Fountain, Clarence
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Birth Date
- 1929-11-28
Death Date
- 2018-06-03
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Blind Boys of Alabama
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1948
- Organization: (naf) Five Blind Boys of Alabama
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation End: 1948
- Organization: Happy Land Jubilee Singers
Birth Place
- Tyler (Ala.)
Associated Locale
- Baton Rouge (La.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: His Clarence Fountain and golden moments in gospel [SR] p1978:label (Clarence Fountain)
- found: Voices of Civil Rights Project collection, 2003-2006:recorded interview and transcript, Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress (Clarence Fountain; b. Nov. 20, 1929, lead singer for the The Blind Boys of Alabama)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed June 7, 2018(in obituary published June 6: Clarence Fountain; b. Nov. 28, 1929, Tyler, Ala.; grew up in Selma; d. Sunday [June 3, 2018], Baton Rouge, La., aged 88; sang gospel music fit to call down the heavens as the leader of the award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama for more than 60 years (founded in Talladega, Ala. in the mid-1940s as the Happy Land Jubilee Singers; name changed in 1948 to the Five Blind Boys of Alabama; they have used variations on that name ever since, including Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama)
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Change Notes
- 1993-05-14: new
- 2018-06-07: revised
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