COME BY HERE
Created on 11/11/2006Latest update on 17/11/2023
Artist: H. Wylie
Author: traditional
Label: L.o.C.
Year: 1926
Robert Gordon recording near Darien, Georgia. Known as Kum Ba Yah among the rest of the Gullah speaking population of the Georgia Sea Islands.
Covers:
- 1936:
Ethel Best [John A. Lomax recording in Raiford, Florida]
- 1953:
Chosen Gospel Singers [gospel variation of old spiritual Come By Here, M'Lord, probably dating from slavery times; published in Revival Choruses Of Martin V. Frey (1939), frequently credited since]
- 1953:
- 1954:
- 1958:
Folksmiths [first recording as Kum Ba Yah on Folkways lp We've Got Some Singing To Do: The Folksmiths Travelling Folk Workshop; Joe Hickerson was one of them (successor of Robert Gordon and John A. Lomax heading the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress)]
- 1958:
- 1959:
- 1962:
Joan Baez [as Kumbaya]
- 1962:
Journeymen [idem]
- 1963:
- 1963:
Seekers [as Kumbaya, first as folk tune on their audition tape in Melbourne, one year later as pop tune in London]
- 1964:
- 1965:
Bernice Johnson Reagon [as Come By Hyer on Folkways lp Folk Songs: The South]
- 1966:
- 1966:
- 1966:
- 1967:
- 1968:
Sister Rosetta Tharpe [one of her last recordings]
- 1969:
- 1974:
Nina Simone [as Com' By H'Yere]
- 1984:
Guadalcanal Diary [as Kumbayah]
- 1989:
- 1998:
- 2001:
Guano Apes [with Michael Mittermeier as Kumba Yo]
