First-Time Buyers Guide To American Negro Spirituals

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Tracklist

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▼CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Paul Robeson3:02
2Witness
Paul Robeson2:28
3Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho
Dixie Jubilee Singers2:43
4Blow, Gabriel, Blow
Fisk University Jubilee Singers2:10
5Deep River
Marian Anderson3:17
6Go Down Moses
Roland Hayes2:22
7Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
Dorothy Maynor3:19
8God Shall Wipe All Tears Away
Mahalia Jackson3:07
9If You See My Saviour
recording of:
If You See My Savior
lyricist and composer:
Thomas A. Dorsey (gospel musician aka “Georgia Tom”)
Thomas A. Dorsey2:54
10Twelve Gates To The City
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1935-07-26)
guitar:
Blind Gary Davis (on 1935-07-26) and Reverend Gary Davis (on 1960-08-24)
vocals:
Blind Gary Davis (on 1935-07-26) and Reverend Gary Davis (on 1960-08-24)
Reverend Gary Davis3:11
11Wade In The Water
Charioteers2:47
12Let Your Light Shine On Me
recorded in:
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States (on 1929-12-10)
guitar:
Blind Willie Johnson (on 1929-12-10)
vocals:
Blind Willie Johnson (on 1929-12-10)
recording of:
Let Your Light Shine on Me (on 1929-12-10)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson3:14
13I Stood On De Ribber Ob Jordan
Ellabelle Davis3:06
14Climbing Jacob's Ladder
New Orleans University Glee Club3:05
15Let The Church Roll On
Southern University Quartet2:30
16Old Ship Of Zion
Kenneth Spencer/Hall Johnson Negro Choir3:10
17Hear De Lambs A Cryin'/ Plenty Good Room
Roland Hayes4:46
18The Prodigal Son
The Heavenly Gospel Singers2:50
19Crucifixion
Marian Anderson4:40
20The Black Diamond Express To Hell
Rev. A.W. Nix5:53
▼CD 2
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Precious Lord, Take My Hand
recording of:
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
lyricist and arranger:
Thomas A. Dorsey (gospel musician aka “Georgia Tom”)
additional composer:
Thomas A. Dorsey (gospel musician aka “Georgia Tom”)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
previously attributed to:
George Nelson Allen (American composer from the 1800s)
The Heavenly Gospel Singers3:03
2Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Jules Bledsoe2:44
3Moan, You Moaners
Bessie Smith3:17
4Lit'l Boy (Christ in the Temple Before the Scribes)
Roland Hayes2:14
5I've Heard of a City Called Heaven
Hall Negro Quartet3:20
6Mary Don't You Weep
Utica Institute Jubilee Singers2:37
7De Ole Ark's A-Movering/Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Paul Robeson2:25
8My Lord, What a Morning
Marian Anderson3:18
9No Hiding Place
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartet2:54
10I Want Jesus to Walk Around My Bedside
Selah Jubilee Singers3:23
11Goin' on to Heaven in the Sanctified Way
Sister Cally Fancy3:10
12Steal Away to Jesus
Dorothy Maynor3:42
13De Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried
Morris Brown Quartet2:57
14Send One Angel Down
Dixie Jubilee Singers2:49
15Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
Paul Robeson2:47
16'Roun' 'Bout de Mountain
Roland Hayes2:56
17Do Lord Send Me
The Georgia Peach2:51
18True Friendship
organ:
Fats Waller (on 1927-05-17)
vocals:
Ethel Grainger (on 1927-05-17) and Odette Jackson (on 1927-05-17)
Rev. J.C. Burnett3:01
19He Got Better Things for You
Bessie Johnson2:59
20Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
recorded in:
Dallas, Texas, United States (on 1927-12-02)
dolceola and lead vocals:
Washington Phillips (on 1927-12-02)
vocals:
Washington Phillips
recording of:
Leave It There
lyricist and composer:
Charles Albert Tindley (in 1916)
George Washington Phillips3:11