Calvin White

US gospel vocalist, songwriter from New York, NY. One of the two soloists on the Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir’s famous March, 1960 recording “Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody”. Member of the Gospel Wonders, a New York quartet and composer of “As Long as I’ve Got Jesus.” The Gospel Wonders recorded the song in 1965, but the composition achieved greater fame when it was covered in the same year by James Cleveland and the Cleveland Singers, and in the 1990s by Vickie Winans. White also appeared with Professor Alex Bradford and Marion Williams in the original company of Black Nativity. He scored a couple of pop hits, too, with a trio called the Sandpebbles, also known as C. and The Shells. Died in 2007.