I told someone earlier today that I wasn’t going to do this. Changed my mind, because I’m unreliable like that. The first is just an example of the traditional approach to the Go Tell It On the Mountain standard.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nAyWVp-hY[/youtube]
This? Well . . .
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg7uGL6Ku20[/youtube]
And now a chaser:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XzU5ZxQkF0[/youtube]
You’re welcome.
Vivian J Paige
Now you’re going to make me go record that song the way it SHOULD be sung. (It’s a Negro spiritual, after all.)
Painful, MB. All of them.
Peej
Hah!
I’m really starting to have a soft spot for Henrietta…she really is trying!
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Vivian, definitely record it!
Vivian J Paige
How about Aretha? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HHh-pSkiA
MB
But, but . . . white people steal music to make it better!
Vivian J Paige
Ha!
Peej
I don’t know how I forgot about it, but anyway, this just started playing in our house, so it would be remiss of me not to share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFy1dqw3kwY
Beth
I was just coming to link that, Peej. It’s one of my favorites these days, although I am also pretty fond of the Peter, Paul, and Mary version, though. (Wikipedia gives them credit for rewriting the song specifically for the civil rights movement.)