IN THAT GREAT GETTIN' UP MOURNIN'

Created on 10/03/2015
Latest update on 10/08/2016

Artist: Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1915

Was sung at pre Civil War camp meetings and first published in Religious Folk Songs Of The Negro As Sung In Hampton Institute. (zwarte universiteit in Virginia gesticht in 1868).

Covers:

1929:

Four Dusty Travelers [as Great Gittin' Up Morning]

1947:

Paul Robeson [idem]

1947:

Golden Gate Quartet [as Fare You Well, Fare You Well]

1953:

Clara Ward [as In That Great Judgement Morning]

1955:

Harry Belafonte [as In That Great Gettin' Up Morning]

1959:

Mahalia Jackson [title track lp; most of the times she gets the credits]

1959:

Jordanaires

1959:

Leon Bibb [with Laura Duncan, Betty Sanders and Pete Seeger as Great Gettin' Up Morning]

1959:

Four Lads [idem]

1960:

Patti Page [idem]

1962:

Marian Anderson [as Great Gittin' Up Morning]

1963:

Marie Knight

1965:

Righteous Brothers

1968:

Imperials

2009:

Sounds Of Blackness

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