LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
Created on 24/06/2008Latest update on 12/07/2024
Artist: Manhattan Harmony Four
Author: James Weldon Johnson/John Rosamond Johnson
Label: Paramount
Year: 1923
"The Negro National Anthem" according to the NAACP. Resurrected during the Black Panther Movement.
Covers:
- 1926:
- 1942:
- 1952:
- 1960:
- 1969:
Kim Weston [hit R&B; in '73 also in film Wattstax/The Living Word]
- 1971:
- 1972:
- 1990:
Melba Moore [top 10 R&B]
- 1997:
- 2012:
