ROYAL TELEPHONE

Created on 01/06/2005
Latest update on 15/09/2022

Artist: Rev. Sister Mary Nelson
Author: Frederick M. Lehman
Year: 1927

Pentacostal storefront preacher from Memphis with slightly altered lyrics. The song is at least as old as 1906.

Covers:

1927:

Blind Connie Rosemond [also issued as by Blind Arthur Lowe]

1930:

Frank & James McCravy

1935:

Happy Valley Family

1939:

Selah Jubilee Singers

1939:

Blue Sky Boys

1951:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

1960:

George Lewis

1961:

Burl Ives [as Royal Telephone (Telephone To Glory)]

1963:

Jimmy Little [hit Australia]

1964:

Gospel Harmonettes

1968:

Carl Story

1979:

Jimmy Swaggart

1998:

Lillian Boutté [as Royal Telephone To Glory]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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