SW MI State Choir- "Climbing Up The Mountain" (original)

Per request, here's the original 1965 version of "Climbing Up The Mountain" led by Ora Watkins.

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• Climbing
• Up
• The
• Mountain
• Southwest
• Michigan
• State
• Choir
• Mattie
• Moss
• Clark
• Black
• Gospel
• religious
• soul

[handelfan610]

rowoches you just like making me shout dont you lol....this is in our church of god christ hymnal and i always wanted to know how to this went. i'm glad i did.

[Rowoches]

LOL!! Yeah, I think several people have been slain over this song! I'll dance wit ya!! Hold my mule!

[BeithK101]

Does anyone have the words. There are a few lines I can't make out.

[Rowoches]

Climbing up the mountain

Trying to reach the top

Almost finished my battle

Gone halfway and I just can't stop

At the end of the mountain

There is faith and trust

I can see Jesus standing there to meet us

I thank God, I'm reaching (gotta reach) for myself.

Does that cover where you were having problems understanding?

[loaactnow]

i thought this was from 1957?

[Rowoches]

From the album SALVATION IS FREE- July 27, 1965 on Savoy Records.

[chordson]

I wish more of these songs would find their way back into Sunday morning services. I'm on a mission now to help bring them back.

[gospelbird22]

This recording makes it perfectly obvious that the modern mass choir directors are Mattie's spiritual descendants; choral effects people like Ricky Dillard became famous for, Mattie was using in 1965. The high, old-timey, raspy shouting contralto of Ora Watkins is a treasure. A Classic!

[john316jmb]

YESSUHH!!!! One them "SHO' NUFF" good Baptist/Pentecostal (Sanctified) Sunday "Mawnin" songs!!!! I can see the choir members right now with their choir robes on....SANGIN!!!

[DRob3Music]

I am also on a mission to preserve traditional gospel music. Yes, it has left the black church in droves. The (baby) grand pianos and Hammond organs have been removed and replaced with a bunch of sound-barrier-breaking keyboard synthesizers. Since I am a musician who knows many of these songs, I have decided that I am going to have community sing-alongs...in the east metro part of Atlanta (where there are good, down home country folks that still appreciate and sing this great music).

[CelestialChoir]

"Sing, sing, sing--SING--you ought to sing some time!" LOL...how many of us danced to this

one in church growing up? AHHHHHH "you ought to SHOUT some time!" HEY! I think I feel a dance coming on.....now, where's my TAMBORINE? :-)

[CelestialChoir]

Thanks to whoever uploads these good old COGIC choral classics!I grew up on these joyful, moving, fiery anthems! I wish choirs would "go back home" and sing and re-arrange these old black gospel standards--more joy and FIRE than many of the "lounge-sound" songs of today, with their S-L-O-W, tempos....A special thanks to those who POST THE LYRICS for these old songs that I never understood! LOL Praise Him, all ye earthly choirs!

[kmilton92]

Detroit Chapter Mass Choir of GMWA had recorded several of Mattie Moss Clark including Climbing Up The Mountain with Ora Watkins leading on Their CDs" called "Detroit Remembers" Vol. 1 and Vol.2. Its also available on DVD.

[ioxxd90]

Found this album at the oldies store down the street from me. only 3.99. it's used but hey at least I got a copy. :-) Thanks for posting.

[TheNoonie9800]

Love to hear the old songs. Brings back memories of Sunday mornings when we didn't worry about positions but just knew about praising the Lord.

[stephen2661]

I Absolutely Agree chordson, I Wish We Seasoned COGIC Musician's Would Get Back To Singing More Of These Songs In Our Choirs, But There Are So Many Of "These New Folk" That Do Not Know Anything About Mattie Moss Clark, I Think It's Kinda Bad Too, Because She Definitely Laid The Foundation As Far As The Music Ministry In The COGIC Church, Well I'm A Musician, In The COGIC Church :-) And I Am Definitely Going To Always Try To Include In My Music Repertoire A Mattie Moss Clark Song :-)

[EMWBOI07]

@jhtII Thank you so much for letting me know. I always wanted to who taught him. You are right Mattie Moss Clark plays the exact same way.

[jhtII]

@EMWBOI07

Dr. Clark taught Ronnie Kersey as well as her Daughter Twinkie,,,, Listen to the bass lines there all the same... and if you had ever heard Dr. Clark Play the Organ she plays the same way.... just wanted to let you know some facts