Uncloudy Day (original) - Myrna Summers & Refreshing Spring

The title track from the 1982 release, Myrna Summers' landmark version of Uncloudy Day. Backed by the Refreshing Spring COGIC choir and recorded live at the church in Riverdale, MD; Evangelist Summers delivers perhaps the best gospel version of this song. The late Jerry Gorham's sparkling piano intro was genius. This is real gospel singing.

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Music

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• Myrna
• Summers
• Refreshing
• Spring
• COGIC
• Uncloudy
• Day
• Soul
• Gospel
• 1982
• Savoy

[cougar11c]

Myrna Summers is an "unsung hero" in today's gospel music world. Let's give her roses while she's still here! Please pardon my criticism of today's gospel singers. But for me they just don't compare to our singers, song writers, musicians of the 60's 70's & 80's (I was too young to remember the 50's and back.)

If you have access to Myrna's version of You Can Depend On God, please bless us by posting it! I like Keith Pringle's version of it, but I love Myrna's version of song over Keith's.

[MzSurvivor13]

Lord, tears are flowing, so many wonderful memories of the GMWA days, and living to see that "uncloudy day". I just love this song..........Thanks for posting it.

[derricklane74]

@saxman1219 ....I agree with everything you are saying but there is one BIG difference. While Richard Smallwood, Keith Pringle, The Hawkins Brothers(Walter and Edwin) and others at the time , may have seemed radical upon their arrival , we still knew what they were singing was GOSPEL music. There was a definite separation between their music and the secular music. Now its often too hard to distinguish.

[james07031964]

I song this song with her when she came to Frederick md back in the 80's for a choir workshop

[ladybutler11]

This song brings back sooo many memories!!!

[papatim1948]

This is one of my favorite songs. I was fortunate to have meet Myrna Summers many years ago when I was a member of New Samaritan Baptist Church in Washington,D>C . This was before she went to Refreshing Springs.

[Saxman1219]

One last example; back in the 1600's, when Bach was writing music for the Church, he objected to and condemned as satanic and vulgar, this new instrument that people were starting to use. The instrument was . . . the piano. Can we imagine Christian music today without it? God doesn't sit still. Our kids should appreciate our stuff, but let God direct them to do theirs. As long as they're of the right spirit, let's not judge by the sound, but by the message and the spirit behind it.

[Saxman1219]

I have say though; not all of today's Gospel is fleshy and un-anointed. It's just different from what we listened to coming up. Think about it; if you were born in the 50's with roots in the deep South, you may have heard Grandma complaining about how the instruments we hear on this song were demonic. My choir went to Churches where we couldn't bring drums, guitars or any instruments in the building. It was considered sinful. I know a Pastor who banned Richard Smallwood's music.

[Saxman1219]

The thing I admired about Evangelist Summers was that she refused to get caught up in the Gospel music "Industry". She wasn't about going on tours, about making money, winning awards, etc. She just wanted to make music which honored the Lord, which she did . . . and still does. It's hard to believe that this was way back in '82. Where does the time go?

[dalynca]

Where can I find this song on CD?

[Mizanti1]

@rilmarie Now that's Real!!!!!!!!!!!!