The Social Harp: Early American Shape-Note Songs Performed By Southern Traditional Singers
Sacred Harp Singers
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CAT # 11661-0094-2
1. Singing School 1:30 2. Jolly Soldier 1:51 3. Buonaparte 2:13 4. Marion 2:46 5. Musgrove 1:52 6. Wake Up 1:18 7. The Beggar 1:06 8. Heavenly Meeting 1:56 9. Raymond 2:45 10. Good-by 1:38 11. Zion's Walls 1:44 12. O Save 1:55 13. The Royal Band 1:50 14. Fe Days 1:17 15. Weeping Mary 1:25 16. Come, Tell Me Of Your Ship 1:41 17. Heavenly King 1:17 18. The Traveller 1:18 19. To The Land 1:39 20. Lisbon 3:22
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Leading Sacred Harp singers from Georgia and Alabama, led by Hugh McGraw, perform songs from the 1855 work 'The Social Harp,' a collection by John Gordon McCurry (a farmer and singing master from upper Georgia) which was neglected for over a century. This recording is one of the few in which any of the 19th century shape-note compositions can be heard in their original three-voice settings.
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