by David Bruce Murray | Jan 21, 2020 | Commentary & Observations, Music Business, News, Singing News
Some Southern Gospel DJs are expressing disappointment with new reporting requirements for the Singing News Top 80 airplay chart. They must now turn in a computer-generated spin count of songs played on their station along with their report. Some complaints include:...
by David Bruce Murray | Jan 20, 2018 | Awards Shows, Commentary & Observations, Singing News
Here’s a new approach to determining the top overall songwriter(s) over the period of a year. I’ve taken the top five songs from each month in Singing News starting in February 2017 and concluding in January 2018. (I chose to include January 2018 rather...
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 25, 2017 | History, Singing News
As the 61st National Quartet Convention is now underway in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, let us look back 47 years ago to the October 1970 issue of Singing News. The 14th National Quartet Convention in 1970 fell a couple of weeks after the publication of the October issue...
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 18, 2017 | History, Singing News
What was going on 47 years ago in Gospel Music? Here’s a snapshot from the September 1970 issue of The Singing News. A front-page article announced that concert promoters J G Whitfield, Lloyd Orrell, and W B Nowlin were uniting under the Skylite Talent banner....
by David Bruce Murray | Sep 13, 2017 | Awards Shows, History, Singing News
The oldest issue of Singing News in my collection is from July 1970, and that’s the issue I’ll be highlighting today. A First Time For Everything For the first dozen plus years, Singing News was in a newspaper format. The big headline at the top of the...
