Cover of SAY BROTHERS WILL YOU MEET US in 1872 - both as Battle Hymn Of The Republic and as John Brown's Body, versions underlining the quality of both song and choir, especially overseas; Fisk University in Nashville was the first high school for African-Americans in the South (1866); their choir symbolised Reconstruction, although no American steamship was willing to take these black singers on board on their first world tour in 1873
Cover of OLD BLACK JOE in 1909 - reissued on cd The Roots Of Van Morrison