![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Jimmy Swaggart Ministries owns and operates the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN) and he is the senior pastor of Family Worship Center located on Blue Bonnet Blvd. In 1980, he received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Performance for Traditional Gospel. During the 1970s and 1980s, he sold in excess of 17 million LP albums. Swaggart plays piano and sings in a baritone voice. His “Crusades” enabled him to travel throughout the contiguous United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and South America. Īt the height of his popularity in the 1980s, his telecast was transmitted in excess of 3,000 stations and cable systems each week. and on 78 channels in 104 countries, and over the Internet. The weekly Jimmy Swaggart Telecast and A Study in the Word programs are broadcast throughout the U.S. The television ministry, which began in 1971, and originally known as the “Camp Meeting Hour”, has a viewing audience both in the U.S. Jimmy Lee Swaggart ( / ˈ s w æ ɡ ər t/ born March 15, 1935) is an American Pentecostal televangelist. The tune not only got extensive airplay on radio stations of all sizes, but also garnered a lot of jukebox play, a rarity. ^ Russ Cheatham - Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story - "'Wasted Years' was released as a single before the album was issued and was by far the biggest hit of all the Sons' records.Williams had formerly played piano with the John Daniel Quartet when Fowler sang with the group." Finally, in August 2000 it was revealed at the Grand Old Gospel Reunion that Albert Williams, an employee of Fowler's, actually wrote the song. Wally pitched us a song called 'Wasted Years'. Fowler was a classic entrepreneur, always looking for good business opportunities. ^ Russ Cheatham - Bad Boy of Gospel Music: The Calvin Newton Story 2003- "In 1960, Wally Fowler was still the most powerful person in southern gospel music.^ They Heard Georgia Singing - Zell Miller - 1996 "He wrote Eddy Arnold's first million-selling song, 'That s How Much I Love You' the gospel classic 'Wasted Years,' which has been recorded by fifty-six gospel groups and individuals and which Elvis Presley was scheduled to revive at the time of his death and, with Warren Roberts, 'May the Lord Bless You Real Good'.". ![]()
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