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Thread #41800   Message #973805
Posted By: masato sakurai
28-Jun-03 - 09:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Chariot' Spirituals
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'CHARIOT' SPIRITUALS
H.T. Burleigh arranged "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," which was published by G. Ricordi in 1917; it was definitely not "Swing Down Sweet Chariot". The sheet music (Click here) is at Historic American Sheet Music. Fisk University Jubilee Singers didn't record "Swing Down Sweet Chariot"; their version was "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (sound clip is HERE). According to Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, 4th ed. (Oxford UP), the recordings of "Swing Down Chariot (Let Me Ride)" were made by the Mississippi Gospel Singers (1941) and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (1946).