I played bass drum from 1965 until 1991, and I’ve played the snare drum ever since." “He went to my mother and asked if I could start playing in the band. "I was 13 when I joined the band,” says Perry, who is now the last original bandmember still playing with the group. Phifer began putting the group together with fellow church members in early 1965. So he gave permission to start this band, which was originally called the Number 2 Shout Band." "There was already another band, the McCullough Tigers, but the had word come down that the Mother Church was too big for just one band. "The order came directly from Bishop Daddy McCullough to start another band,” says Cedric Mangum, who joined the group in 1969, and would later take over leadership of the Clouds Of Heaven in 1976. All of this for a group that grew out of the church’s need for more music. The group has seen its share of changes, and has seen its membership pass from one generation to another. The Clouds Of Heaven recently celebrated their 50th anniversary, and will play at the church again on September 15th for the annual Gospelshout event. We’d go to a restaurant bathroom to freshen up.” "We’d didn’t sleep in the hotel.“ Perry recalls. Stanley Perry shakes his head as he thinks about the early days of the Clouds Of Heaven, the flagship Shout Band for the Charlotte, NC mother church of the United House Of Prayer For All People.
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