Bayard Rustin: The Singer | Parnassus PACD96083

Bayard Rustin: The Singer

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Label: Parnassus

Cat No: PACD96083

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 22nd April 2022

Contents

Artists

Bayard Rustin (voice)
Margaret Davison (harpsichord)
James Farmer (narration)

Artists

Bayard Rustin (voice)
Margaret Davison (harpsichord)
James Farmer (narration)

About

Recordings of Elizabethan songs and Negro Spirituals, from scarce LPs made for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the early 1950s by the great civil rights leader, who was also an excellent singer.

Contents:
1. I Attempt from Love’s Sickness to Fly (Purcell)
2. Flow, My Tears (Dowland)
3. Cara e dolce (A. Scarlatti)
4. Have You Seen but a Whyte Lillie Grow? (anon., arr. A. Dolmetsch)
5. The Lass with the Delicate Air (Arne)
6. I Saw Her as I Came and Went (Rustin)
7. Ah! The Sighs that Came from My Heart (anon., arr. Rustin)
8. Gather ye Rosebuds while ye May (W. Lawes)
9. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
11. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
12. There is a Balm in Gilead
13. Careless Love
14. You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow! (anon., lyrics Rustin/Houser)
15. Go, Tell it on the Mountain
16. Mary, What You Gonna Name Your Pretty Little Baby?
17. Wasn’t That a Mighty Day?
18. I Know the Lord Laid His Hands on Me
19. Shepherd, Where’d You Lose Your Sheep?
20. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
21. Lonesome Valley
22. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
23. He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word
24. Lord, I Don’t Care Where You Bury My Body
25. He Arose
26. He is King of Kings

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