Negro Melody Singers Program No. 13
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
This presentation of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Music Project features the Negro Melody Singers lead by Juanita Hall.
The group performs a medley of spiritual songs. The announcer introduces each song while saying a few words about the group, African spiritual music or the work of the WPA.
Intro: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Free at Last
Who Join That Union?
Who Built That Ark?
Certainly Lord
This Train
Same Train
Sign of the Judgement
Outro: Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Recorded between 1935 and 1938.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150198
Municipal archives id: LT4766
