Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A humble family-owned bakery provided bread to Knoxvillians for over a century − and gave rise to an iconic 20th-century gospel ...

Claude Jeter, who has died aged 94, pioneered the technique of falsetto singing in African American music, as leader of the gospel group the Swan Silvertones. He paved the way for such vocal stylists ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The Rev. Claude Jeter, known for his gospel singing with the group the Swan Silvertones, has died in New York at the age of 94, his niece says. Jeter's niece, Gwendolyn ...

Post-war black gospel music shaped soul sounds through the mid-1970s, but it's increasingly hard to find today. Rock historian Ed Ward discusses a few recent gospel reissues. This is FRESH AIR.

Swan's Bakery dates back to 1883 and was founded by brothers Charles and George Swan. Its most recognizable building was at 1801 Magnolia Ave. where in the 1940s it could produce 50,000 pounds of ...

The Rev. Claude Jeter, the founder of the gospel group the Swan Silvertones whose delicate yet potent falsetto had a wide influence on both pop and religious singers in the 1950s and 60s, died on ...

A humble family-owned bakery provided bread to Knoxvillians for over a century − and gave rise to an iconic 20th-century gospel group. The Swan Brothers Bakery, better known as Swan's Bakery, grew ...