I Just Wanted You to Know Gospel Song
When you mention gospel songs about people think of Southern gospel, which became pop in the Southern United States during the 1020s, '30s, '40s and '50s. It is that Christian music that has "quartet-way" harmonies and a piano.[1] Only I believe some famous Gospel songs came even before the birth of Southern gospel. I am talking about those songs considered to be American religious music that started on the plantations in Southern America; sung by the Christian African slaves while they worked and attended church. Most of the famous gospel songs known today would be based on the onetime Negro Spirituals that have the classic syncopated vanquish and even at times more than than one rhythm (polyrhythmic) which is played at the aforementioned time. Many of them have been sung since the 1600s becoming very popular in the 1800s.
The authorship of many of the Negro Spirituals is unknown. These gospel songs were mostly made up of just v notes; simple to sing and easy to harmonize. The words more often than not come straight from the scriptures in these gospel songs and they are sung with much emotion.[2] Be sure to listen to the video in the upper right of this page for a medley of many famous gospel songs.
I establish a slap-up site with history and information for the Negro Spiritual[iii]. The site does a bang-up job explaining the basically three dissimilar classes of song in this genre:
- the "call and response chant"
- the slow, sustained, long-phrase tune
- and the syncopated, segmented melody
Famous Gospel Songs: Sample of Each Class
Swing Depression Sweetness Chariot (Wallace Willis)
In this most famous phone call and response chant type song the "preacher" sings the first line and the "congregation" echos with a response:
Preacher: Swing low, sweetness chariot
Congregation: Coming for to carry me home
Preacher: Swing low, sweet chariot
Congregation: Coming for to comport me dwelling
Preacher: If you get there before I practise
Congregation: Coming for to carry me abode
Preacher: Tell all my friends, I'g coming too
Congregation: Coming for to carry me home
Deep River
Listen to this slow, sustained, long-phase tune by Spiritual Workshop Paris. Click on the sound file for a sample of this famous gospel song:
Deep River Audio
Oh Happy Solar day (Philip Doddridge)
The syncopated, segmented tune is e'er sung past a choir and it features an upbeat tune and lots of swaying. I think you lot will bask this famous gospel vocal sung by the award winning Soweto Gospel Choir. I want to sing lead on this one in Heaven — and I'grand gonna dance also!
Other Famous Gospel Songs
Astonishing Grace (John Newton)
This popular gospel vocal was written by a slave transport's helm. Although considered speculation, this song is attributed to an quondam slave melody and originally played only on the blackness keys of the piano, which gave it a very "minor" and sorrowful melody. My favorite verse is below. You volition not find it in all hymnals:
When we've been there
Ten thousand years
Bright shining every bit the sun
We've no less days
To Sing God's praise
Then when nosotros first begun
Become Down, Moses
I would classify this i as a slow, sustained, long-phrase melody and I believe it is all-time sung by a man with a very low, bass voice. This song is based on the scripture Exodus 5:ane Here is a audio bite: Become Down, Moses
- When Israel was in Egypt'due south land,
Let My people go!
Oppressed so hard they could not stand,
Permit My people go!
- Refrain:
Go downward, Moses,
Way down in Egypt'due south land;
Tell erstwhile Pharaoh
To let My people go!- No more shall they in bondage toil,
Let My people go!
Let them come out with Egypt'south spoil,
Let My people go- Oh, let us all from chains flee,
Let My people go!
And let us all in Christ exist gratis,
Allow My people go!- You demand non ever weep and mourn,
Let My people go!
And clothing these slav'ry chains forlorn,
Let My people get!- Your foes shall not earlier you stand up,
Let My people go!
And yous'll possess fair Canaan'southward land,
Allow My people get!
He'southward Got the Whole World In His Hands (H.Linden, Geoffrey Love)
This is a bully song to sing with children. It includes motions and is sung in unison. Here is an ambrosial grouping of Zambian children singing it:
It's a Me Oh Lord (Standing in the Need of Prayer)
I sang this one with my children when they were little and it was one that the children at church honey to sing to. Tin you tell me what class this one falls into? I could non resist sharing this video with you:
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
This is a song of great sorrow leading to hope and joy with the lyrics "Glory Hallelujah". Information technology is sung in the tiresome, sustained, long-phrase style. The about famous, rendition in later years was done by Louis Armstrong. Hither is a audio bite: Nobody Knows Accept a await at the lyrics:
Nobody knows the trouble that I've seen
Nobody knows my sorrow
Nobody knows the problem that I've seen
Glory hallelujiah
Nobody knows the trouble that I've seen
Nobody knows my, my sorrow
Nobody knows the problem that I've seen
Glory hall- glory hallelujiah
Sometimes I'yard upwards and sometimes I'1000 downwards
Oh, yes lord
Yous know sometimes almost to the ground
Oh, oh yes lord
Still, nobody knows the problem that I've seen
Nobody, nobody knows my, my sorrow
Nobody knows the trouble that I've seen
Glory hallelujiah
If you get at that place earlier I do
Oh, oh yes lord
Don't forget to tell all my friends I'm comin' also
Whoa, oh yeah lord
Even so, nobody knows the problem that I've seen
Nobody knows my sorrow
Nobody knows the problem that I've seen
Glory hall- hallelujiah
Sinner Please
The famous gospel song was sung in the fields and the author is unknown. The lyrics speak for themselves:
Sinner, please don't permit this harvest pass
Sinner, please don't permit this harvest pass
Sinner, please don't let this harvest pass
And die and lose your soul at terminal.
I know that my Redeemer lives
I know that my Redeemer lives
I know that my Redeemer lives
Sinner, please don't allow this harvest pass
Sinner, O see the fell tree
Sinner, O come across the cruel tree
Sinner, O see the cruel tree
Where Christ died for y'all and me
My God is a mighty man of state of war
My God is a mighty man of war
My God is a mighty man of war
Sinner, please don't allow this harvest pass
We Shall Overcome (Rev. Charles Tindley)
Original lyrics "I shall overcome" were changed to "We shall overcome" and fabricated famous during the US Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Here is a lovely arrangement sung by the young men of Morehouse Higher. I cannot hear this vocal without the following scripture coming to mind: "For there is no respect of persons with God" (Romans 2:11).
Sources:
[1] Way of Life Literature, Inc.
[2] http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/gospel+music
[3] http://world wide web.negrospirituals.com/song.htm
The Holy Bible, Male monarch James Version
Various YouTube videos
Source: https://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/10-famous-gospel-songs/
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