Harold Washington Library Center
Visual & Performing Arts
Jubilee Showcase Gospel Music Video Collection
One of the longest-running programs in Chicago television history, Jubilee Showcase was aired for 21 years, January 10, 1963, through January 8, 1984, on WLS-TV, the ABC Network station in Chicago.
Presenting the widest variety of gospel and inspirational music, this historic, pioneering program reached a vast audience every Sunday morning and featured America's greatest gospel artists, including many of Chicago's finest singers, musicians, and choral groups.
The great majority of performers, some now nationally and internationally acclaimed, made their television debuts on Jubilee Showcase. The program received high praise and recognition, including "The Emmy" from the Television Academy. Through the generosity of host/producer Sid Ordower, approximately one hundred Jubilee Showcase programs were made available to the Chicago Public Library for transfer to videocassettes from the original master tapes using a special digital process.
A sampling of the photographs in the collection is found in the Jubilee Showcase Photo Gallery.
Some additional performers on videotape include:
| Argo Singers Harold Bailey Singers Martha Bass Alex Bradford Singers Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church Inspirational Choir Jerry Bratton Willie Brown Earl Calloway Chicago Pentecostal Choir Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church Choirs Otis Clay Clefs of Faith Beatrice Alford Clency Charles Clency Ozella Clifton Lucy Smith Collier Corinthian Temple Church of God in Christ Radio Choir Katie Davis Singers Archie Dennis, Jr. Jessy Dixon Singers Willie Dixon Duncanaires Emanon Choral Ensemble J.J. Farley Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Choir First Church of Deliverance Choir First Church of Love & Faith Choirs Clarence Fountain Fountain of Life Baptist Church Choir Charles Geiger Cassietta George Ralph H. Good Gospel Chimes Gospel Songbirds Greater Bethesda Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir Irma Gwynn Elsa Harris R.H. Harris James Herndon |
Highway QC’s Ethel Holloway Josephine Howard Hulah Gene Hurley Hutchinson Sunbeams Inspirational Singers Institutional Radio Choir of Brooklyn, N.Y. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Rev. Myrtle Jackson Spencer Jackson Family Josephine James Vernard Johnson Jimmy Jones Rev. George Jordan Rev. Stanley Keeble Connie Kinnison Aldrea Lenox Liberty Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir Lighthouse Baptist Church Choir Arthur Logan Singers Loving Sisters George Mays Norsalus McKissick McLin Ensemble Meditation Singers Bill Moss & Celestials Mt. Hebron Baptist Church Youth Choir Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church Choirs New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church Choirs New Friendship Baptist Church Inspirational Choir Norfleet Brothers Dorothy Norwood Singers Loretta Oliver Omega Baptist Church Choir O’Neal Twins Operation Breadbasket Choir Operation Push Choir Philharmonic Youth Choir Pilgrim Jubilees Lorenza Brown |