Jubilee Showcase premiered 50 years ago on WLS-TV. Airing Sunday mornings from 1963 to 1984, the groundbreaking, locally-produced show featured most of Chicago’s (and the nation’s) best-known gospel ...

Almost 57 years later, James Herndon can still remember the first time he appeared on TV. On June 9th, 1963, the singer-pianist made his television debut on Chicago’s Jubilee Showcase as a member of ...

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One by one, the gospel groups step before the cameras and bring forth a joyful sound. There’s Roebuck “Pops” Staples, sweetly playing his electric guitar and singing “Wish I Had Answered,” while Mavis ...

For more than 20 years a quarter of a million people spent an hour of their Sunday mornings in the church of television. From 8-9 a.m. on WLS-Ch. 7 they watched one of the most unusual and important ...