Los Angeles Negro Choir Program No. 71

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.

Every Time I Feel The Spirit
Poor Mourner's Got a Home At Last (featuring D.A. Scott)
Now Is The Needy Time
Wade In The Water (featuring J.B. Jones)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Heaven (featuring Gonzalo James)
Steal Away (Mamie Titus)

Recorded between 1935 and 1938.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150496
Municipal archives id: LT4765

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