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"Stand by Me" is a 1905 gospel song by Charles Albert Tindley. [1] Despite the song's documented origins, it has sometimes been published without attribution or erroneously listed as "traditional". [2] [3] The song is sometimes referred to as "Stand by Me Father", leading to confusion with an unrelated song with that name by Sam Cooke and J. W ...
The lyrics of the freedom song are darker than the later Joplin lyrics. For example, the second stanza of jazz versions [5] and Dock Reed's version run: [6] 2. Mary and Martha, Luke and John, All God's prophets dead and gone. Looks like everybody in this world round down on me.
Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...
The song was accepted as an authentic work in the gospel tradition; [230] in music journalist Chris Ingham's description, it became a "genuine gospel classic". [231] Many of the Christian cover artists have omitted the mantra lyrics on religious grounds. [183]
"Up Above My Head" is a gospel song of traditional origin, first recorded in 1941 (as "Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air") by The Southern Sons, a vocal group formed by William Langford of the Golden Gate Quartet. [1] In the version that is now the best-known, it was recorded in 1947 by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight as a duo.
"The Gospel Train (Get on Board)" is a traditional African-American spiritual first published in 1872 as one of the songs of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. [2] A standard Gospel song, it is found in the hymnals of many Protestant denominations and has been recorded by numerous artists. The first verse, including the chorus is as follows:
Buoyed by promised pardons of their brethren for their Jan. 6 crimes and by Trump’s embrace of popular extremist far-right figures, those groups will likely see a resurgence after January ...
Lord, I Want to Be a Christian is an African American spiritual. It was likely composed in 1750s Virginia by enslaved African-American persons exposed to the teaching of evangelist Samuel Davies. [1] The music and lyrics were first printed in the 1907 Folk Songs of the American Negro, edited by Frederick J. Work.