Song: Each Day
Song by and written by: Wynona Carr
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Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles
Keyboard player: Gail Nobles

Wynona Carr was a gospel, R&B, and rock and roll singer and songwriter. She recorded as Sister Wynona Carr when performing gospel material.

She was born in Cleveland, Ohio where she started out as a gospel singer, forming her. Own five-piece group The Carr Singers around 1945 and touring the Cleveland/Detroit area.

Not having too much success on the charts (except for “The Ball Game” song in 1952), which became one of Specialty label’s best selling gospel records which was featured in the movie 42), Carr grew increasingly unhappy with the straight gospel direction of her career and pleaded to record pops, jumps, ballads, and semi-blues. Overall the change from spiritual to secular music didn’t help Carr much in terms of sales or recognition.

I don’t understand it. Wynona had a way with words in her songs. I love her gospel songs. Carr wrote things in her songs that explains my feelings and words I sometimes don’t know how to express. Each Day was one of those songs. Get a little nearer each day to the Lord. It’s a true song for me. When Carr sung the gospel, her lyrics were not hard to figure out. You knew she was singing about the Lord.

I don’t understand what it was about Wynona’s day and time that she didn’t make it in the gospel. Maybe she should have kept on trying the gospel. Wynona had the songwriting talent and great voice for gospel. Maybe she was before her time or something, and it wasn’t intended for her to make it. Maybe the world wasn’t ready for her.

According to history, she tried to bridge the gap between Gospel and Blues, but when she eventually got the chance to do it, it all seemed to be working. Then her health declined.

God blessed Wynona to record the songs that she wrote. There was a blessing in it. Now, here I am today listening to those gospel songs, and her songs need to be heard today. Somebody’s listening, and somebody is needing to hear her words and the gospel music that she made.

I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to a show about the Gospel Greats. Today’s topic is Wynona Carr.