Angelic Gospel Singers

A Billboard-charting singing group whose career spanned seven different decades, the Angelic Gospel Singers formed in Philadelphia in 1944. Sisters Margaret Allison and Josephine McDowell started the Singers as a quartet with friends Ella Mae Norris and Lucille Shird. The women toured through much of the Eastern half of the U.S. before signing with Gotham Records, which released their future standard "Touch Me, Lord Jesus," in 1949. With Allison backing the group on piano, their bluesy version of the Lucie Campbell-penned hymn received national radio play and reached the Top 2...