82]

Hand Clappin' and Foot Stompin'!! Love it! Piano Player was killin' that Piano! Go!

[ilililhy]

amen something got a hold on me.JESUS and the holy ghost.i even love black people now heheheh. sang it brother in christ.satan is a lier and a deciever

[42j]

Love this song because if you truly repent you will recieve the gift of the HOLYGHOST. Not many people preach repentance and calling on Jesus and recieving the Holyghost. they call it old but you can't be saved any other way. Acts 2:38

[02261982]

Amen to that.

[patie48nce]

The Rev James Cleveland can sings such beautiful old time gospel. Thank you for posting this song.

[jazzy3762001]

I like his version of the song but I think Clara Ward and the Ward Singers do a much better job

[coachnsuccess]

I was a year old when this gospel giant was singing the praises of God. What a legacy.

One of the first gospel singers and influence on me.

[Autumn82]

Now, this is church yall!

[Marcburn2288]

tell me about it... my church just recently celebrated there anniversary and my aunt was killing this song sitting in front of me and my lil cousin and we were her back up..lol I hope my generation get it together

[egs6848]

Great song!!! Great musician!!

[PurpleSnowman29]

Hmm, I'll be the first one to comment on this one. This is one of my all time Rev. James Cleveland. I love this song.