Bessie Griffin (née Arlette B. Broil; July 6, 1922 – April 10, 1989) was an American gospel singer. From junior high into the late 1940s, she sang with the Southern Harps, who were better known later as the Southern Revivalists of New Orleans, then performed with The Caravans for a year and toured with W. Herbert Brewster Jr. Mentored by Mahalia Jackson, she moved to Chicago in the early 1950s and then relocated to Los Angeles at the end of the decade. She performed in theaters and night clubs, and appeared on popular televisions shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and The Dinah Shore Show.
BessieGriffin (née Arlette B. Broil; July 6, 1922 – April 10, 1989) was an American gospel singer. From junior high into the late 1940s, she sang with...
Bessie Virginia Blount, also known as Bessie Blount Griffin (November 24, 1914 – December 30, 2009), was an American writer, nurse, physical therapist...
Mahalia Jackson recorded the song for her album Bless This House in 1956. BessieGriffin and The Gospel Pearls recorded the song on their Portraits in Bronze...
Watching Over Me" by Ray Charles, who stood in for a grief-stricken BessieGriffin. Cooke was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale...
(1891–1995), American civil rights pioneer Bessie Alexander Ficklen (1861–1945), American poet and artist Bessie Blount Griffin (1914–2009), American physical therapist...
No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "That's What My Man Is For" BessieGriffin 4:30 2. "Where There's A Will There's A Way" Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney Bramlett...
George Genereux, 54, Canadian trap shooter and Olympic gold medalist. BessieGriffin, 66, American gospel singer, breast cancer. Nikolai Grinko, 68, Ukrainian...
The Dixie Hummingbirds, Professor Alex Bradford, Dorothy Love Coates, BessieGriffin, Reverend Claude_Jeter, R. H. Harris, Inez Andrews, The Roberta Martin...
Monkees) Cyrus Faryar (Modern Folk Quartet, The Group with No Name) BessieGriffin (The Gospel Consolators, The Caravans, The Gospel Pearls) Singles: "Christmas...
women singers were achieving stardom. Some, such as Mahalia Jackson and BessieGriffin, were primarily soloists, while others, such as Clara Ward, Albertina...
Ernie Ford for I Love to Tell the Story 1964 Soeur Sourire Dominique BessieGriffin and the Gospel Pearls for Recorded Live! Charles Magnuson for Piano...
were an esteemed and popular female quartet that for a time included BessieGriffin, later a well-known solo gospel performer. The Zion Harmonizers toured...
Douglas The Fairfield Four Five Singing Stars The Gospel Harmonettes BessieGriffin Pilgrim Jubilees The Radio Four Cleophus Robinson Silvertone Singers...
Folk Quartet alumni Cyrus Faryar and Henry Diltz; and gospel singer BessieGriffin. The song was compiled onto a 1984 collection of Christmas songs titled...
Bessie Regina Norris (December 21, 1953 – May 10, 2020), better known by her stage name Betty Wright, was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and...
Fairfield Four. McCrary was taught the song, "Since I Met Jesus", by BessieGriffin, where this would come in handy at an impromptu concert that she got...
school. He began his career singing gospel with the Soul Revivers and BessieGriffin's Consolators, but crossed over to secular music in 1959. His upstairs...
agreement to run the council together. In June 2006 2 Labour councillors, BessieGriffin and Pat Robinson, left the party to sit as independent councillors,...
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