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The Gates' history on record began on a high that the group sustained right through the years of the Second World War. On 4th August 1937 they cut no less than fourteen tracks at one mammoth session in Charlotte. The very first number was fore-taste of what was to become known as InchquartetInch singing to the groups that came after them in the late forties and early fifties. Whoever wrote the text to' Jezebel' seems to have mixed up the story of Jezebel with that of Salome and John the Baptist, but there's no denying the hypnotic power of the refrain, InchYou got to go to judgment and stand your trial, you got to go to judgment and stand your trialInch leading up to InchNine days she lay in Jerusalem's streets, her flesh was too filthy for the DOGS to eat.Inch Not for the faint of heart! Another well-presented track is InchStalin Wasn't Stallin',Inch my first ever exposure to this group. Rosie the Riveter, got to finger some ration coupon books, and then heard this InchWell, now, Stalin wasn't stallin' when he told the Beast of Berlin that they'd never rest contented till they had driven him from the land, so he called the Yanks and English, and proceeded to extinguish, the Fuehrer and his vermin, this is how it all began Well, the Devil he was reading in the Good Book one day, how the Lord created Adam to walk the righteous way, and it made the Devil jealous, he got green up to his horns, and he swore by things unholy that he'd make one of his own! So he packed two suitcases full of grief and misery, then he caught the Midnight Special goin' down to Germany...Inch All this in the Golden Gate Quartet's fast-paced Jubilee Gospel style. Electrifying! But bitter irony comes with the line InchNow Adolf got the notion that he was the master race, and he swore by all things evil he'd put mankind in it's place...Inch This at a time when the Golden Gate Quartet would have
