Rev. J.M. Gates

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Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting 01:29 Tools
You Must Be Born Again 01:31 Tools
Must Be Born Again 01:31 Tools
Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail? 02:55 Tools
Are You Bound For Heaven Or Hell 01:55 Tools
Gettin' Ready for Christmas Day 03:02 Tools
Hitler and Hell 03:01 Tools
Death Might Be Your Santa Claus 03:00 Tools
He Was Born in a Manger 03:00 Tools
Ye Must Be Born Again (74355) 02:56 Tools
Oh! Death Where Is Thy Sting? (74356) 04:11 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Coming 03:12 Tools
Getting' Ready For Christmas Day 02:55 Tools
Dry Bones In The Valley 03:38 Tools
The Need Of Prayer 03:06 Tools
Will Hell Be Your Santa Claus? 02:53 Tools
Somebody's Been Stealin' 02:50 Tools
Amazing Grace 03:12 Tools
Smoking Woman In The Street 02:53 Tools
Baptize Me 03:14 Tools
Dead Cat On The Line 03:14 Tools
I'll Fly Away 03:08 Tools
Did You Spend Christmas Day In Jail 02:57 Tools
Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting 01:29 Tools
Death Is On Your Track 03:43 Tools
Where Will You Be On Christmas Day? 03:05 Tools
Speed On, Hell Is Waiting For You 03:07 Tools
Clean The Corners Of Your Mind 04:11 Tools
The Flood Of Alabama 03:00 Tools
Dying Mother And Her Child 03:43 Tools
Hell Without Fire 02:56 Tools
Moses In The Wilderness 03:05 Tools
President Roosevelt Is Everybody's Friend 02:56 Tools
On The Battlefield 03:10 Tools
Highway to Hell 03:06 Tools
Job And His God 03:05 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Coming (107079) 02:53 Tools
Devil In a Flying Machine 00:00 Tools
Straining At A Gnat And Swallowing A Camel 03:08 Tools
Will the Coffin Be Your Santa Claus? 03:05 Tools
I'm Gonna Die With The Staff In My Hand 03:06 Tools
Down Here, Lord, Waiting For You 03:06 Tools
Corn Licker And Gasoline 03:05 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Coming (142132) 00:00 Tools
Wolf Cat And His Catcher 02:58 Tools
Baptist World Alliance In Atlanta, Georgia 03:04 Tools
Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting? (36180) 03:15 Tools
Dry Bones 03:05 Tools
Saturday Night Black Marier Riders 03:05 Tools
Amazing Grace (35987) 03:05 Tools
Gettin' Ready For Christmas Day - 41 03:05 Tools
Lord, I'm In Your Hands 02:44 Tools
New Dead Cat On The Line 03:05 Tools
No Bread Line In Heaven 03:00 Tools
Lazarus In Heaven And The Rich Man In Hell 03:17 Tools
Amazing Grace (107080) 02:26 Tools
Down Here, Lord Waiting For You 02:58 Tools
Meeting The Judge On Monday Morning 03:06 Tools
Dying Gambler 00:00 Tools
You Midnight Ramblers 02:47 Tools
Kinky Hair is No Disgrace 03:18 Tools
When The War Is Over 03:05 Tools
Need of Prayer (142131) 03:06 Tools
Travelin' On 03:17 Tools
Men And Women Talk Too Much 03:00 Tools
I'm Going Home On The Heaven-Bound Train 03:05 Tools
Women Spend Too Much Money 03:00 Tools
Sad Home Of Death 03:00 Tools
Pay Your Policy Man 03:20 Tools
These Hard Times Are Tight Like That 03:00 Tools
You May Be Alive Or You May Be Dead, Christmas Day 02:46 Tools
I'm Going to Heaven If It Takes My Life 02:47 Tools
Hell Bound Express Train 03:01 Tools
I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord 03:06 Tools
You Got To Cross Jordan 02:44 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Comin' 02:53 Tools
Dead Cat On The Line No. 2 03:06 Tools
You Mother Heart Breakers 02:44 Tools
Guide Me While I Run This Race 03:00 Tools
I'm So Glad Trouble Don't Last Always (GEX 364) 02:44 Tools
So Glad I'm Here In Jesus' Name - Part 1 02:44 Tools
You Belong to That Funeral Train 00:00 Tools
Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (9866) 03:20 Tools
These Hard Times 02:57 Tools
God's Wrath In The St. Louis Cyclone 03:17 Tools
The One Thing I Know (142132) 03:01 Tools
Are You Bound for Heaven or Hell? 03:00 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Coming (35982) 03:04 Tools
Scat To The Cat And Suie To The Hog 03:00 Tools
Jesus Rose From The Dead 03:53 Tools
I Know I Got Religion (GEX 363) 02:44 Tools
Adam And Eve In The Garden 03:10 Tools
Your Mother Heart Breakers 03:01 Tools
I'm Gonna Die With The Staff In My Hand (142133) 03:01 Tools
My Footsteps Is Numbered 03:02 Tools
Just As Soon As My Feet Strike Zion (take 1) 03:39 Tools
The End of the World and Time Will Be No More 03:01 Tools
This Heart Of Mine - Part 1 03:01 Tools
Jacob 'Rassled With The Angel 03:12 Tools
Amazing Grace (GEX 362) 03:19 Tools
Hebrew Children In The Fiery Furnace 03:01 Tools
A Bank That Never Fails 03:01 Tools
Is The Rope Around Your Neck? 03:04 Tools
Will Hell Be Your Santa Claus 03:01 Tools
Will You Have Christmas Dinner In Jail? 03:03 Tools
David And Uriah 03:39 Tools
The One Thing I Know 03:09 Tools
Good Bye To Chain Stores, Part 2 03:20 Tools
Baptize Me (6762) 03:01 Tools
Dying Gambler (6763) 03:08 Tools
Joe Louis' Wrist And His Fist 03:01 Tools
Manish Women 02:42 Tools
I'll Be Satisfied (When My Soul Is Resting In The Presence Of The Lord) (GEX 369 02:26 Tools
Hell Is In God's Jail House 03:01 Tools
I Know I Got Religion 04:23 Tools
The Dying Mother and Her Child 04:23 Tools
Four and Twenty Elders 03:04 Tools
Must Be Born Again (35986) 03:01 Tools
I Prayed, I Prayed 03:04 Tools
Who Shall Deliver Me From The Body Of This Death? 03:04 Tools
The Dying Gambler 03:15 Tools
Good Bye To Chain Stores, Part 1 03:10 Tools
The Dying Gambler (74354) 03:15 Tools
You Gonna Need This Man Jesus On Your Bond 03:08 Tools
Will Hell Be Your Santa 03:15 Tools
No Room in the Jailhouse 00:30 Tools
After A While (6765) 03:19 Tools
Ain't Gonna Lay My Religion Down (74343) 03:19 Tools
After Awhile 03:15 Tools
I Know I Got Religion (107081) 03:19 Tools
Down Here, Lord, Waiting on You 03:01 Tools
Will The Coffin Be Your Santa Claus 02:58 Tools
You've Got To Lay Down And Die Some Day (36486-4) 03:01 Tools
Not A Dog Shall Move His Tongue 03:01 Tools
This Heart Of Mine - Part 2 02:42 Tools
Praying for the Pastor 02:53 Tools
Paul And Silas In Jail (9863) 03:15 Tools
Tell Me How Did You Feel? (6934) 02:53 Tools
Oh! Death, Where Is Thy Sting 02:53 Tools
Sit Down, Servant, and Rest a Little While 03:15 Tools
A Sure-Enough Soldier 03:15 Tools
There's One Thing I Know 03:04 Tools
I Know I Got Religion, Yes, Yes (2101) 03:04 Tools
I'm Gonna Die With My Staff In My Hand 03:15 Tools
Sit Down, Servant, And Rest A Little While (74353) 03:01 Tools
Goin' To Die With The Staff In My Hand 03:15 Tools
Ain't Gonna Lay My Religion Down 03:15 Tools
Praying For The Mourners 02:54 Tools
Waiting At The Beautiful Gate (GEX 366) 02:58 Tools
You've Got To Lay Down And Die Some Day (36486-3) 03:18 Tools
Noah And The Flood 02:54 Tools
Tiger Flowers' Last Flight 03:01 Tools
Prison Bound 03:01 Tools
Yonder Comes My Lord With A Bible In His Hand 00:30 Tools
Elijah The Key Man 03:03 Tools
Funeral Train (35985-2) 03:03 Tools
I Prayed, I Prayed (74352) 03:15 Tools
The Eagle Stirs Her Nest 03:15 Tools
Ye Must Be Born Again 03:15 Tools
The Dying Mother And Her Child (107082) 00:30 Tools
Praying For The Pastor (6764) 03:15 Tools
Jonah and the Whale 03:15 Tools
Four And Twenty Elders (74351) 02:58 Tools
It's What You Think And Not What You Know 02:54 Tools
Funeral Train (35985-1) 02:58 Tools
I'm Going To Heaven If It Takes My Life (GEX 365) 02:46 Tools
Just As Soon As My Feet Strike Zion (take 2) 02:58 Tools
Waiting At The Beautiful Gate 03:01 Tools
Things That You Can Move Don't Ask God to Move 03:15 Tools
The Rattlesnake Coils Before He Strikes 02:53 Tools
Get Right With God 02:53 Tools
The Racket Train - Part 2 03:15 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Coming (2099) 00:30 Tools
I'm Gonna Die With The Staff In My Hand (174345) 03:15 Tools
Born to Die 03:15 Tools
There's One Thing I Know (74344) 00:30 Tools
Goin' Through The Pearly Gates 03:15 Tools
Prodigal Son 03:15 Tools
Smoking Woman On The Street 02:46 Tools
Hell Wasn't Made For Man 03:15 Tools
I'm Gonna Die With A Staff In My Hand (GEX 367) 03:15 Tools
You Belong To That Funeral Train (GEX 368) 02:54 Tools
The Racket Train - Part 1 03:15 Tools
No Room In The Jail House 03:01 Tools
So Glad I'm Here In Jesus' Name - Part 2 03:01 Tools
Don't Hide From Your Furniture Man 03:01 Tools
I've Left This World Behind 03:01 Tools
Meeting The Judge On A Monday Morning 03:01 Tools
The Racket Train Part 1 03:01 Tools
Lord, I'm In Your Care 03:01 Tools
Valley Of Death 03:01 Tools
He'll Feed You When You're Hungry 03:01 Tools
I'm Tramping To Make Heaven My Home 03:01 Tools
I'm Gonna Die A Witness 03:01 Tools
Highway Robbers In The Night 03:01 Tools
Baptize Me (107090) 03:04 Tools
Paul And Silas In Jail 03:04 Tools
You Can Tell The World About This 03:04 Tools
Stop For The Red Light 03:04 Tools
Keep The Graves Of Your Loved Ones Clean 03:04 Tools
Gettin' Ready for Christmas 03:15 Tools
A Building That Never Gives Way 03:15 Tools
You Belong To That Funeral Train (74346) 03:15 Tools
I'm Gonna Die With A Staff In My Hand 03:15 Tools
The Ball Game Of Life 03:15 Tools
Death's Black Train Is Coming (6926) 03:15 Tools
If You Say You Got Good Religion, Don't Turn Back 03:15 Tools
I'm Going to Heaven Anyhow 03:15 Tools
Rich Man And The Needle's Eye 03:15 Tools
The First Born Was A Murderer 03:15 Tools
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The Reverend J.M. Gates (July 14, 1884 – August 18, 1945) was an American Christian preacher and Gospel music singer. From 1914 to his death, Gates was the pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Rock Dale Park, Atlanta, Georgia. He had a very prolific recording career, recording over 200 sides between 1926 and 1941, including frequent rerecordings. Experts estimate that at least a quarter of all sermons commercially released on record before 1943 were recorded by Gates. His first best-seller, 1926's "Death's Black Train Is Coming", sold 35,000 copies by the end of its release year. Many of his recordings were strong warnings of the hellish punishments that awaited sinners. Gates is credited with introducing the gospel music of former blues artist Thomas A. Dorsey into the black gospel market via his crusades. His funeral drew the largest crowd of any memorial service in the city before Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition to a Columbia Records collection and a "complete works" set from Document Records, Gates' work has been frequently featured in gospel and roots music anthologies, including Harry Smith's influential Anthology of American Folk Music. A modified version of his song "Death's Black Train Is Coming" was performed by the band Gob Iron on their debut album, Death Songs For The Living. An uncredited cover can also be heard on the DVD release of the television series Day Break starring Taye Diggs near the end of the thirteenth and final episode. His final recording, the 1941 sermon "Getting Ready for Christmas Day", is sampled in and inspired the lyrics to Paul Simon's song of the same name, which is featured on Simon's album, So Beautiful or So What, released in April 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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