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The song's title is borrowed from a hymn that was popular in the nineteenth century American South with fasola singers. “Gethsemane”, written by English clergyman Thomas Haweis in 1792, begins with the lines “Dark was the night, cold was the ground / on which my Lord was laid.” [3] Music historian Mark Humphrey describes Johnson's composition as an impressionistic rendition of ...
"It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" was one of the first songs recorded by Johnson for Columbia Records.The session took place in Dallas, Texas, on December 3, 1927. [3] Columbia released it as his second single on the then-standard 78 rpm record format, with "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" as the second side. [5]
Blind Willie Johnson was born on January 25, 1897, in Pendleton, Texas, a small town near Temple, Texas, to sharecropper Dock Johnson and Mary King. [2] His family, which according to the blues historian Stephen Calt included at least one younger brother (named Carl), moved to the agriculturally rich community of Marlin, where Johnson spent most of his childhood.
December 3, 1927, Dallas, Texas "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (Columbia 14303-D) "I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole" (Columbia 14276-D) "If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down" ("Oh Lord If I Had My Way") (Columbia 14343-D)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas History The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas , was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...
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People often use the simple mnemonic spring forward, fall back to remember to set clocks forward one hour (e.g., from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.) in the spring and backward one hour (e.g., from 2 a.m. to 1 ...
On Sunday, March 12, at 2 a.m., clocks in most parts of the United States will spring forward one hour as daylight saving time (DST) begins, running until Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. And even though ...