Los Angeles Negro Choir Program No. 52

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 193u-uu-uu.

Presented by the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Music Project, Carlyle Scott leads the Los Angeles Negro Choir in a program of spirituals.

Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
Dark Water
Little David
Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)
In That Great Gettin' Up Morning

Recorded between 1935 and 1942.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150500
Municipal archives id: LT4786

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