MEMPHIS FLU

Created on 30/03/2020
Latest update on 09/03/2024

Artist: Elder Curry & Congregation
Author: Elder Curry
Label: Okeh
Year: 1930

Hell & brimstone sermon using both Spanish flu (1918-'19) and the 1878 Yellow Fever as a warning against debauchery. The latter hit Memphis in particular, the former hit worldwide, taking 700.000 lives in the US alone. Lead vocal: Jo Ann Williams, piano: Elder Charles Beck, an example for both Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Re-issued on disaster songs comp People Take Warning and on gospel box set Goodbye, Babylon.

Covers:

2009:

Felice Brothers

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