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:
Mary J. Blige [with Nas in film Black Nativity]
Nick Lowe [on his X-mas album Quality Street]
See also: Go Tell It On The Mountain.
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