ms jackson has her due. bessie has to get hers from her maker.
"Griffin performed briefly with "Queen of Gospel" Albertina Walker & The Caravans in 1953 but spent most of her career as a solo artist. While often compared to Mahalia Jackson, Griffin had a lighter contralto that allowed her to achieve more vocal pyrotechnics --- holding a note for long periods of time, continuing a song for as long as twenty minutes and ranging through three octaves."
"After moving to Los Angeles she was signed by Art Rupe of the Specialty label. After collaboration with Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, she recorded an album on the Decca label with an orchestra: "It Takes A Lot of Love"; "Portraits in Bronze" on the Liberty label, and joined the lucrative night club circuit singing and recording gospel albums in night clubs in the 1960s. She recorded a solo album on the Savoy label which was unremarkable except as a great example of her voice, and an album with the Gospel Pearls entitled "Gospel Soul" on Sunset, a subsidiary of Liberty."
i have an audition copy of the gospel pearls on the liberty label. in my book, its priceless. its church on a platter.