The Charioteers

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Wade In The Water 02:47 Tools
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 02:44 Tools
Ezechiel Saw The Wheel 02:44 Tools
I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire 00:30 Tools
All God's Chillun Got Shoes 03:04 Tools
Don't Rock The Boat 02:47 Tools
Jubilee 02:01 Tools
Ooh Look A There Ain't She Pretty 02:32 Tools
Amen 02:37 Tools
I'm Bound For The Promised Land 02:37 Tools
A Kiss And A Rose 00:00 Tools
Jesus Is a Rock in a Weary Land 01:56 Tools
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans 02:19 Tools
Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet 01:53 Tools
Jesus Is A Rock In The Weary Land 01:54 Tools
Open The Door, Richard 03:17 Tools
SHOO SHOO BABY 01:54 Tools
Don't Play No Mambo 02:50 Tools
Speak To Me Of Love 02:15 Tools
Tumbling Tumbleweeds 02:31 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 01:33 Tools
Ooh Looka There Ain't She Pretty 03:31 Tools
No Soup 02:12 Tools
So Long 02:32 Tools
Swing For Sale 02:04 Tools
I Miss You So 02:32 Tools
Season 2, Episode 51: Pondering Existence With Roger Nygard 02:32 Tools
Ride, Red, Ride 01:42 Tools
Open The Door Richard 01:42 Tools
All Gods Chillun Got Shows 03:07 Tools
Them There Eyes 02:07 Tools
Stormy Weather 03:17 Tools
All God's Chillum Got Shot 02:59 Tools
Season 2, Episode 49: Building Atheist Communities The CFI Way 01:42 Tools
I've Got My Heart on My Sleeve 02:59 Tools
Dinah 01:49 Tools
Nobody's Sweetheart 02:03 Tools
Walk Together Chillun 02:56 Tools
Season 2, Episode 45: Blown for Good, the life and times of the Notorious BFG 02:56 Tools
Season 2, Episode 56: From Adventist to Apostate, Part 1, With Dustin Williams 02:56 Tools
Season 2, Episode 50: Teabagging Hutaree: How Political Posturing Is Fomenting Sectarian Militantism 02:56 Tools
Season 2, Episode 48: The Face Of Scientology 02:56 Tools
Episode 58: Disproving Christianity with David McAfee 02:56 Tools
Jusus Is A Rock In The Weary Land 02:39 Tools
Stardust 02:36 Tools
With Every Breath I Take 02:55 Tools
Jesus Is a Rock (In a Weary Land) 03:20 Tools
Season 2, Episode 40: “Where do we go from here?” with Brian Parra 03:20 Tools
Season 2, Episode 44: The Christmas Counteroffensive 03:20 Tools
Season 2, Episode 39: The Post AAI Recap Show with Brother Richard 03:20 Tools
Episode 65: Sex and Secularism with Dr. Darrel Ray 03:20 Tools
Season 2, Episode 55: Uncovering The Jesus Myth, Part 2, With Rene Salm 03:20 Tools
Gaucho Serenade 02:57 Tools
Ooh Look A There Ain’t She Pretty 02:32 Tools
Season 2, Episode 54: The Future of Atheist Nexus with Brother Richard Haynes 02:32 Tools
I Understand 02:46 Tools
Careless Love 02:06 Tools
Season 2, Episode 52: Uncovering The Jesus Myth, Part 1, With Frank Zindler 02:06 Tools
Season 2, Episode 43: Creationism Part Deux 02:06 Tools
Episode 61: Irreducible Apostasy With Leo Behe 02:06 Tools
All God's Childrens Got Shoes 02:46 Tools
Ridin' Around In The Rain 02:46 Tools
Episode 66: Seventh Day Atheists with Dustin Williams 02:46 Tools
Season 2, Episode 47: An Evening With Mr. Deity 02:46 Tools
Episode 32: The Bible Science Game Show 02:46 Tools
Episode 34: Not My God! 02:46 Tools
Season 2, Episode 49.5: Sean Faircloth and the Secular Coalition for America 02:46 Tools
Don't Rock The Beat 02:46 Tools
Season 2, Episode 37: All in the Family with Jeff Sharlet 02:46 Tools
Down the Glory Road 05:28 Tools
Episode 33: The Messy Antics of Prophecy 05:28 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 02:43 Tools
Episode 67: Living After Faith with Rich And Deanna Joy Lyons 05:28 Tools
Runnin' Wild 02:13 Tools
Season 2, Episode 57: Inside The AAI With Stuart Bechman 05:28 Tools
Brother Bill 02:09 Tools
Walk Together Children 02:56 Tools
Season 2, Episode 46: The Prophecy Episode Which Was Fortold In Our Last Prophecy Episode 02:56 Tools
Episode 59: The Humanist Approach To Happiness With Jennifer Hancock 02:56 Tools
Season 2, Episode 38: Blair Scott, proud to be an American Atheist 02:56 Tools
On The Boardwalk In Atlantic City 01:58 Tools
Darktown Strutter's Ball 02:10 Tools
Dem Golden Slippers 03:23 Tools
Tica Ti Tica Ta 01:34 Tools
Sing A Song Of Sixpence 02:03 Tools
Episode 60: From Adventist to Apostate, Part 2 With Dustin Williams 02:13 Tools
Season 2, Episode 53: Recovering from Religion with Darrel Ray 02:09 Tools
You Can't See The Sun When You're Cryin' 02:20 Tools
Season 2, Episode 41: The First Noelle — Secular Center Charity 02:03 Tools
Episode 35: The COI2009 so you don’t forget the code episode 02:03 Tools
Star Dust 03:05 Tools
Pistol Packin' Mama 02:01 Tools
Bagel And Lox 03:13 Tools
I’m Bound for the Promised Land 02:14 Tools
Oooh! Ain't She Pretty 03:13 Tools
Episode 29: Socratic Counter-evangelism 02:03 Tools
Season 02, Episode 01: The FIRST ANNIVERSARY EPISODE, with professor PZ Myers! 02:01 Tools
Jingle Bells 03:05 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball 02:14 Tools
Jeepers Creepers 02:27 Tools
Down, Down, Down 03:01 Tools
Sleepy Time Gal 02:40 Tools
A SLIP OF A LIP CAN SINK A SHIP 01:51 Tools
What Did He Say? 03:13 Tools
Episode 26: Seventh Day Madventists 01:51 Tools
Episode 30: Shambling toward Abaddon, towing James Morrow 01:51 Tools
Episode 63: The Nature Of Existence Revisited With Roger Nygard 01:51 Tools
Episode 62: Post Election And Other Political Nonsense 01:51 Tools
All God´s Chillum Got Shot 01:51 Tools
'Taint So, Honey, 'Taint So 02:14 Tools
Running Wild 02:14 Tools
Darktown Strutters' Ball 02:14 Tools
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) 03:13 Tools
Oh, Dem Golden Slippers 02:14 Tools
On The Sunny Side Of The Street 03:13 Tools
Red River Valley 02:14 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 02:14 Tools
Tica Ti, Tica Ta 03:01 Tools
Episode 17: Sickles and Hammers and Bears. OH MY! 02:40 Tools
Breaking Our Jesus Glasses 02:40 Tools
Episode 14: Hate-free Atheism 01:51 Tools
Episode 31: Inoculating Against the God Virus 02:40 Tools
A Slip Of The Lip 02:39 Tools
DON T ROCK THE BOAT 02:39 Tools
Galaxy News Radio 02:39 Tools
Mairzy Doats 03:13 Tools
Why Should I Complain? 03:13 Tools
Tell me how long the train's been gone 02:39 Tools
Nobody's Sweatheart 03:13 Tools
Season 2, Episode 42: Breaking Our Jesus Glasses 03:13 Tools
Oooh! Look-a-There, Ain't She Pretty? 02:38 Tools
Episode 20: O’ Brother Richard Where Art Thou? 03:13 Tools
Episode 27: Going to the Chapel 03:13 Tools
Episode 19: New-Age, Sensitive, Platonic, Colon-Cleansing Tarot Shapes 03:13 Tools
Episode 15: Darth Jesus 03:13 Tools
Episode 22: Not With A Ten-Foot Pole—Abortion 03:13 Tools
Episode 21: Hamming Up The Secular Threat 03:13 Tools
Episode 18: Out Both Ends 03:13 Tools
Episode 28: God hates Nate Phelps 03:13 Tools
Episode 25: Sixteen Points of Inanity 03:13 Tools
Calliope Jane 03:13 Tools
Episode 9: God Hath Spoken 03:13 Tools
Until 03:13 Tools
Episode 24: Preaching to the Choir 03:13 Tools
Episode 5: The Church of Brother Richard 02:38 Tools
Shoo - Shoo Baby 02:01 Tools
Season 2, Episode 36: The FIRST ANNIVERSARY EPISODE, with Professor PZ Myers! 02:01 Tools
Episode 7: Herding Cats 02:01 Tools
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The Charioteers was an American gospel and pop vocal group from 1930 to 1957. Gospel purists may feel that what was done to the Charioteers is something like trying to turn a chariot into a Corvette. The black gospel group, newly transformed into a vocal pop group by enterprising record company executives, failed to turn the desired commercial quarter with the momentum of the Ink Spots. An early vehicle for lead tenor Billy Williams, who would have an even more successful career on his own, the Charioteers left behind a respectable recorded legacy nonetheless in both the gospel and pop genres. The group was first formed in Ohio in 1930, and by 1937 had settled into a vocal lineup of Williams, second tenor Ed Jackson, baritone Ira Williams, and bass Howard Daniels, with piano accompanist Jimmy Sherman. Opportunities to record began after the group vanquished all contenders in a Ohio quartet contest in 1934, most notably getting a chance to cut a pair of songs for Decca that was part of the contest prize. Vocalion began actually paying the group to record several years later, resulting in a fine collection of black gospel material including jubilees, spirituals, and folk tunes such as "Wade in the Water" and "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel." The Charioteers continued in this direction until signing a contract with Columbia in 1940. The mega-label that would later tell Bob Dylan to ditch the Christian music or take a hike needed a commercial rival for the Ink Spots, who at that time were under contract to Decca. In terms of this rivalry, Williams and his group wound up like some of the chariots with shattered wheels in the climactic scenes of Ben Hur. Fortunately, however, this was the music business and not a Roman chariot race, with enjoyable victories to be savored by participants throughout the race. For the Charioteers, these began with the group's 1940 recording of Russ Morgan's song "So Long" and continued through six more chart hits. The group was also heard on the radio backing other vocal stars, including Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. In comparison, the Ink Spots had some 36 hits during the same time period and was the first name on the list for studio backup singing. The Charioteers appeared regularly on network radio, most notably Crosby's show. The group also made appearances in motion pictures and toured in the musical revue Hellzapoppin'. "On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City" was a hit record for the group in 1946. "Open the Door, Richard" was such a smash novelty song the following year that six different artists had versions on the charts, including the Charioteers. Which only makes sense, since if anything could open a door, a chariot could. In the '50s Williams literally left the group behind. He had an opportunity to present a vocal group on the television program Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, but the producers insisted the the Charioteers were too old and demanded Williams hitch up a more modern form of musical transportation. The Billy Williams Quartet was thus launched, and the Charioteers ground on with new lead singer Herbert Dickerson. There were no more hits, and a steadily diminishing presence on-stage until the group called it quits in 1957. Williams, who was the first live guest on the American Bandstand show, died in Chicago in the early '70s. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.