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Artist: Elizabeth Murray
Author: Jack Yellen/George Cobb
Label: Columbia & Victor
Year: 1915
Written for her. George Cobb and Jack Yellen were two composers from Buffalo, NY with a bunch of songs situated in the southern states. Which Jubilee they're talking about? See footnote.
Covers:
Victor Military Band [in medley]
East Texas Serenaders [melody similar to their Deacon Jones]
Bessie Smith [echo in Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)]
W. Lee O'Daniel [vocal: Leon Huff]
Rice Brothers Gang [during same session as their original You Are My Sunshine (see there)]
Uncle James Archer [born in slavery; as Year Of Jubilee]
Billie Holiday [see Bessie Smith]
Red Foley [hit C&W]
Robert Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders [with Bob Brozman on Hawaiian guitar]
Biblical law (25th chapter of Book Leviticus) decreed a Jubilee was to be proclaimed every 50 years in order to pardon certain crimes, whereby slaves could be released, a beacon of hope during slavery days. 1915 was the 50th year since slavery was abolished in the United States, apparantly not celebrated in Alabama, one of the southern states where the 14th amendment didn't seem to count.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)