THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD
Created on 30/01/2023Latest update on 30/01/2023
Artist: J.L. McGhee & Frank Welding
Author: Charles P. Jones
Label: Brunswick
Year: 1928
As camp meeting hymn, written in 1899. Joe Hill in his Little Red Songbook (1913) adapted it as There Is Power In The Union. The army barrack trivial versions as In The Quartermester's Stores deserve their own entree (see there).
Covers:
- 1938:
Sons Of The Pioneers [as Power In The Blood]
- 1954:
Joe Glazer [as There Is Power In The Union op lp Songs Of Joe Hill]
- 1962:
Statesmen Quartet with Hovie Lister [on lp Sings Camp Meeting Hymns]
- 1965:
Burl Ives [as Power In The Blood; he also cut a version as In The Quartermaster's Stores (before blacklisting fellow performers (like Pete Seeger) during Senator McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee hearings)]
- 1966:
- 1968:
- 1968:
Mahalia Jackson [as Power In The Blood]
- 1973:
Oak Ridge Boys [idem]
- 1983:
Utah Phillips [as There Is Power In The Union]
- 2002:
- 2013:
