via Halles: Remember back in the early 60’s you listen to a show that had all of your favorite gospel artists and dynamic preaching…Well that show “Jubilee Showcase” is now being released by Time Life as a streaming-only album for the first time. There are other stunning tracks by Andraé Crouch & The Disciples, The Salem Travelers, The […]
via gospelflava: Jubilee Showcase, the ground breaking Chicago based Gospel music television program finds a new home as several programs are now available on Vimeo. The show, hosted by Sid Ordower aired on WLS TV in Chicago from 1963 to 1984 reached some quarter of a million people every Sunday morning bringing the Gospel music […]
Every February we hear about the heroes and heroines of African American history but those personalities are usually African Americans themselves.  However, there’s one pioneer of African American television history who rarely comes up in those conversations and his name was Sid Ordower. A white man of Jewish heritage, he was a civil rights activist and both the founder and host […]
