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12571939, Various (Motown) Artists - In Loving Memory
Posted by b.Touch, Sun Sep-07-14 03:01 PM
This was a whole album released in 1968 (though recorded years earlier) in memory of Berry Gordy's sister, Mrs. Louyce Gordy Wakefield, who was an executive at Motown.

Because it's a Motown album, the songs are closer to a middle-ground between "Black gospel" and "White gospel" than one might expect. Or if you know the MOR side of 60's Motown, it's about what you'd expect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Loving_Memory_(compilation_album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuBPkqW73xw - "He" by Diana Ross (no Supremes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg8T-_tKboI - "His Eye is On the Sparrow" - Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEeQAr95lUI - "The Lord's Prayer" by Paul Williams (if there are any other Temptations in that gigantic chorus behind him, I can't pick them out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28abdrLsp6c - "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" -by Stevie Wonder