NEARER MY GOD TO THEE
Created on 05/10/2008Latest update on 21/03/2024
Artist: Baldwin's Cadet Band of Boston
Author: Sarah Adams/Lowell Mason
Label: Archeophone
Year: 1893
Played at the funerals of both President Garfield (1881) and McKinney (1901) and on the deck of the sinking Titanic (1912). Coauthor Mason was co-founder of the famous Boston Academy of Music (in 1838) and wrote more than 1.600 religious works.
Covers:
- 1895:
- 1896:
Len Spencer & Roger Harding [for Columbia]
- 1896:
- 1898:
- 1899:
Edison Male Quartet [with tenor Harry McDonough]
- 1899:
- 1900:
- 1900:
Ira D. Sankey ['The Sweet Singer of Methodism']
- 1911:
- 1913:
- 1945:
- 1956:
- 1957:
Louvin Brothers [title track lp]
- 1959:
- 1960:
- 1966:
- 1988:
- 1999:
- 1999:
- 1999:
- 2009:
Other versions by Jelly Roll Morton, Mississippi John Hurt, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Paul Robeson, The Soul Stirrers (with Sam Cooke), Al Green and The Mills Brothers.
