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...Pointer Sisters. Another strict Church upbringing, maybe even Baptist. Four girls whose minister father rarely let them out of the house Saturday nights. So they sang. in Church, and conspired, which led them to the traditional backup jobs, with Taj Mahal among others. (Their harmony on his "Texas Woman Blues" is like to drive you wild.) They look like standard Harlem hookers, run through a time warp to about 1943, garish lipstick, thrift shop dresses, hats. They also sing. Ernie Santosuosso said in the Globe last week that he was playing their album incessantly, all this is on one album...
...Rock and the Golden Oldie hit it off so well? "I told her, 'Sit down, girl.' I showed off," Sly explained. "She liked that. Yeah, she's very aware. She's very wise. Only thing-she started talking about the Baptist church, and she shouldn't do that...
...French, 49, of the Second Baptist Church, spoke for his black parishioners: "They've heard too much about it. People in this country are impatient. If you don't nail a man immediately, forget...
...idea for the pageant began in 1969 when Martha Knight, head of the local ballet theater, choreographed a religious ballet for her student group. Philip Dodson, music director of the First Baptist Church, saw it and asked if she would come talk to him. As Martha Knight recalls it, Dodson said, "I have a dream," and she blurted out, "I think I have the same dream...
...dreamers had written a narration based on the Gospels and put together a tape of selections from Handel and Berlioz, which they played for John Lavender, the soft-spoken pastor of the First Baptist Church. He was quickly sold on the idea of a pageant, and soon found an anonymous angel who put up $20,000 to get production started...