“Wade in the Water” is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901). When I was fifteen (1960) I saved with my GRUNDIG tape-recorder my first version of “WADE IN THE WATER” – as a teenager in Germany, I was honored to be the lead-singer of a gospel group which gave several performances in a little cinema (before BEATLE-mania occupied all audiences).
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Grown up, 35 years later, in New York, Harlem, I was happy, that I could listen to a real Gospel choir in a church (not on vinyl so many decades before). I’ll never forget that emotional life experience!
Via youtube now I discovered Naomi Shelton and her Gospel Queens with the same title:
Slave Spiritual Story
Margriet Sjoerdsma
Marlena Shaw
Sweet Honey In The Rock
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Wow!
Wade in the water.
Such an emotional piece. I enjoyed all the various renditions.
Slave spiritual story almost moved me to tears.
while Margriet Sjoerdsma’s version made me pick up my guitar and play!
Thanks for sharing!
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Great post, Fritz. Too bad Eva Cassidy’s career was so short.
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Lovely, lovely, lovely… Indeed!
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Gets right to the roots – heart and soul, Frizz.
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So many great versions!
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a Dutch violinist who liked the last video (with a violinist) has sent another link to me: Bob Dylan with a violin sister in white:
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more with Scarlet Rivera (Dylan’s violinist) at
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Oh Sister by Bob Dylan:
http://www.e-chords.com/chords/bob-dylan/oh-sister
maybe my next cover experiment…
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Very moving. Thank you for sharing so many different versions. I enjoyed them all.
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I love that song, and what a great story, your journey from finding gospel music as a child, performing, and then finally hearing gospel in Harlem. I love Naomi – what a voice! What command of the audience, the song, everything!
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