LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

Created on 24/06/2008
Latest update on 10/08/2013

Artist: Manhattan Harmony Four
Author: James Weldon Johnson/John Rosemond Johnson
Label: Paramount
Year: 1923

"The Negro National Anthem" according to the NAACP. Resurrected during the Black Panther Movement.

Covers:

1926:

Nazarene Congregational Church Choir

1942:

Southern Sons

1952:

Harmonizing Four

1960:

Marie Knight

1969:

Kim Weston [hit R&B; in '73 also in film Wattstax/Living Word]

1971:

Merry Clayton

1972:

Ray Charles

1990:

Melba Moore [top 10 R&B]

1997:

Linda Tillery & Cultural Heritage Choir

2012:

Bebe Winans

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