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Amen Corner was a Welsh R&B-tinged pop band of the '60s featuring singer Andy Fairweather Low, organist Blue Weaver, guitarist Neil Jones, bassist Clive Taylor, saxophonists Allen Jones and Mike Smith, and drummer Dennis Bryon. They scored the first of their six British chart hits with "Gin House" in the summer of 1967. "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice" went to number one in early 1969. By then, Fairweather Low had become a teenage heartthrob and the band had switched management and record companies, but they split up by the end of the year. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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After lying dormant for almost a decade, The Amen Corner was revived for a Broadway production in 1964 (Blues for Mr Charlie, Baldwin's second play, had opened at a theatre up the road). Later the same year, an entirely different production, directed by Lloyd Richards, toured Europe. By then, Baldwin was a celebrated author, and he followed his play to Berlin, Paris and Jerusalem, giving parties, greeting equally famous friends. But the theme - the meaning of salvation - never lost its urgency for him, just as the storefront church on the slum street corner, rocking and rolling, never lost its visceral excitement:
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The name Amen Corner refers to hole Nos. 11, 12 and 13. Amen Corner was first coined in a 1958 Sports Illustrated article by Herbert Warren Wind. Wind was searching for an appropriate name for the location where the critical action had taken place that year. He borrowed the name from an old jazz recording "Shoutin' in that Amen Corner". (Courtesy masters.org)
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The Amen Corner belongs to a trio of works with an identical theme which James Baldwin wrote in the early 1950s. Its companions are the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1954) and the essay 'Notes of a Native Son.' In each, the background is provided by a Harlem family with a close involvement in the local pentecostal church, of a type which still dots the streets of uptown New York today. The church in The Amen Corner is unnamed, but it could be the Little Widow's Mite Church, on Lenox Avenue, or the Church of the Holy Agony, in a tenement round the corner; or the hand-painted sign outside the door could say the Temple of the Fire Baptised, which is the name given to the church in Go Tell It on the Mountain, in which the 'fire and excitement' of the singing and the beating tambourines caused the church to 'rock'. Likewise, in Baldwin's 'trilogy', the hero is always a boy who is wrestling with his faith - not to confirm the Lord's embrace, but to free himself from it; to step out, as Luke says in the play, "into the world".
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According to the Master’s Web site, the term Amen Corner was given to holes 11, 12, and 13 in an attempt to describe Arnold Palmer’s miraculous play in the 1958 Masters. Though a highly controversial set of circumstances on these holes led to Palmer capturing the major championship, the name stuck. Holes 11–13 at Augusta National have since been called Amen Corner.
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Amen Corner (church) is a place in Leeds at the corner of Armley, Bramley and Kirkstall where the monks from Kirkstall Abbey were reputed to complete their prayers and say "Amen". A church is now built on the site.
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