CRUCIFIXION, THE

Created on 22/04/2023
Latest update on 11/09/2023

Artist: Roland Hayes
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1927

Spiritual. Re-recorded for Columbia in '39 with subtitle: He Never Said A Mumberlin' Word and in '53 as part of song cycle The Life Of Christ (Vanguard).

Covers:

1927:

Norfolk Jubilee Quartet [as He Just Hung His Head And Died for Paramount]

1931:

John Morel [for Parlophone]

1933:

Prison blacksmith [as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word; John & Alan Lomax recording for the L.o.C. in the LA State Pen of Angola, while they discovered Lead Belly on the side]

1933:

Group of Negro convicts [as And He Never Said A Mumblin' Word; again a Lomax recording, in the MS State Pen (Parchman)]

1941:

Golden Gate Quartet [as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word for OKeh]

1941:

Marian Anderson [for Victor with Franz Rupp on piano]

1945:

Lead Belly [as They Hung Him On A Cross in medley with Swing Low Sweet Chariot and in '48 as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word during his Last Sessions for Folkways]

1952:

Josh White [as He Never Said A Mumblin' Word]

1953:

Dock Reed & Vera Hall [as Look How They Done My Lord for Folkways]

1956:

Sensational Nightingales [as See How They Done My Lord for Peacock]

1964:

Goldebriars [as A Mumblin Word (He Never Said)]

1989:

Kurt Cobain [solo recording as part of side project The Jury with members of Nirvana (Cobain & Krist Novoselic) and Screaming Trees ((Mark Lanegan & Mark Pickerel) as They Hung Him On A Cross; Cobain knew Lead Belly's Last Sessions]

1996:

Roger McGuinn [as Easter]

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