Inez Andrews-Just For Me

nez may have been a musical revelation to white Europeans but by 1965 she had already achieved huge popularity among black American church goers. She was the lead singer on some of the biggest hits for the legendary Caravans, including "Mary Don't You Weep", "I'm Not Tired Yet", "Make It In" and "He Won't Deny Me". 40 plus years on, Inez today features in a reformed version of the Caravans (Albertina Walker, Dorothy Norwood, Delores Washington and Inez) performing occasional reunion concerts. So who knows, we may yet hear more from one of the most exciting singers in Christendom who once quipped, "They don't pay me to sing, they like to hear me holler."

Inez McConic was born in 1929 in the Alabama city which produced another gospel legend, Dorothy Love Coates, Birmingham. Inez' father was a Baptist preacher and her mother a gospel singer (though she died when Inez was just two years old). Inez received her education in Birmingham public schools and sang in the junior choir of her father's church. Inez' upbringing was hard. Married and divorced while still in her teens, she had to take on domestic work to support her children. As she told author Anthony Heilbut, "I'd make $18 a week. I thought I was saving something. Then I'd spend seven for baby-sitting and two on the bus." She sang locally as a soloist and joined the Carter Choral Ensemble, which travelled around the Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia region. She also sang for a short period with the Raymond Rasberry Singers and intermittently substituted in Dorothy Love Coates' Original Gospel Harmonettes. In 1956 James Cleveland - who was eventually to become one of the biggest figures in post-war gospel - was serving as pianist and arranger for the Caravans, the group formed in 1951 as Robert Anderson And His Gospel Caravan. By the mid-'50s, fronted by the bluesy-voiced matriarch Albertina Walker, the Caravans were tireless travellers on the Gospel Highway. Cleveland persuaded Andrews to join the Caravans,

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[pemj1987]

i'm thinkn this song was by dorothy norwood, but i c iz inez andrews smh @ himself *shugs shoulders* oh well la la la la la la la la la la la

[MegaBlackisBeautiful]

@pemj1987 what is you trying to say then?? that i got it wrong that it is D.Norwood sinning it and i got it from one of her records my friends gave me and you got the nerve to question me and say that it aint Inez Singing don't tell me that i got it wrong i know who it is singing it it was on the gospel music channel and it said INEZ ANDREWS/JUST FOR ME get it right get it tight oh well la la la la la la la la la la la

[jamaicangal1991]

omg i havent heard this song in ages. God Bless You

[MegaBlackisBeautiful]

@jamaicangal1991 the same to you i'm glad you like it thank you and God bless

[Tajriq]

Makes me cry every time I hear it...

Haven't heard this rendition since I was a kid....no one has done it, nor will do it like this one...

EVER.

Sleep on big sis...

[MiLyfe100]

Walking down Memory Lane..I haven't heard this song in over 20 years..the last time I heard it play was on my daddy 8-track when I was 3 or 4 years old....I have been looking for this song for so long that I gave up trying to find it...Thank you thank you thank you for uploading this classic song...Oh and I must tell my mother that it is Inez Andrews who sings that song NOT Dorothy Norwood..lol

[hemnjc]

Anybody in their right mind will know, "THIS IS INEZ ANDREWS," soloing...

[mzladygemini]

Thank you; Thank you