"Let Your Light Shine on Me" is a traditional

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song, having been recorded by The Wiseman Quartet in 1923, by Ernest Phipps in 1928, and by

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in 1929. The song itself is also known as "Shine On Me", "Let It Shine on Me", "Light from the Lighthouse" and "Light from Your Lighthouse".

Description

Ernest Phipps' version, like almost all early renditions, starts in a slow tempo and is then reprised at a much faster tempo. Johnson's version was released on Columbia 14490-D together with "

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". He starts singing in his tenor voice, then drops into his 'growl' or false bass voice for the middle section. The chorus runs: The words appear to allude to the

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at 5:16: "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven". "Lighthouse" was a popular metaphor for heavenly light.

Performances

The following recordings, which vary widely in character, are by people with Wikipedia articles: * 1928 "Shine On Me" by Ernest Phipps * 1929

* 193449"(Let It) Shine on Me" by

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* 1958"Light from the Lighthouse" by

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on the album ''Lonnie'' * 1960"Let the Light from the Lighthouse Shine" by Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band on the album ''The Seven Ages of Acker'' * 1963"The Light from the Lighthouse" by

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on the album '' Introducing the Seekers'' * 1967Medley "All Too Much for Me/Take Your Burden to the Lord/Light from the Lighthouse" by

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from the Chelsea Demo Sessions, released in 2005 on the album ''From Chelsea to Toronto'' * 1984"Light from the Lighthouse" by

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as bonus track on the double album re-release ''Restless Faithful Desperate / Moonlight'' * 2004The Venice Four with Rose Stone and the Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir, on the soundtrack of the movie '' The Ladykillers'' * 2008"Light from Your Lighthouse" by The Fireman (

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) on the album ''

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''. New extended verses, based around the original chorus. * 2009"Light from the Lighthouse" by The Radiators on the album ''10/09/09 New Orleans, LA Tipitinas'' * 2010"Light from Your Lighthouse" by

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on the album ''Glory in the Meeting House'' * 2011 "

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'' by Half Man Half Biscuit. The line "Let the light from your lighthouse shine on me" is quoted three times in the closing chorus.

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has played the song live, but not recorded it.

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on the album ''Shine on Me''. The opening line is "I wonder if the lighthouse will shine on me", but the remainder of the song differs from the subject of this article * 1987"Let the Light (Shine on Me)" by the band

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on the album ''Nyana'' * 2004"Let Your Light Shine on Me" by

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on the album ''Food for the Spirit'' * 2017"Shine on Me" by

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on the album ''

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