First-Time Buyers Guide To American Negro Spirituals

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Tracklist

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1Precious Lord, Take My Hand
recording of:
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
lyricist and arranger:
Thomas A. Dorsey (blues and gospel musician aka “Georgia Tom”)
additional composer:
Thomas A. Dorsey (blues and 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)
zither 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 Phillips53:11