Negro Melody Singers Program No. 4

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, directed by Juanita Hall.

Roll [Jordan] Roll
Shortenin' Bread
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

The program includes two train spirituals, characterized by their "locomotive like rhythm," according to the host.

Gospel Train
Same Train

The program begins and ends with Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Recorded between 1935 and 1938.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 150494
Municipal archives id: LT4624

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