Negro Melody Singers Program No. 13

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This presentation of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Music Project features the Negro Melody Singers lead by Juanita Hall.

The group performs a medley of spiritual songs. The announcer introduces each song while saying a few words about the group, African spiritual music or the work of the WPA.

Intro: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Free at Last
Who Join That Union?
Who Built That Ark?
Certainly Lord
This Train
Same Train
Sign of the Judgement
Outro: Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Recorded between 1935 and 1938.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150198
Municipal archives id: LT4766

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