Arizona Juanita Dranes - I Shall Wear a Crown

Thank you Lord for my crown!!

Too bad so much contemporary gospel music lacks the GENUINE spirit and sound heard on this fantastic record recorded by Dranes over 80 years ago. I've been a fan of hers for over 30 years and just wish I'd been able to catch her live and in-person. Her song "He Is my Story" is also wonderful! I can play it on the piano myself but not nearly as well as this true gospel artist.

This is historical . . . thanks for this post!

Sumbody let our current music leaders n the COGIC church hear this...OMG This is where we came from! Im lovin this

She was a member of the Famous Roberts Temple COGIC under Bishop William Roberts in the city of Chicago. She was a great figure of the Women's Department of the COGIC, she was for education and foreign missionary work

I grew up on this song. And my Choir sang this song Sunday which I really enjoyed. But this early version is similar, yet different. With the old style piano and musical type sounds like an old western movie song. WOW, good to actually hear how our people sang and worship at the turn of the century. Alot of our history is written and left up to the imagination, but to hear it (and at times see it) offers a new way of understand our past, especially the Church.

WoW.... This truly a treat. I had heard of Arizona Drane but to my knowledge she had no recorded music. This is amazing

1st black gospel artist recorded

WONDERFULL CROWN!
RUDHI

I read an article about it in the Austin (TX) paper. The article was talking about her induction into the Texas Music Hall of Fame or something like that. There are also some articles on the net...just Google it.