Fred Waring: Best Of Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians, Vol. 1
Price 24.95 USD
The stirring performance of timeless music continues to inspire and delight listeners and viewers of all ages. The Fred Waring Show, a groundbreaking musical variety show from the golden days of early television, ran from 1949 until 1954 and was nominated for two primetime Emmys. This DVD features the incomparable baritone Frank Davis as the preacher in a Waring fan favorite, GodÆs Trombones, the stirring James Weldon Johnson narrative poem set to music by Roy Ringwald. In addition, you will find a selection of favorite spirituals and folk songs performed by Frank Davis and the Glee Club. Frank Davis was a singer (bass) and soloist with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians from 1952-1959, in 1962 and again from 1968-69. He was renowned as a spiritual and gospel singer, and in addition to performing with the Pennsylvanians, he did several solo concert tours.