The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #130785 Message #2945159
Posted By: wysiwyg
14-Jul-10 - 06:01 PM
Thread Name: Good Night, The Lord's Coming
Subject: Good Night, The Lord's Coming
This YouTube video reflects the power of a gospel song I think probably started as a spiritual. If it did, it's survived a long time!
I know the first time I heard it, it was a very early black gospel quartet doing it. As I heard it then, it was the same style you can hear at the LOC's recordings of songs the singers said then that they had learned as spirituals from slave forebears.
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=I0K56fu5IR0&feature=related
The words are a tad murky. Amazon also has a black gospel MP3 of the song.
Anyone wanna take a shot?
~Susan