Two Picture Books About the Godmother of Rock 'n' Roll'
Briefly

The first time I heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe's voice must have been when I was in high school in the 1970s.It most assuredly was coming out of our old Grundig radio, tuned, as it always was late on Saturday evenings in Chicago, to The Midnight Special on WFMT.This was the classical station that in 1953, in a groundbreaking program created by Mike Nichols, began playing the music of the American people.
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