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Move On Up a Little Higher
"Move On Up A Little Higher" is a gospel song written by W. Herbert Brewster, first recorded by Brother John Sellers in late 1946,〔Hayes, Cedric and Robert Laughton. "The Gospel Discography, 1943-1970" (2007), Eyeball Productions, page 298 - ISBN 0-9686445-8-9〕 but most famously recorded on September 12, 1947, by gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, a version that sold eight million copies.〔Koster, Rick. ''Louisiana Music: A Journey from R&B to Zydeco, Jazz to Country, Blues to Gospel, Cajun Music...'' (2002), Da Capo Press, page 271 - ISBN 0-306-81003-4〕 The song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in (1998).〔(Grammy Hall of Fame Award )〕 In 2005, the Library of Congress honored the song by adding it to the National Recording Registry. It was also included in the list of ''Songs of the Century'', by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock.〔(500 Songs That Shaped Rock )〕
==Background==
Composer Rev. William Herbert Brewster (1897-1987) composed "Moved On Up A Little Higher," through the imagery of a "Christian climbing the ladder to heaven," the song encourages black upward mobility, hence reflecting the postwar Afro-modernist sentiments:"
:"The fight for rights here in Memphis was pretty rough on the Black church . . . and I We'll have to move in the field of education. Move into the professions and move into politics. Move in ahas to have to survive. That was a protest idea and inspiration. I was trying to inspire Black people to move up higher. Don't be mediocre he freedom fights started, before the Martin Luther King days, I had to lead a lot of protest meetings. In order to gengerous tcould sing it."〔Ramsey, Guthrie P. ''Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Music of the African Diaspora)'' (2003), University of California Press, page 52 - ISBN 0-520-24333-1〕
"Move on Up" was originally written for one of Brewster's religious pageants or passion plays. Brewster's maintained that the entire piece—lyrics, melody, and harmony—came to him in one flow, and shortly thereafter he taught the song to his principle vocal soloist, Queen C. Anderson. But it was the Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson, who, according to Brewster, "knew what to do with it. She could throw the verse out there."〔Ramsey, Guthrie P. ''Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop'', page 53〕 Producer Art Freeman insisted Jackson record "Move on Up a Little Higher"; released in early 1948, the single became the best-selling gospel record of all time, selling in such great quantities that stores could not even meet the demand.〔(Billboard Chart history )〕 Brewster was pastor of East Trigg Avenue Baptist Church, one of the churches where young Elvis Presley studied the ecstatic moves of his gospel heroes.〔Guralnick, Peter. ''Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000'', Da Capo Press, page 415 - ISBN 0-306-80999-0〕
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