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  1. Rise, Shine, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Paul Kwami, Director www.fisk.edu/index.asp?cat=16&pid=166.
  2. Keep Movin’ ,Standard Quartette (H.C. Williams, Ed DeMoss, R.L.Scott, William Cottrell), original 1894, Columbia (cylinder); re-issued on The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets -- 1894-1928. Document Records: DOCD-5061.
  3. Blow, Gabriel, McIntosh County Shouters, Slave Shout Songs from the Coast of Georgia. Smithsonian/Folkways F-4344 (1983).
  4. I Couldn’t Hear nobody pray, Fisk Jubilee Singers/Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Alfred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder), original by Victor, 1909; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume 1 - 1909-1911, Document Records: DOCD-5533.
  5. Po’ Moaner Got a Home at Last, Fisk Jubilee Singers/Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Leon O’Hara, Noah Walker Ryder), original by Victor, 1911; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume 1 - 1909-1911, Document Records: DOCD-5533.
  6. O Mary Don’t You Weep Don’t You Mourn, Fisk Jubilee Singers/Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, J. Everett Harris, Lemuel L. Foster), original by Columbia, 1915; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume I1 - 1915-1920, Document Records: DOCD-5534.
  7. Old Black Joe, Fisk Jubilee Singers/Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Alfred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder), original by Victor, 1909; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume 1 - 1909-1911, Document Records: DOCD-5533.
  8. Roll Jordan Roll, Fisk Jubilee Singers/Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Alfred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder), original by Victor, 1909; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume 1 - 1909-1911, Document Records: DOCD-5533.
  9. Roll Jordan Roll, Fisk University Jubilee Singers (James A. Myers, M. Carl Barbour, Mrs. James A. Myers, Alfred T. Clark, Theodore H. Moore), original by Columbia, 1920; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume I1 - 1915-1920, Document Records: DOCD-5534.
  10. Shout All Over God’s Heaven, Fisk University Jubilee Singers (James A. Myers, M. Carl Barbour, Mrs. James A. Myers, Horatio O’Bannon, Ludie David Collins), original by Columbia, 1924; re-issued on Fisk University Jubilee Singers In Chronological Order - Volume II1 - 1924-1940, Document Records: DOCD-5535.
  11. Go Down Moses, arranged by Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, tenor, Lawrence Brown, piano, original by Vocalion, 1922; re-issued on ‘Brother Can You Spare A Dime’ - The Roots Of American Song, Pavilion Records (Pearl) GEMM CD 9484.
  12. Balm in Gilead, arranged by Harry T. Burleigh, Paul Robeson, bass-baritone, Lawrence Brown, piano, original by Columbia, 1942; re-issued on Paul Robeson - Songs Of Free Men, Sony (Columbia Masterworks Heritage Series) MHK 63223.
  13. Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho, arranged by Hall Johnson, Hall Johnson Choir, Hall Johnson, director, 1940; re-issued on 1940’s Vocal Groups Volume II - 1940-1945, DocumentRecords: DOCD-5608.
  14. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel, arranged by William L. Dawson, Tuskegee Institute Choir, William L. Dawson, director, on the album Spirituals, originally released on Westminster Gold/MCA Records WGM-8154, re-issued by MCA Records as CD MSD-35340.
  15. If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus, arranged and led by Betty Mae Fikes in Selma, Alabama, 1963; on Voices of the Civil Rights Movement - Black American Freedom Songs - 1960-1966, Smithsonian Folkways LC 9628. Compare with the original spiritual, O Mary Don’t You Weep Don’t You Mourn in Musical Example 6.
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