AMEN

Created on 22/12/2011
Latest update on 02/05/2023

Artist: Wings Over Jordan Choir
Author: traditional
Label: RCA
Year: 1948

Covers:

1950:

Rev. J.B. Crocker [as Sermon, Hallelujah, Amen]

1954:

Radio Four

1956:

Elder Charles Beck [as Let The Church Say Amen]

1959:

Guy Carawan

1963:

Harry Belafonte [on lp Streets I Have Walked]

1964:

Jester Hairston [in film Lilies Of The Field; claims authorship]

1964:

Impressions [n°1 R&B with credits for Johnny Pate/Curtis Mayfield, while lyrics are identical to Belafonte and Hairston's, apart from the last two stanzas]

1965:

Lloyd Price & Erma Franklin

1965:

Johnny Cash

1965:

Staple Singers [title track lp]

1967:

Simon Dupree & The Big Sound

1968:

Otis Redding [hit US & R&B]

1968:

Rotary Connection

1971:

Hillside Singers

1974:

Elvis Presley [on lp Recorded Live On Stage In Memphis]

1987:

Neville Brothers

1991:

Take 6

1994:

Elton John & Sounds Of Blackness [as a tribute to Curtis Mayfield]

2006:

Aaron Neville

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