OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CITY

Created on 30/10/2017
Latest update on 25/03/2024

Artist: Norfolk Jubilee Quartet
Author: traditional
Label: Paramount
Year: 1929

Covers:

1932:

Rev. J.M. Gates

1935:

Heavenly Gospel Singers [as Beautiful City]

1935:

Rev. Gary Davis [as Twelve Gates To The City]

1940:

Brother George & His Sanctified Singers [idem; with Blind Boy Fuller & Sonny Terry]

1943:

Marian Anderson

1952:

Jordanaires [as Beautiful City]

1952:

Sonny Terry [idem]

1958:

Pete Seeger [as Beautiful City]

1958:

Erik Darling

1959:

Joan Baez

1959:

Weavers [as Twelve Gates To The City]

1959:

Dave Van Ronk [idem]

1960:

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee [idem and also as What A Beautiful City on gospel lp Just A Closer Walk With Thee]

1962:

Clara Ward Singers [idem]

1965:

Josh White [as Twelve Gates To The City]

1983:

Solomon Burke [idem]

2002:

Ralph Stanley [idem]

2006:

Mavis Staples & Marty Stewart [idem]

2010:

Robert Plant & Band Of Joy [idem, in medley with Wade In The Water and In My Time Of Dying]

2012:

Rory Block [idem]

2017:

Bruce Cockburn [idem]

2022:

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder [as What A Beautiful City]

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