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Common Tater	Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs (148* d)	RE: Folk Songs That Hit the Charts as Pop Songs	24 Dec 06
"The Midnight Hour" (made popular by Wilson Pickett) is a secularized version of the much earlier "The Midnight Hour" Negro Spiritual. I first heard the Spiritual sung by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers (it's about the parousia - the 2nd coming of Christ) .... The Spiritual was being sung in the American South long before Cooke - or even Pickett - recorded it.

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