“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 this emotional life experience! Via youtube now I discovered Naomi Shelton and her Gospel Queens with the same title:
compare:
Eva Cassidy – Wade in the water
Slave Spiritual Story
related:
naomi shelton, gospel queen of brooklyn 2
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/272979/
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