RISE UP SHEPHERD AND FOLLOW

Created on 11/12/2013
Latest update on 02/05/2021

Artist: Dorothy Maynor
Author: R. Nathaniel Dett
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1942

American soprano who was a pupil of Afro-American author and choir leader Dett. Christmas plantation song first published in Slave Songs Of The United States (1867) and in Religious Folk Songs Of The Negro As Sung On The Plantations (1909). Follow spelled Foller on the label.

Covers:

1960:

Odetta

1961:

Highwaymen

1963:

Ray Charles Singers

1967:

Pete Seeger

1970:

David Frost & Billy Taylor

1978:

Harry Simeone Chorale

1989:

Anita Kerr Singers

2001:

Kirk Whalum

2012:

Vanessa Williams

2013:

Mary J. Blige [with Nas in film Black Nativity]

2013:

Nick Lowe [on his X-mas album Quality Street]

See also: Go Tell It On The Mountain.

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