Los Angeles Negro Choir Program No. 52

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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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

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