Filmed live on the 7th May 1964 by Granada TV a Manchester based TV station (thanks to producer John Hamp) here's Sister Rosetta Tharpe in her element at the abandoned Wilbraham Road Station. Not even a Manchester drizzle could dampen Tharpe’s performance. As she descends from a horse-drawn carriage, straps a guitar over her voluminous coat and lays into the gospel classic Didn’t It Rain, her listeners start clapping on the backbeat - possibly the first recorded example of that phenomenon in a l
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