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Theola Kilgore

This Oakland, CA native began singing in church and progressed into an popular professional gospel singer in Oakland and surrounding areas. She befriended J. W. Alexander, Sam Cooke’s supervisor who presented her to vocalist/manufacturer/article writer Ed Townsend; with Townsend, Kilgore trim her initial secular documenting, a remedy to Cooke’s “String …

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