Bishop Morton & The Full Gospel Baptist Choir Win Stellar Award
Bishop Morton & The Full Gospel Baptist Church Choir Win the Stellar Award for Traditional Choir of the Year.
Nashville, TN–Bishop Paul S. Morton and the Full Gospel Baptist Church Choir took home the golden Stellar statuette for Traditional Choir of the Year on their release of Embracing the Next Dimension (Tehillah Music Group/Light Records) during the 24th Stellar Gospel Music Awards, held January 17th at the Grand Ole Opry House. General Overseer Pastor William H. Murphy, III, producer and Minister of Music for Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, accepted the award on behalf of Bishop Morton and the Choir stating “We are thankful to Don Jackson and the Stellar Award committee for the honor. It speaks of the call and the assignment of the fellowship, as we continue to bring Bishop Morton’s vision into fruition.”
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Billboard Ranks Light Records as #1 Independent Gospel Label
Nashville, TN—In what is unquestionably the worst of times for the music business, Light Records has risen amongst the ranks of Gospel labels to be recognized as the fifth ranked label in Billboards Year End Gospel Chart. With the top four spots being dominated by major labels, Light Records is the only independent label on the list earning it the title of #1 Independent Gospel Label in 2008.
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Bishop Paul S. Morton- Cry Your Last Tear
With a flood of projects hitting the shelves in the mid ‘90s, the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship Mass Choir introduced a movement that symbolically brought the best of gospel music to the church experience. With Bishop Paul Morton leading the newly-formed Baptist organization, the annual assembled choir – led by A. Jeffery LaValley and Byron Cage – turned out a number of best-selling albums including A New Thing and Bow Down and Worship Him. What surprised many inside and outside the organization is how Morton pulled some of the greatest songwriters and singers like BeBe Winans, the Williams Brothers, Kirk Franklin and Ann Nesby into the recordings. Strong material with big names gave Morton a solid advantage with his core fan base and his toughest skeptics. That prominence began to shrink by 2000 as new shifts and ideas were incorporated. Since then, the church fellowship’s recordings, except for the Sanchez Harley-supported Daughters of the Promise project released in 2002, have placed more emphasis on praise-and-worship. And even with the recent saga of Morton’s beloved Greater St. Stephens suffering from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina and a church fire in 2007, Bishop Paul S. Morton still remains busy with putting out solo projects and recordings from the Full Gospel music ministries. On Cry Your Last Tear, the Bishop once again “introduces” his choir during their 2008 convention in Birmingham, Alabama and whips out a lengthy nineteen-track offering filled with ministerial moments, interludes, spoken word introductions and big doses of slow-paced worship music.
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