Four Great Wonders

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The Four Great Wonders or Four Great Wonders Singers were a gospel quartet led by Reverend W. A. Clark. The quartet included Robert Moss and Amos Sharp as tenors, L. V. Cox of Bessemer as baritone, and Sollie J. Pugh of Birmingham singing bass.

The group recorded for RCA-Victor and was active in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Another "Four Great Wonders" gospel quartet, based in New Orleans, Louisiana, was led by Bessemer's Gilbert Porterfield.

References

  • Abbott, Lynn & Doug Seroff (2013) To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi ISBN 9781617036750
  • "Four Great Wonders Singers of Birmingham, Alabama". The Birmingham Black Radio Museum - accessed October 4, 2019