"The church hymn Uncloudy Days speaks of Heaven as a cloudless day where no storm clouds rise. Yet, many of the musical performers who have sung so passionately about that celestial place over the years, experienced hell on earth in their personal lives. This book, Uncloudy Days, concisely chronicles the lives - happy or sad -- of over 650 gospel artists and personalities, the infamous and the forgotten, dating from 1900 to the present, in encyclopedia form.
The author, Bil Carpenter, conducted interviews with over 100 of them and many of these stories are told here for the very first time. From Philip Bailey's gospel record label pressing him to make gospel music that sounded like his pop hit "Easy Lover" and a sex scandal that almost silenced the Boys Choir of Harlem to the circus-like exploitation of Gloria Spencer - billed as the world's largest gospel singer at 615 pounds - their stories are all here in the same place for the first time."
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