Artist: Wiseman Sextette
Author: traditional
Label: Rainbow
Year: 1923
Published by Homer Rodeheaver in an arrangement by J.B. Herbert in Songs & Spirituals (Rodeheaver Record Co. - 1921). Some verses come from hymn Bearing The Cross (1840s).
Covers:
Rev. S.J. Worell [alias Steamboat Bill as Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone?]
Rev. E.D. Campbell [one stanza from Shine On Me in his sermon Escape For Your Life]
Rev. Johnny Blakey & congregation [as Let The Light Shine On Me]
Ernest Phipps & his Holiness Quartet [reissued on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music]
Ernest Stoneman & his Dixie Mountaineers [as There's A Light Lit Up In Galilee during the second Bristol Sessions]
Blind Willie Johnson [as Let Your Light Shine On Me]
Rev. J.C. Hendrix [as Let Your Light Shine For Jesus]
Lead Belly [as Let It Shine On Me with part of Amazing Grace]
Soul Stirrers [feat. Sam Cooke as Must Jesus Bear His Cross Alone, also with Amazing Grace]
Lonnie Donegan [as Light From The Lighthouse]
Seekers [idem]
Clarence Fountain [as Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone in medley with Amazing Grace]
Ry Cooder [as Let Your Light Shine On Me live in Hamburg]
Mud Boy & The Neutrons [as Let Your Light Shine On Me on It Came From Memphis Vol 2]
Nick Cave [on Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited]
Robin Williams [in film A Prairie Home Companion]
Paul McCartney [as Light From Your Lighthouse under alias The Fireman]
Maria McKee [on a Blind Willie Johnson tribute album]
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)