Negro Melody Singers Program No. 16

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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

Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Live A Humble
Joe Brown's Coal Mine

Next we hear vendor street calls heard in negro neighborhoods:
Bostonian selling Kindling Wood
New Yorker selling Fresh Fish
Philadelphian selling Watermelon
North Carolinan selling Fresh Vegetables
South Carolinan selling Porgies, Shark Steak, Shrimp

The program ends with a song about the judgement day, In That Great Gettin' Up Morning.

Recorded between 1935 and 1938.



Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150504
Municipal archives id: LT4838

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