Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical

A background segment, with narration from singer Willie Mae Ford Smith, about gospel music pioneer, professor Thomas A. Dorsey, followed by portions of his own interview, in Say Amen, Somebody — The Good News Musical, 1982.

Opening director George Nierenberg’s celebrated feature documentary, in it’s 2019 restoration, from Milestone Films, we meet St. Louis-based gospel music superstar Willie Mae Ford Smith, in Say Amen, Somebody — The Good News Musical, 1982.

From a St. Louis (technically St. Charles, Mo.) radio station tribute to a service honoring the main subject of the documentary, singer Willie Mae Ford Smith, at Rev. William Collins Jr.’s Antioch Baptist Church, and a song composed by the also-featured Thomas A. Dorsey, led by an O’Neal twin (Edward or Edgar?) in Say Amen, Somebody — The Good News Musical, 1982.

Trailer promoting the 2019 restoration of the acclaimed documentary by George Nierenberg, Say Amen, Somebody, 1982, featuring singer Willie Mae Ford Smith and composer and educator Thomas A. Dorsey.