HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
Created on 16/03/2005Latest update on 10/01/2024
Artist: Rev. F.W. McGee
Author: Edward Boatner
Label: Victor
Year: 1929
As a sermon; only the last minute he and his congregation sing. Spiritual first published in 1927. Boatner was a preacher from Detroit living in New Orleans (2134, Ursulines Street). He's sometimes credited for When The Saints Come Marching In (see there) and was the father of jazz sax player Sonny Stitt.
Covers:
- 1929:
Bessie Johnson's Sanctified Singers [for OKeh; singing from the very beginning]
- 1930:
Brother Williams Sanctified Singers [from Memphis for Vocalion]
- 1941:
Sue Thomas [Frank Warner recording]
- 1951:
- 1955:
- 1957:
Laurie London [13 year old Londoner; n°1 US]
- 1958:
- 1960:
Nina Simone [outtake from her very first session in '57]
- 1962:
- 1965:
- 1968:
- 1975:
Dion [Phil Spector producing]
- 1978:
Supporters Nottingham Forrest F.C. & Paper Lace [as We've Got The Whole World In Our Hands]
- 1998:
- 2002:
4 Non Tops [idem]
