Dixie Hummingbirds

Dixie Hummingbirds

The Dixie Hummingbirds (formerly known as The Sterling High School Quartet) are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today. The Hummingbirds inspired a number of imitators, such as Jackie Wilson and James Brown, who adapted the shouting style and enthusiastic showmanship of hard gospel to secular themes to help create soul music in the 1960s.

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1939 - 1957

Roles Represented in DAHR: Vocal group

= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.

Recordings (Results 1-25 of 50 records)

Company	Matrix No.	Size	First Recording Date	Title	Primary Performer	Role
Peacock	ACA 2099	10-in.	approximately 1952	What are they doing in heaven today	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Paul Owens	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2100	10-in.	approximately 1952	I know I've been changed	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Ira Tucker	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2101	10-in.	approximately 1952	Wading through blood and water	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Ira Tucker	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2102	10-in.	approximately 1952	Wading through blood and water	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2241	10-in.	approximately 1953	Trouble in my way	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Beachy Thompson ; Ira Tucker	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2242	10-in.	approximately 1953	Lord if I go	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2243	10-in.	approximately 1953	Eternal life	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2244	10-in.	approximately 1953	Well done	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2245	10-in.	approximately 1953	I trust in god	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2246	10-in.	approximately 1953	Humble oil slide (?)	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2586	10-in.	approximately 1953	I'm not uneasy	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2587	10-in.	9/4/1953	Let's go out to the program	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2588	10-in.	4/11/1955	It must have been the Lord (that touched me)	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Ira Tucker	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2589	10-in.	2/19/1954	Cross Jordan in a calm time	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2590	10-in.	2/19/1954	Prayer wheel	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2591	10-in.	9/4/1953	I'll keep on living after I die	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2592	10-in.	approximately 1953	Great getting up in the morning	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2593	10-in.	approximately 1953	Sinner sin n o more	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2823	10-in.	8/26/1954	Will the Lord be with me?	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2824	10-in.	8/26/1954	Christian testimonial	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Ira Tucker	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2825	10-in.	4/11/1955	Take care of me	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2826	10-in.	12/2/1954	Sinner, sin no more	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2827	10-in.	approximately 1954	Jesus gonna meet me there	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 2828	10-in.	approximately 1954	In my savior's care	Dixie Hummingbirds	Vocal group
Peacock	ACA 3208	10-in.	6/28/1955	The life story of Madame Bethune, part l	Dixie Hummingbirds ; Otis Jackson	Vocal group

(Results 1-25 of 50 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Dixie Hummingbirds," accessed December 24, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108047.

Dixie Hummingbirds. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 24, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/108047.

"Dixie Hummingbirds." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 24 December 2025.

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