Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 1 Important sources: BURLEIGH DISCOGRAPHY Solo Songs & Arrangements *Courtesy of Randye Jones, The Spirituals Database Tim Brooks. Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1890-1919. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Turner, Patricia. Dictionary of Afro-American Performers: 78 RPM and Cylinder Recordings of Opera, Choral Music, and Song, c. 1900-1949. New York: Garland, 1990. Please note that in some cases the documentation is incomplete. Albrecht, Sally, pianist The Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh Low Voice Piano Accompaniment Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 2007 Disk 1-1. Ev ry Time I Feel de Spirit 2. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 3. Steal Away 4. Don t Be Weary Traveler 5. I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock 6. Oh, Didn t It Rain 7. 8. Stan Still Jordan 9. Give Me Jesus 10. 11. Were You There 12. Wade in de Water 13. O Rocks, Don t Fall on Me 14. Little David, Play on Your Harp 15. 16. Ain t Goin To Study War No Mo 17. 18. Weepin Mary 19. 20. Couldn t Hear Nobody Pray 21. Go Down in De Lonesome Valley 22. I Know De Lord s Laid His Hands On Me 23. I Stood On De Ribber Ob Jerdon 24. De Blin Man Stood On De Road An Cried 25. By An By Disk 2 1. He s Jus De Same To-Day 2. Balm in Gilead 3. De Gospel Train 4. Nobody Knows De Trouble I ve Seen 5. Behold That Star 6. I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired 7. John s Gone Down On De Island 8. You May Bury Me in De Eas 9. Oh, Wasn t Dat A Wide Ribber? 10. Ride On, King Jesus!
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 2 11. Go Tell It ON De Mountains! 12. Hard Trials 13. I ve Been in De Storm So Long 14. Hear De Lambs A-Cryin 15. My Way s Cloudy 16. Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler 17. Don t You Weep When I m Gone 18. Didn t My Lord Deliver Daniel? 19. Sinner, Please Doan Let Dis Harves Pass 20. Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho 21. I Want To Be Ready 22. Oh Peter Go Ring-A Dem Bells 23. Tis Me, O Lord *Alexander, Roberta, soprano Songs My Mother Taught Me Piano, CD Etctera KTC 1208, 1999 Didn t It Rain? Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile Althouse, Paul, tenor with orchestra Pathe Freres B 27005 Just You *Amaize, Odekhiren, bass-baritone For Darfur! Irin Ajo and other Sacred Songs and Spirituals Piano, CD - MSR Classics MS 1296, 2008 Anderson, Marian, contralto *Arias, Songs and Spirituals. 2 original recordings 1930-1947 CD Naxos, 2004 *The Art of Marian Anderson,: Arias Songs and LP - His Master s Voice EG 29001614, 1986 I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired Bach, Brahms, Schubert CD - RCA Victor 7911-2-RG, 1989 My Lord, What a Morning *The Best of Negro Spirituals CD - BMG BVCM-37516, 2003 Hard Trials *Deep River 78 RPM - RCA Victor 2032, 194-? Ev ry Time I Feel The Spirit De Gospel Train *Farewell recital LP - RCA Victor LSC 2781, 1964 Ride On, King Jesus
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 3 A First Time Buyer s Guide to American Negro Spirituals Primo PRMCD 6038, 2006 My Lord, What a Morning Folk Song in America: A 20 th -Century Revival - Smithsonian Collection of Recordings RD 046-1, 1991 Victor 1799A CLP LSX 64 *Good news: Vintage Negro Spirituals CD - Living Era AJA 5622, 2006 Great Singers from the CBC VAI 68412 Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit *Great Spirituals -- 7 Vinyl - RCA Victor ERA 62, 195-? *Great Voices of the Century CD - Memoir Classics CDMOIR 432, 1996 Heav n, Heav n (I Got a Robe) He s Got the Whole World in His Hands LP - Victor LM/LSC 2592, 1962 Behold That Star Hard Trials I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon Oh, Didn t It Rain? Oh, Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells Oh, Wasn t Dat a Wide Ribber Scandalize My Name *Lady, The CD, 1996 - Magnum Music MCCD 017 I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired *Lebendige Vergangenheit CD - Austro Mechana Histroic Recordings, 2004 I Don t Feel No-Ways tired Marian Anderson 1902-1993 CD Prima Voce Nimbus Records NI 7882 No arrangers identified I Don t Feel No-ways Tired
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 4 Marian Anderson: Bach, Brahms, Schubert CD The RCA Victor Vocal Series 7911-2-RG, 1989 no arranger listed *Marian Anderson: Portraits in Memory CD - Metropolitan Opera Guild MET 220, 1993 Hard Trials Marian Anderson: A Portrait in Music VAI DVD 4278 Marian Anderson: A Recital- Opera, Lieder, Oratorio CD - Symposium 1270-1923 - 1924 *Marian Anderson in Concert 1943-1952 Orchestra, CD - Eklipse Records EKR CD19, 1993 De Gospel Train Marian Anderson: Rarities Broadcast Performances 1943-1952 CD VAI Audio, VAIA 1200 Remastered and restored 2001 De Gospel Train Marian Anderson Sings Schubert, Bach, Mendelssohn and others, 1994 *Marian Anderson Sings Spirituals CD - Flapper Past CD 7073, 1995 *Marian Anderson: The Lady from Philadelphia CD - Pearl GEMM CD 9069, 1993 Hard Trials I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired Marian Anderson Volume 1 CD Pearl, 1992 *Met Stars in the New World CD - Victor 8958 (CS 98637) 1/14/36 Negro Spirituals: 1924-1949 Frémeaux & Associés, 2004 - Pierre Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, March 1949 I Don t Feel No Ways Tired
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 5 *Negro Spirituals: The Concert Tradition 1909-1948 -- CD - Fremeaux & Associates FA 168, 1999 My Lord, what a morning New World Recorded Anthology of American Music *Recital: Opera, Lieder, Oratorio CD - SYM1270.2 - Symposium, 2005 *Prima Voce CD - Nimbus NI 7882, 1996 I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired Rare and Unpublished Recordings, 1936-1952 VAI Audio VAIA 1168 1998 Sinner, Please Doan Let Dis Harves Pass - 6/26/39 *Rare Live Broadcast Performances CD - VAI VAIA 1275, 2013 My Way s Cloudy Hard Trials Rarities Broadcast Performances 1943-1952 - VAI Audio VAIA - 2001 De Gospel Train A Recital Symposium 1270 *A Recital: Opera, Lieder, Oratorio CD - SYM1270.2 - Symposium, 2005 Softly Awakes My Heart 1924-1944 CD - Nostalgia Naxos 8.120566 with orchestra conducted Rosario Bourdon Victor 19227- A recorded 1924, Camden, NJ My Way s Cloudy - with orchestra conducted Rosario Bourdon Victor 19227-B recorded 1924, Camden, NJ Oh, Wasn t Dat a Wide Ribber Lawrence Brown, piano HMB BB 20205-2 recorded September 1930, London Heav n, Heav n (I Got a Robe) arr. Hayes [?] Victor CS 98637 - Recorded January 1936, New York I Don t Feel No Ways Tired Kosti Vehanen, piano HMV OLA 2830 recorded November 1938, Paris Spirituals LP - RCA Victor LM -2032 Red Seal, 1956 De Gospel Train Ride On, King Jesus Sinner, Please Doan Let Dis Harves Pass
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 6 (No arrangers identified on Side 1) Spirituals LP - RCA Victrola AVMI-1735 De Gospel Train Ride On, King Jesus Sinner, Please Were You There Spirituals CD Sony Classical, 1999 (no arr. Identified)? Hard Trials I Know de Lord s Laid His Hands on Me I Don t Feel No-ways Tired *Spirituals CD - RCA Victor Red Seal 09026-63306-2, 1999 De Gospel train Hard Trials My Lord, What a Morning Ride On, King Jesus Sinner, Please Doan Let Dis Harves Pass *Tribute CD - Pro Arte CDD 3447, 1993 When I Have Sung My Songs LP - New World Records NW 247 Kosti Vehanen, piano rec. 1936, Victor 8958B William Appling Singers Shall We Gather: American Hymns & Spirituals CD - Albany Records Troy476-2001 Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler Arroyo, Martina, soprano Spirituals CD - Centaur CRC 2060 1988 issued 1991 Couldn t Hear Nobody Pray I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon Little David, Play on Your Harp Nobody Knows the Trouble I ve Seen Oh Didn t It Rain? Steal Away Weepin Mary
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 7 *There s a Meeting Here Tonight LP - Angel S-36072, 1974 I Stood on de Ribber of Jerdon Black Manhattan: Theater and Dance Music of James Reese Europe, Will Marion Cook, and Members of the Legendary Clef Club CD New World Records 80611-2 2003 *Blackmon, Henry, baritone Negro Spirituals Organ, LP - Mirasound Records SGLP 6047, 19-? Blanchard, Gerald, baritone With a Song in My Heart 1908 Every Time I Feel de Spirit? Boatner, Edward, baritone 78 rpm - Broome Special Phonograph Record No. 1, 1919 (Burleigh accompanying at the piano?) - Burleigh may be the accompanist Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 Burleigh may be the accompanist Bollen, Paul Frommermann Holland-America Line Hybrid SACD Chanel Classics Brown, Anthony, baritone; Lisa Bergman, piano. Anthony Brown Sings Spirituals. Brown-Smith Productions, 1995 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Steal Away Behold That Star Hear de Lambs a-cryin Toil and Triumph CD - Spirituals Project, 2002 Don t Be Weary, Traveler I Know de Lord s Laid His Hands on Me Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Brown, Velvet, tuba and trombone quartet Velvet Crystal Records CD692-1999 The Gospel Train (solo tuba) Joshua Fit the Battle of Jerico Brownlee, Lawrence, tenor The Heart That Flutters Opus Arte OA CD 9015 D - 2013
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 8 Brown, William A., tenor Fi-yer! A Century of African-American Song CD - Albany Records Troy 329, 1999 Sleep, Li l Chile, Go Sleep! By the Pool at the Third Rosses Arthur Symons Bumbry, Grace, mezzo-soprano and soprano Grace Bumbry: A Portrait 6/6/00 - no arr. listed Ride on, King Jesus Burdick, Daniel, tuba Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Faculty Recital - 2001 Four Tuba Spirituals Dry Bones Wade in de Water Didn t My Lord Deliver Daniel? Burleigh, Harry T., baritone 78 rpm - Geo. W. Broome Company 1919 Dvořák Discoveries Music & Arts Programs of America CD 926 1996 (reissue of 1919 recording) Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 Red Seal Records of St. George s Protestant Episcopal Church Choir LP - 1944 (not released commercially; distributed to St. George s Choir) Go Down in de Lonesome Valley Go Down Moses I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired I Know de Lord s Laid His Hands on Me Ride On, King Jesus *Butt, Dame Clara, contralto Dame Clara Butt: Britain s Queen of Song CD - Pearl GEM 0086, 2000 78 rpm - Columbia A5236 X338 78 rpm - Columbia A 6549 X340 Kenneth Cantril, baritone piano only 78 rpm Swing Low, Sweet Chariot RBA 08744 B *Carlsen, Svein, bass Negro Spirituals CD - EuroMaster AS ECD19005, 1996 Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit I Got a Robe Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Oh, Didn t It Rain? Choral Arts
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 9 Mornings Like This Choral Arts Society of Washington A Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The First Ten Years, 1999 Clark, C. Carroll, baritone - 78 rpm - Columbia 1924 Fletcher Henderson, accomp. Cole, Stephen, tenor From the Southland: Songs, Piano Sketches and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh CD - Premier Recordings PRCD 1041 By an By Love Watches Melody by George O Connell Oh, Didn t It Rain? Promis Lan The Colorado Choir Deep River Southern Folk Songs and Spirituals CD - 1994 Conrad, Barbara, mezzo-soprano Spirituals CD - Disc MCD96-103 Naxos - 2004 Cordon, Norman, bass; Karl Kritz, accomp. 78 rpm - RCA Victor 10-1114-B Creech, Philip, tenor From the Southland: Songs, Piano Sketches and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh CD - Premier Recordings PRCD 1041 1995 Five Songs of Laurence Hope Worth While The Jungle Flower Kashmiri Song Among the Fuchsias Till I Wake Lovely Dark and Lonely One Crooks, Richard, tenor Richard Crooks: The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks CD - DE 5501 O Perfect Love 9/17/41 Clarence Dickinson, organist Dadmun, Royal, baritone with orchestra - 78 rpm - Gennett 4673 Hard Trials - Gennett 4673-B I Want to Be Ready - Gennett 4673-A Davis, Ellabelle, soprano A First Time Buyer s Guide to American Negro Spirituals CD - Primo PRMCD 6038 2006 I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon Ellabelle Davis Sings Negro Spirituals CD - London LPS 182 I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon - Orchestra, O. Olaf, conductor
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 10 Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Hubert Greenslade, piano - Orchestra, O. Olaf, conductor *Negro Spirituals: The Concert Tradition: 1909-1948 CD - Fremeaux & Associates FA 168, 1999 I Stood On de Ribber ob Jerdan Davis, Osceola, with Jorma Hynninen CD - Ondine ODE715-2 1988 - Barcode 761195071526 available on Naxos.com Every Time I Feel the Spirit Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Steal Away degorgoza, Emilio, baritone with orchestra 78 rpm - Victorla 588-A & Victor 64624 Since Molly Went Away Frank L. Stanton Duncan, Todd, baritone; William Allen, piano Let Us Break Bread Together LP - Philips A 56008 H *Negro Spirituals Piano, LP - Allegro ALG3022-1952 By an By Dvorak Festival Orchestra Music & Arts Programs of America CD 1078 arranged for orchestra (1st recording) Dvořák Day Concert - 1997 Eley, Lucerne DeSa Marcus, clarinetist Welcome Home: A Collection of American Works for Clarinet and Piano New York Arabesque Recordings, 1998 Evans, Charlie Sing God s Plan Foy, Dina Cancryn, soprano; Polly Brecht, piano Remembrance: African-American Songs DCF Records [1997] Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1996 Saracen Songs Almona O Night of Dream and Wonder His Helmet s Blaze I Hear His Footsteps, Music Sweet Thou Art Weary This Is Nirvana Ahmed s Song of Farewell *Graves, Denyce, mezzo-soprano Angels watching over me Piano, CD - NPR Classics CD 0006-1997 *Gustafson, Edra, soprano
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 11 Favorite Sacred Songs Organ, LP - Echoes of Faith CAM 33-64140 - 1950? Hall, Adelaide 78 rpm discs - RBA 08743-08745 - 1948 RBA 08743 - A By an By piano and organ RBA 08743 - B Nobody Knows RBA 08744 A 98745 A My Lord, What a Morning 08745 B Hamilton, Ruth, contralto Good News CD - Videmus VIS 735 2006 Ev ry Time I Feel de Spirit (with Robert Honeysucker arr. Vivian Taylor) Hampson, Thomas, baritone To the Soul Thomas Hampson Sings the Poetry of Walt Whitman EMI Classics Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Song of America Music from the Library of Congress Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Angel Records 1997; EMI - 2005 Harris, Hilda, mezzo-soprano From the Southland: Songs, Piano Sketches and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh - Premier Recordings PRCD 1041, 1995 Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Ev ry Time I Feel de Spirit Saracen Songs Almona O, Night of Dream and Wonder His Helmet s Blaze I Hear His Footsteps, Music Sweet Thou Art Weary This Is Nirvana Ahmed s Song of Farewell Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Harrison, Beatrice, cellist 1891 Centenary Recital 1991 with May Harrison and Margaret Harrison Symposium 1140-1992 Southland Sketches No. 3 Allegretto Grazioso Hayes, Roland, tenor The Art of Roland Hayes Smithsonian RD 041 Weepin Mary Rec. 4/7/42; Unissued Columbia: mx 32635 A First Time Buyer s Guide to American Negro Spirituals Primo PRMCD 6038, 2006 *Good News: Vintage Negro Spirituals CD - Living Era AJA 5622, 2006 Steal Away
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 12 *Negro Spirituals: The Concert Tradition 1909-1948 CD - Fremeaux & Associates FA 168, 1999 New World Recorded Anthology of American Music When I Have Sung My Songs New World Records NW 247 CLP AL 82 LP, v. 47 Haymon, Cynthia, soprano; Warren Jones, pianist Where the Music Comes From: American Songs Argo 436-117-2ZH, 1992 Five Songs of Laurence Hope Among the Fuschias Till I Wake Worth While The Prayer Arthur Symons *Heard, Richard, tenor Aint a That Good News: African American Art Songs and Spirituals CD - HM Classics HMC9602-1998 Hempel, Frieda, soprano with orchestra Just You Madge Marie Miller - Victor 87261 78A 1916 - CLP LSX 77 Met Stars in the New World MET 216 CD Just You - Madge Marie Miller 6/1/16 Victor 87261 (B-17782-2) CD Hendricks, Barbara, soprano Great American Spirituals Musical Heritage Society CD 6037, 1994 Give Me Jesus *Give me Jesus CD - EMI Classics 7243 5 56788 2 9, 1998 I ve Been in de Storm So Long Henricksson, Deborah Simple Gifts Nosag CD 143 2010 Weepin Mary Moses Hogan Choral Series 2002 Hal Leonard HL08743982, 2005 recorded 2002 Ezekiel Saw de Wheel: A Collection of Spirituals MGH Records, 2001 Holland, Charles, tenor My Lord, What a Mornin: Spirituals in Arrangements bv Hall Johnson, Roland Hayes, and H. T. Burleigh Musical Heritage Society MHS 512250K, 1982 By an By Holmes, Eugene, baritone Eugene Holmes Sings Spirituals Avant Garde AV-115
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 13 I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon Little David Play on Your Harp: Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Oh, Didn t It Rain? Honeysucker, Robert, baritone Good News Videmus VIS 735 Ev ry Time I Feel de Spirit (with Ruth Hamilton arr. Vivian Taylor) Give Me Jesus Three Shadows 1916 *Let s have a union CD - Brave Records BRAV-0923, 2009 ( Taylor, Vivian is listed as Composer B ) I Gotta Home in a-dat Rock Howard University Chamber Choir Wade in the Water: African American Spirituals: The Concert Tradition Smithsonian Folkways Vol. I CD SF 40072 Hynninen, Jorma, baritone, or Osceola Davis Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Johnson, Charles, tenor Bell 111-A Little Mother of Mine *Jones, Fanni, mezzo-soprano Fanni Jones at Oswald Russell LP - Audio-Visual Enterprises AVE 30701, 19--? Every Time I Feel the Spirit De Gospel Train Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho Tis Me, Oh Lord *Jones, Randye, soprano; Michelle Crouch, piano The Art of the Negro Spiritual: Standin in de Need *Come Down Angels -- Piano, CD - -Ahhjay Records AHHJ-0001, 2003 Kennedy, Charles, Jr., tenor Tribute I Honoring Harry T. Burleigh, The Father of the Spirituals sweet jazz renditions Nobody Knows the Trouble I ve Seen Heart & Soul: Songs of Harry T. Burleigh Martin Bliley, accompanist cassette Didn t My Lord Deliver Daniel? Dream Land From the Southland -- The Frolic De Gospel Train Her Eyes
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 14 Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho Just My Love and I Little Mother of Mine Lovely Dark and Lonely One Perhaps There Is a Balm in Gilead Wade in the Water Weepin Mary Knoxville College Concert Choir, Camden, NJ: Recorded Publications Co., 196-?, Nathan Carter, conductor *Lewis, Cheryse McLeod, mezzo-soprano Spirituals Piano, CD - CheryseMusic, 2012 Lieberson, Lorraine Hunt, mezzo-soprano Recital: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at Ravinia -Harmonia Mundi HMU 907500, 2/10/09 Markeson, Stephen, bass-baritone 1990 - Eastman Stan Still, Jordan Little David, Play on Your Harp Steal Away Ride On, King Jesus Matthews, Inez, mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Brice, piano Period SLP 580 De Gospel Train Maynor, Kevin, bass Paul Robeson Remembered Pleur de Son Classics FDS 57929 Stan Still, Jordan The Spiritual: An Underground Railroad Southeastern Virginia Arts Assoc., in assoc. with Norfolk State University, 1999 Didn t It Rain? McConnell, Regina, soprano Art Songs of Harry T. Burleigh Centaur CRC 2252, 1995 Adoration And as the Gulls Soar! You Ask Me If I Love You? Carry Me Back to the Piney Wood The Dove and the Lily Elysium The Grey Wolf He Sent Me You Heigh-Ho! Just You Lovely Dark and Lonely One The Man in White Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Oh Love of a Day Oh, My Love!
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 15 One Day The Prayer The Prayer I Make for You The Sailor s Wife Saracen Songs -- I Hear His Footsteps, Music Sweet Tide Were I a Star Why Art Thou Not Near Me! McCormack, John, tenor The Golden Voice of John McCormack Little Mother of Mine Little Child of Mary Edwin Schneider, accomp. (recorded in Europe) Victor 26772-A Little Mother of Mine with orchestra Victrola 755-B (also Victrola 64778 & Brunswick 10208 B McCorvey, Everett, tenor Symphonic Brotherhood: The Music of African-American Composers The Young Warrior orchestral accompaniment Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Julius Williams, conductor *McFerrin, Robert, baritone Deep River and Other Classic Negro Spiritual Piano, LP-Washington WLP 466, 1959 Classic Negro Spirituals Piano, LP - Washington WLP 466, 1959 Albert McNeil Los Angeles Jubilee Singers; Jacqueline Sebastian and Larry Farrow, piano Pilgrimage to Jerusalem CBS 197? Recorded in Jerusalem Various vocal soloists OCLC 37529621 CBS 64215 Melba, Nellie, soprano Melba The London Recordings 1904-1926 EMI-RLS 719 CLP DS 454LP Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Nellie Melba London and Middlesex Recordings (1921-1926) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Melba Prima Voce Nimbus NI 7890, 1997 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Mercyhurst College Choir Rebecca Ryan, conductor - private recording Mr. Banjo *Mims, A. Grace Lee, soprano Spirituals Piano, LP - H & GM Records HGM 8101, 1981 I Know de Lord s Laid His Hands on Me Scandalize My Name Stan Still, Jordan de Mira, Juarês, bass Negro Spirituals in Brazil
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 16 De Gospel Train I Want To Be Ready Nobody Knows The Trouble I ve Seen Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Milnes, Sherrill, baritone Abide With Me RCA ARL 1-1403 CLP AL 8046LP Met Stars in the New World Disc MCD 93-232 Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Majesty of America O Divine Redeemer Bonneville Classics BCD 9201-2, 1992 O Divine Redeemer Legacy Series remastered May 2007 Songs from the American Heartland Argo 430 834-2, 1991 My Lord, What a Morning Moses, Oral, bass-baritone Amen! African-American Composers of the Twentieth Century Albany Troy 4509, 1995 He Met Her in the Meadow I Don t Feel No-Ways Tired Jean Come Down Angels and Trouble the Water Albany Troy 1489, 2014 re-arr. Erik Lindgren Deep River: Songs and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh Lovely Dark and Lonely One Dry Bones Wade in de Water Ethiopia Saluting the Colors The Dove and the Lily Exile Stan Still, Jordan Little Mother of Mine Don t You Weep When I m Gone The Spring, My Dear, Is No Longer Spring Oh! Rock Me, Julie The Soldier Mammy s Li l Baby Hear de Lambs A-Crying The Trees Have Grown So Thy Heart
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 17 Hard Trials Didn t My Lord Deliver Daniel? Extreme Spirituals: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Oral Moses -- Cuneiform Records 2006 arr. HTB & Erik Lindgren Songs of America Albany Records Troy 1011 I ve Been in the Storm So Long Muzio, Claudia, soprano - Pathé 54067 (RD10007/1815) (Available on YouTube) Jean National Lutheran Choir Heritage Series Vol. III 1/1/2000 Oglesby, Isador, tenor Negro Spirituals: The Musical Roots of American Folk Songs Oglesby Records Stan Still, Jordan Swing Low, Sweet Chariot *Isador Sings Negro Spirituals Piano, LP - Oglesby Recordings Album 3, 1983 Didn t It Rain? Parks, Karen, soprano Nobody Knows: Songs of Harry T. Burleigh CD Baby, 2007 The Dove and the Lily I ve Been in de Storm So Long Little David, Play on Your Harp Lovely Dark and Lonely One Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Oh, Didn t It Rain Oh! Rock Me, Julie The Prayer Saracen Songs -- His Helmet s Blaze Sleep, Li l Chile, Go Sleep/ Southern Lullaby Stan Still, Jordan Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Till I Wake Weepin Mary Patton, John, tenor; Susan Peters, piano, 1972 Lovely Dark and Lonely One Paulssohn, Andrs Disc MCD 04-318 *Payne, John, baritone Good News: Vintage Negro Spiritual CD - Living Era AJA 5622, 2006 *Philogene, Ruby, soprano Steal Away Piano, CD - EMI Classics 7243 5 69707 2 4, 1997 Couldn t Hear Nobody Pray De Gospel Train
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 18 Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Ride on, King Jesus! Steal Away Tis Me, O Lord Pinza, Ezio, basso; Gibner King, accomp. Columbia 17383-D (CO 34232) An Enchanted Evening with Ezio Pinza CD - Living Era CD AJA 5618 PMEA Association 1981. All-State Festival. Stephen Heyde Disc MOO-105, 1987 Disc MOO 319 Disc MOO 10 Price, Leontyne, soprano The Essential Leontyne Price Highlights 1997 - (arranger unidentified) Ride On, King Jesus Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Essential Leontyne Price: Spirituals, Hymns & Sacred Songs - RCA Victor Gold Seal 09026-68157 Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit with Rust College Choir Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler with Rust College Choir I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Rust College Choir RCA LSC-3183, 1971 Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler arr. Roger Vene CLP *Leontyne Price Sings Spirituals CD (note: Vene, Ruggero is listed as composer B) - RCA Red Seal 88691928242-2012 Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: Fourteen Spirituals RCA LSC-2600, 1962 Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit arr. de Paur Ragin, Derek, male alto; Moses Hogan, pianist Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit; Spirituals Channel Classics CCS 2991, 1991 Deep River Little David, Play on Your Harp Steal Away Recorded Violin, Vol. II Unidentified violin piece. Reinhardt, Django, guitarist Django Reinhardt and The Singers with Jean Sablon Didn t It Rain? Ritte, Phillip, tenor. Pathé 79026 Turner 1990: 89. Jean. Riverside Choir Touch the Spirit: The Riverside Choir Sings Spirituals - JAV Recordings, 1999
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 19 Robeson, Paul, bass EMI Sessions 1928-1939 Disc 1 1928-1929 Scandalize My Name Sinner, Please Doan Let dis Harves Pass Disc 2 1930-1931 I Stood on de Ribber ob Jerdon/Peter Go Ring Dem Bells Medley of Spirituals HTB? Disc 3 1932-1933 By an By *The EMI Sessions 1928-1939 Piano, CD - EMI Classics 2 15586 2, 2008 I Want to Be Ready Weepin Mary The Essential Paul Robeson Vanguard VSD 57/58 Balm in Gilead A First Time Buyer s Guide to American Negro Spirituals Primo PRMCD 6038 2006 The Golden Voice of Paul Robeson Swing Low, Sweet Chariot A Lonesome Road ASV Living Era CD AJA 5027, 1984 Oh! Didn t It Rain? Oh! Rock Me, Julie Scandalize My Name *Met Stars in the New World CD - MET 216CD, 1992 New World Recorded Anthology of American Music *Odyssey of Paul Roberson, The Piano, CD - Omega Classics OCD 3007, 1992 Balm in Gilead Every Time I Feel the Spirit On My Journey: Paul Robeson s Independent Recordings Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40178, 2007 Scandalize My Name with Alan Booth, 1957 Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall Vanguard VSD 2035 CLP DS 1219E Balm in Gilead Paul Robeson Live at Carnegie Hall
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 20 Balm in Gilead Ballad for Americans *Sacred Roots of the Blues (When the Sun Goes Down Series) Piano, CD - Bluebird 82876 60084 2, 2004 Scandalize My Name The Classics Record Library 30-5647, 1976 BS13208 Balm in Gilead By an By Songs of Free Men: Spirituals - Odyssey 32 16 0268, 1968 Balm in Gilead By an By Songs of My People RCA lm-3292, 1972 By an By (duet with Lawrence Brown) I Want to Be Ready Were You There When I Have Sung My Songs: The American Art Song New World Records NW 247 CLP AL 8200LP, v. 47; Lawrence Brown, pianist. rec. 10 May 1927, Victor 20793A) - rec. 1922, Vocalion B 3032 (U.S. no. 21005), 1976 --LP Quivar, Florence, soprano Ride On, King Jesus! Harlem Boys Choir Joseph Joubert & Larry Woodward, piano Musical Heritage Society Angel EMI 5187417 A First Time Buyer s Guide to American Negro Spirituals Primo PRMCD 6038 2006 De Gospel Train *Ray, Carline, contralto Music for Contralto & Piano Piano, Score with CD Music Minus One MMO 9021, 1995 Ride on, King Jesus Royal Choir Society Mastreechter Staar Choral Concert Challenge Classics CC72182 Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen Rust College Choir The Essential Leontyne Price Spirituals, Hymns & Sacred Songs RCA Victor Gold Seal 09026-68157 Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit with Leontyne Price Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler with Leontyne Price
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 21 St. George s Protestant Episcopal Church Choir 1944 Red Seal Records (not released commercially) Ezekiel Saw de Wheel O Brothers, Lift Your Voices St. Jacob s Chamber Choir BIS Northern Lights - BIS-NL-CD-5006 Seagle, Oscar, baritone Columbia A2165-4 [?] 7205, 1916 *Shanks, Donald, bass-baritone Songs of Inspiration, CD - ABC Classics Eloquence 426803-2 Ev ry Time I Feel the Spirit Accompanied: Organ, 1989 Gospel train, De Accompanied: Organ A cappella, 1989 Simonson, Victor Rudolf, baritone; Crysti Sonomura, piano, Eastman, 1996 Wade in the Water Smith, Joseph, pianist From the Southland: Songs, Piano Sketches and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh - Premier Recordings PRCD 1041, 1995 From the Southland Through Moanin Pines The Frolic In de Col Moonlight A Jubilee On Bended Knees A New Hiding-Place Spirituals - Choir of All Saints Church, Atlanta Promised Land - NAICS 711130 Nobody Knows de Trouble I ve Seen The Spirituals Project Choir n.d. De Blin Man Stood on de Road an Cried Oh, Didn t It Rain? *Spencer, Kenneth, bass-baritone Volkslieder & Spirituals LP - Discoton 75546, 197-? Dar s a Meeting Here Tonight Didn t It Rain? Steinhardt, Arnold, violinist American Journey Naxos 8.559136 Southland Sketches - 1916 I. Andante II. Adagio ma no troppo III. Allegretto grazioso
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 22 IV. Allegro Stoffel, David Neil, bass Songs with a Touch of Bass ACA Digital 1996 - Disc MCD- 04-642 with cello and piano Taylor, Darryl, counter-tenor How Sweet the Sound: A Charm of Spirituals Albany Troy 1244 Taylor, Darryl, tenor Dreamer: Portrait of Langston Hughes CD Naxos American Classics, 2002 Lovely Dark and Lonely One Te Wiata, Inia, bass-baritone West Indian Spirituals and Folk Songs Music Heritage Society 1515 SLC-70 I Got a Robe Oh, Didn t It Rain? Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Teyte, Maggie. soprano Just You Columbia 1957 (46210) CLP LSX 240, S. 2 *Thomas, Indra, soprano Great Day: Indra Thomas Sings Spirituals Piano, CD - Delos DE 3427, 2012 Give Me Jesus Steal Away There Is a Balm in Gilead Thomas, John Charles, tenor Little Mother of Mine *Thompson, Derrick, baritone Spirituals Piano, CD - Private Label, 2014 Go down, Moses Thompson, Jeanette, soprano Negro Spirituals Unidentified arrangements *Negro Spirituals -- Chorus, CD Pavane Records ADW 7267, 1992 Tibbett, Lawrence, baritone Lawrence Tibbett Sings Royal EP388 7-inch vinyl Toppin, Louise, soprano Good News Videmus VIS 735 Saracen Songs -- I Hear His Footsteps -- 1914 Three Shadows 1916 Turner, Claramae, contralto Silvertone Record Club, 11-B, n. [?]
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 23 *Lebendige Vergangenheit Claramae Turner Orchestra, CD - Preiser Records, 2008 Tyler, Veronica, soprano Vocal Essence Philip Brunnelle, conductor Witness What a Mighty God Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus Witness Got the St. Louis Blues Classical Music in the Jazz Age Ethiopia s Paean of Exaltation Dale Warland Singers Harvest Home 10/11/2005 Westminster Choir at Spoleto Festival U.S.A. - Gothic, 1996 White, Cassandra, soprano Remembering the Spirituals CBW Entertainment By an By Evelyn White Chorale Choral Music by Black Composers LP Composers listed but no specific songs identified Williams, Evan, tenor accomp. Victor Orchestra Victor 64280 1906 in England; 1912 in U.S. Jean Witherspoon, Herbert, bass with orchestra Victor 64535 Just You Wood, Mary M., contralto Red Seal Records of St. George s Choir - 1944 (not released commercially) Weepin Mary Woodley, Arthur, bass From the Southland: Songs, Piano Sketches and Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh - Premier Recordings PRCD 1041, 1995 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Saracen Songs Almona O, Night of Dream and Wonder His Helmet s Blaze I Hear His Footsteps, Music Sweet Thou Art Weary This Is Nirvana
Jean E. Snyder/ Randye Jones 24 Ahmed s Song of Farewell Wade in the Water WPA Southland Singers of Boston, Series 40, Program No. 12 LP Wright, Edward Sterling Voices of Black America Historical Recordings Disc CD 04-2 Wright, John Wesley, tenor; Gabriel Dobner, piano Wade in the Water: Songs of the River, the Lake, and the Sea Donald L. Robinson & Associates, 2004 Oh, Didn t It Rain? Stan Still, Jordan Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Yaarab Chanters of Atlanta Frank Cundell, director Columbia 1450-D (146169) Little Mother of Mine Zeppenfeld, Georg, bass Dvorak und seine Zeit no arr listed By an By Steal Away to Jesus