Well I promised a supplemental - I didn't really expect that it would be as big as the 4 parts already posted! Dr. Hep Cat was busy tapping some of his sources for this so some additional thank yous are in order - Mr. Robert Laughton & Mr. John Glassburner were extremely helpful in filling the gaps that we had - particularly on the older tracks. If you take your previous four parts extract them to a single folder, then drop these in, sort by album name, then year and you should have them in order - you will find 5 or 6 duplicates, I think the tracks from this group will be the better sounding. Once you are finished you will be in possession of the largest, most complete set ever assembled!
A reminder that this is primarily th work of Dr Hep Cat, I helped, but the bulk of the material came from him - there will even be a suplimental as he has come up with even more but this was already uploaded and you can't delete Embedupload items.
"Pioneers in gospel like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Ward Singers had
taken gospel music beyond the confines of the church and in the '50s
New York disc jocky and gospel singer Thurman Ruth began to present
his Gospel Caravans at the Apollo. Thurman remembered the Swanees as
"the greatest singing group that I had at the Apollo. They were
terrific. I had them with another big-name group and the big name was
closing. But the Swanee
Quintet was so tough that I had to let them close the show."
By the '60s the sales of the Swanee Quintet's singles were dipping
and though Nashboro released albums like 1960's 'What About Me',
1962's 'The Anniversary Album', 1963's 'Meetin' Tonight' and 1964's
'Soul Stirring Gospel' the golden age for the group seemed to be over.
But then "Mister Dynamite", James Brown, took an interest in the
Swanee's dwindling career.
Brown had once worked as a shoe shine boy outside the WGAC radio
station in Augusta (where the Swanees had their afternoon radio
programme). The shoe shine boy grew up listening to the Swanee Quintet and
in his teenage years secularised the sound of Ruben Willingham and the
Swanees to start James Brown & The Famous Flowers. The R&B
star took the Swanee
Quintet under his wing and gave them a spot in his touring review
and even produced a single, "Try Me Father", with them. As it turned
out, even with the James Brown Band behind them the single, on
Crescent Records, a gospelisation of Brown's 1958 hit "Try Me", was
not a success. Shortly after that session Ruben Willingham left the
Quintet to enter the ministry and perform as a solo singer, although
on his first recordings in 1969 he used the Swanees as a backing
group. Johnny Jones was briefly tempted into an unsuccessful
mainstream R&B career, but he too rejoined the Swanees from time
to time.
The group brought in replacement lead singers Percy Griffin and
Clarence Murray and, though not at the same pace as of old, continued
to tour and, occasionally, record. The Swanee Quintet recorded albums like
'Eternal Life' (AIR, 1992), 'Just One Rose Will Do' (AIR, 1995), 'So
Glad' (AIR, 1998) and 'The New Walk' (Gospel Jubilee, 2000). In 2002
James "Big Red" Anderson was inducted into the Gospel Hall Of Fame
while the following year J R Riles, with the help of fellow Augustans
recognised the historical significance of the veteran gospellers by
honouring the group by naming a street Swanee Quintet Boulevard."
I had mentioned that Dr Hep Cat and I were working on this and we have managed to create a 4 part collection of over 100 songs! Today I will offer parts 1 & 2, covering a period from 1953 to 1967. The history below comes from the excellent blog Cross Rythms by Tony Cummings. If you click on the name here or on the 'see more below it will take you there.
"The Swanee Quintet
are gospel music survivors - an old style vocal group who over the
decades have travelled the Gospel Highway playing everything from
humble storefront churches to Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden.
They are also a group who were called gospel's "countriest" act by
gospel authority Anthony Heilbut (meaning the Swanee's sound was raw
and rural rather than veering towards the white sounds of Nashville)
yet a group sophisticated enough to record and tour with Soul Brother
No 1, James Brown. While hosting a TV special opening the remodelled
Apollo Theatre, actor/comedian Bill Cosby said that one of his
favourite memories "was watching the Swanee Quintet excite the Apollo
audience with their special brand of gospel music."
The origins of the group go back to 1939 when a trio - consisting of
Charlie Barnwell, Rufus Washington and William "Pee Wee" Crawford -
toured Georgia and South Carolina. Based in Augusta, Georgia, they
added two other members, James "Big Red" Anderson and Ruben W
Willingham, and by 1945 the group were operating as the Swanee Quintet with
Willingham on lead vocals, Crawford dropping his vocal duties to
concentrate on playing his un-mistakeable guitar and the other members
harmonising. The group's name was as downhome as their music, gospel authority
Chris Smith observing, "The Swanee Quintet [was] closer than most
people have got to the correct spelling since Stephen Foster altered
the Suwannee River to fit his tune."
For several years the Swanees were featured on a daily radio programme
in Augusta. Eventually in 1951 the group came to the attention of
Nashville entrepreneur Ernie Young who had formed Nashboro Records, a
label with a close link to Ernie's Record mart retail, mail order and
distribution house. From the outset, Ernie Young had hit upon a
reliable niche market for gospel music amongst Southern blacks and
with regular exposure on the influential Nashville radio station WLAC
he had a ready sales outlet in Ernie's Record Mart. The first 78s
released on Nashboro by the Silvertone Jubilee Singers, Zachery's
Heavenly Gospelaires and the Skylarks were moderate but as the '50s
rolled on regular play on WLAC of Nashboro's growing roster of
downhome gospel purveyors like the Consolers, Edna Gallmon Cooke,
Professor Harold Boggs and The Swanee Quintet the hits began to come.
It was the Quintet's 1953 single "Sit Down Servant" they broke big on
the gospel market. Wrote Chris Smith, "The song had all the
ingredients that were to be typical of their style over the years:
Crawford's bluesy guitar riffs, the mighty background chords of
Anderson, Barnwell and Washington (these three formed the Swanee's
backing vocal team for over 30 years) and above all the fierce
preaching and singing of Ruben Willingham, moving with an easy grace
from speech to song to something in between." More successful Swanee Quintet singles like "Cry Sometime" (1954),
"It's Hard To Get Along" and "I'm Alright Now" (1955) and "Race To
Run" and "Jesus Won't Fail" (1956) followed. Chris Smith described Rev
Ruben Willingham as the "testifier par excellence" and certainly his
rasping exhortations to keep faith in Christ were as exciting as
anything in gospel. If Willingham's singing needed anything to make it
perfect, it was a foil, someone to supply contrast. "Big Red" would
sing falsettos in the background, but in 1956 the group went to the
next level when the Quintet became a sextet when Little Johnny Jones
joined. The addition of Jones' sweet high tenor to the group's vocal
armoury was a revelation. More singles like "Come See About Me" (1957)
and "Sleep On Mother" and "Over In Zion" (1958) and "My Father's Land"
(1959) were good but it was their "New Walk" single recorded in August
1959, with its stately but impassioned beginning suddenly transforming
into an uptempo, church wrecking romp, that is considered a classic.
Chris Smith wrote about the Quintet, "As the years passed there was
little change to the Swanee's sound; they and Nashboro kept up with
musical fashion adding various combinations of bass, piano, organ and
drums at times, but luckily these were usually well and unobtrusively
played and they don't distract, either from the vocalists or from
Crawford's guitar work."....see more
A reminder that this is primarily th work of Dr Hep Cat, I helped, but the bulk of the material came from him - there will even be a suplimental as he has come up with even more but this was already uploaded and you can't delete Embedupload items.
The group's name was as downhome as their music, gospel authority
Chris Smith observing, "The Swanee Quintet [was] closer than most
people have got to the correct spelling since Stephen Foster altered
the Suwannee River to fit his tune." 
More successful Swanee Quintet singles like "Cry Sometime" (1954),
"It's Hard To Get Along" and "I'm Alright Now" (1955) and "Race To
Run" and "Jesus Won't Fail" (1956) followed. Chris Smith described Rev
Ruben Willingham as the "testifier par excellence" and certainly his
rasping exhortations to keep faith in Christ were as exciting as
anything in gospel. If Willingham's singing needed anything to make it
perfect, it was a foil, someone to supply contrast. "Big Red" would
sing falsettos in the background, but in 1956 the group went to the
next level when the Quintet became a sextet when Little Johnny Jones
joined. The addition of Jones' sweet high tenor to the group's vocal
armoury was a revelation. More singles like "Come See About Me" (1957)
and "Sleep On Mother" and "Over In Zion" (1958) and "My Father's Land"
(1959) were good but it was their "New Walk" single recorded in August
1959, with its stately but impassioned beginning suddenly transforming
into an uptempo, church wrecking romp, that is considered a classic. 