Artist's albums
Brothers
1973 · album
Let The Music Get Down In Your Soul
1997 · album
Up Above My Head
1995 · album
The Rance Allen Group
1972 · album
Truth Is Where It's At
1972 · album
The Best Of The Rance Allen Group
1988 · compilation
Straight From The Heart
1978 · album
Love Makes The World Go Around
2021 · single
Love Makes The World Go Around (Radio Edit)
2021 · single
I'm So Glad It's Christmas
2020 · single
A Soulful Experience
2020 · EP
A Soulful Experience
1975 · album
Live from San Francisco
2016 · album
Celebrate (Deluxe Edition)
2014 · album
Celebrate
2014 · album
Amazing Grace
2012 · album
The Live Experience II
2011 · album
Say My Friend
2011 · album
Closest Friend
2007 · album
The Live Experience
2004 · album
All the Way
2003 · album
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Biography
In the late `60s, the Monroe,MI-reared Rance Allen Group (Rance and his brothers, Steve and Tom), started performing gospel versions of popular R&B hits of the era. They were musicians with big voices and Rance was lead guitarist. They were discovered by legendary talent scout and radio promoter Dave Clark in 1971. He landed them a deal with Stax Records - the Memphis-based recording home to the likes of Isaac Hayes and Johnny Taylor at the time. Under the Stax/Gospel Truth banner, the group recorded an armful of pioneering gospel albums that mixed R&B and funk grooves with inspirational messages such as "Just My Salvation," a gospel remake of the Temptations' classic, "Just My Imagination." Their music influenced a generation of younger gospel acts such as The Winans, Fred Hammond and Kirk Franklin. By the mid-1980s, the group had disbanded and Rance became a pastor of a Toledo, OH church. In the `90s, former Stax President, Al Bell, lured the group out of retirement. They recorded their R&B crossover smash "Miracle Worker" for his Bellmark label in 1994. Since 2002, the group has recorded with Tyscot Records where they have developed a new audience of fans with bonafide gospel radio hits such as "Closest Friend," "You That I Trust" and their signature song, "Something About the Name Jesus."