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List Of Songs Recorded By Washington Phillips
These are lists of all the songs recorded by the gospel blues musician Washington Phillips (18801954), arranged both in alphabetical order of title and by recording date. Additional information is given in parentheses. __TOC__ Alphabetic list * "A Mother's Last Word to Her Daughter" (December 2, 1929 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14511-D). This song shares tune and chorus with "Bye and Bye I'm Goin' to See the King" by Blind Willie Johnson * "Denomination BluesPart 1" (December 5, 1927 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14333-D) * "Denomination BluesPart 2" (December 5, 1927 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14333-D) * "I Am Born to Preach the Gospel" (December 4, 1928 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14448-D) * "I Had a Good Father and Mother" (December 2, 1929 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14566-D) * "I've Got the Key to the Kingdom" (December 2, 1929 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14511-D) * "Jesus Is My Friend" (December 5, 1928; Dallas, TX; Columbia 14404-D) * "Lift Him Up That's All" (December 2, 1927 Dallas, TX; Columbia 14277-D) * "M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gospel Blues
Gospel blues (or holy blues) is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music. It combines evangelistic lyrics with blues instrumentation, often blues guitar accompaniment. According to musician and historian Stefan Grossman, "holy blues" was coined to originally describe Reverend Gary Davis's style of traditional blues playing with lyrics conveying a religious message. Davis and Blind Willie Johnson are considered the genre's two dominant performers, according to Dick Weissman. Other notable gospel-blues performers include Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Washington Phillips. Blues musicians who became devout, or even practicing clergy, include Reverend Robert Wilkins and Ishman Bracey.Wardlow, G., and Komara, E. M. (1998). ''Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues''. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. pp. 43, 45. . Bluesmen such as Boyd Rivers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Sam Collins, Josh White, Blind Boy Fulle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother's Last Word To Her Son
"Mother's Last Word to Her Son" is a gospel blues song written by Washington Phillips (18801954) and recorded by him (vocals and zither) in 1927. The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. The mother advises her son as he leaves home to always remember Jesus. The fourth verse contains the line, "And you have a burden, He'll make them light", alluding to Christ's words in the Gospel of Matthew at 11:30: The same Biblical verse is alluded to in Phillips' song " Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There", recorded on the same day; that song is a Christian hymn written in 1916 by Charles Albert Tindley Charles Albert Tindley (July 7, 1851 – July 26, 1933) was an American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition "I'll Overcome Someday" is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rights anthem "We Shall Overcome". Another .... In 1929, Phillips recorded a companion song, " A Mother's Last Word to Her Daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Can't Stop A Tattler
"You Can't Stop a Tattler" is a gospel blues song, written by Washington Phillips (18801954) and recorded by him for Columbia Records in 1929 (vocals and zither). The song is in two parts, intended to occupy both sides of a 10-inch 78 rpm record. However, it remained unreleased for many years. Part 2 was included on the 1971 album ''This Old World's in a Hell of a Fix'' ( Biograph BLP 12027). Both parts were included on a 1980 compilation album of songs by Phillips, ''Denomination Blues'' (Agram 2006). The song is unusual in that the verses are separated by a wordless hummed refrain; a similar device to the wordless vocalise which Phillips had used in "I Had a Good Father and Mother". The song first came to wider notice when Ry Cooder included a version of Part 2, titled "Tattler", on his 1974 album, '' Paradise and Lunch'' (note, however, that Cooder does not label it as "Part 2"; he also includes two verses from Part 1, which seems to have been unreleased at the time); and whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Are They Doing In Heaven?
"What Are They Doing in Heaven?" is a Christian hymn written in 1901 by American Methodist minister Charles Albert Tindley. , it has become popular enough to have been included in 16 hymnals. The song has sometimes been recorded under the titles "What Are They Doing?" and "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?". The question mark is often omitted. The song may also be known by its first line, "I am thinking of friends whom I used to know". The song consists of four verses and a refrain, each four lines long. In both the verses and the refrain, the first three lines rhyme, and the fourth is "What are they doing now?" or some small variant of that. The author reflects on friends who were burdened in life by care, or by disease, or by poverty; and wonders what they might now be doing in Heaven, without giving his answer. The first known recording of the song is the 1928 one by Washington Phillips (18801954; vocals and zither), in gospel blues style. Phillips' recording was used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Church Needs Good Deacons
"The Church Needs Good Deacons" is a gospel blues song written by Washington Phillips (18801954) and recorded by him in 1929 (vocals and zither). A deacon is a Christian minister associated with service of some kind, which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Phillips refers to the great example of St. Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ..., one of the seven deacons appointed to distribute food and charitable aid to poorer members of the community in the early church. He goes on to say: He condemns deacons of his time who "won't put up with one honest woman, but tries to live with two or three", and concludes with a reference to the description of what the character of a deacon should be in the First Epistle to Timothy (traditionally attr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Train Your Child
"Train Your Child" was recorded in 1928 by Washington Phillips (18801954). It is remarkable in that it divides into two distinct parts: (1) a spoken homily by him about child-rearing, and (2) an instrumental solo in gospel blues style on his unique zither-like instrument. The homily comments on the Book of Proverbs (attributed to King Solomon King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...) at 22:6: Recordings * 1928Washington Phillips, 78rpm single Columbia 14448-D References {{Authority control Blues songs Gospel songs Washington Phillips songs 1928 songs Columbia Records singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There
"Leave It There" is a Christian hymn composed in 1916 by African-American Methodist Minister of religion, minister Charles Albert Tindley, Charles A. Tindley. It has become popular enough to have been included in 12 hymnals; and even to be attributed to "Tradition#Musicology and ethnomusicology, traditional" or "Anonymous work, anonymous". The title is sometimes given as "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There" or as "Take Your Burden to the Lord" or as "Take Your Burden", words taken from the song's refrain; the plurals "burdens" and "them" are sometimes used, and "God" instead of "the Lord": Origins of the lyrics The song relates to Psalms, Psalm s:Bible (King James)/Psalms#Psalm 55, 55:22: and to Christ's words in the Gospel of Matthew at s:Bible (King James)/Matthew#Chapter 11, 11:28-30: It also relates to the Gospel of Matthew at s:Bible (King James)/Matthew#Chapter 6, 6:26: Recording history On December 2, 1927, the song was recorded in gospel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul And Silas In Jail
"Paul and Silas in Jail" is a gospel blues song written by Washington Phillips (18801954), and recorded by him (vocals and zither) in 1927. Description The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi Philippi (; grc-gre, Φίλιπποι, ''Philippoi'') was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides ( grc-gre, Κρηνῖδες, ''Krenides'' "Fountains") after its establishment by Thasian colon ... (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31: Recordings * 1927Washington Phillips, Columbia Records single Other songs * "Paul and Silas (Bound in Jail)", an unrelated gospel song about the same Biblical story; it has sometimes been called "Paul and Silas in Jail" Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lift Him Up That's All
"Lift Him Up That's All" is a gospel blues song recorded in 1927 by Washington Phillips. It is a solo performance, with Phillips' vocals and zither. Description The verses tell the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, found in the Gospel of John at 4:4-30. The refrain draws from the Gospel of John at 12:32, often interpreted as a prophecy of the Crucifixion and/or the Resurrection of Jesus: and runs as follows: The song seems to have fallen into obscurity until revived in 2002 by the bluegrass musician Ralph Stanley. Recordings * 1927Washington Phillips, Columbia Records single * Blind Benny Paris and Wife, Victor Records(?) single * 2002Ralph Stanley, "Lift Him Up, That's All" on the album '' Ralph Stanley'' * 2011 Ralph Stanley, "Lift Him Up, That's All" on the album ''A Mother's Prayer'' Other songs The refrain has some resemblances to that of the 1903 hymn "Lift Him Up" by Johnson Oatman, Jr., but the music and verses are different. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Phillips
George Washington "Wash" Phillips (January 11, 1880 – September 20, 1954) was an American gospel music, gospel and gospel blues singer and instrumentalist. The exact nature of the instrument or instruments he played is uncertain, being identified only as "novelty accompaniment" on the labels of the 78 rpm records released during his lifetime. Biography He was born in Texas, on January 11, 1880, the son of Tim Phillips (from Mississippi) and Nancy Phillips (, from Texas). People who knew him as an adult recalled him as standing about or tall, and being "stocky" or about ; and that he was a Dipping tobacco, snuff-dipper. He farmed of land by the settlement of Simsboro near Teague, Texas. He was described as a "jack-leg preacher"i.e. someone not necessarily an Ordination, ordained Minister (Christianity), minister, who would attend regular services at churches hoping for an opportunity to Sermon, preach, but who would more often address spontaneous gatherings in the street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus Is My Friend
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader; he is the central figure of Christianity, the world's largest religion. Most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Messiah (the Christ) prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically. Research into the historical Jesus has yielded some uncertainty on the historical reliability of the Gospels and on how closely the Jesus portrayed in the New Testament reflects the historical Jesus, as the only detailed records of Jesus' life are contained in the Gospels. Jesus was a Galilean Jew who was circumcised, was baptized by John the Baptist, began his own ministry and was often referred to as "rabbi". Jesus debated with fellow Jews on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
