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Lift Every Voice and Sing: Linda Tillery, The Cultural Heritage Choir, and Friends
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2020
- Performed by
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir (vocals and percussion)
joined by
Joey Blake (bass vocals) and David Worm (vocal percussion)
Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble: Leslie Bonnett, Shira Cion, Catherine Rose Crowther, Deborah Dietrich, Juliana Graffagna, Janet Kutulas, Ann Moorhead, and Lily Storm
with
Jackeline Rago and David Thiaw (percussion)
From a 2000 live concert recording made at La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley CA
Available on the album Say Yo' Business (Earthbeat!)
Produced by Linda Tillery, Executive Producer Leib Ostrow
Recorded and mixed by Gary Mankin, Mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA
Video compilation and editing by Kelly Atkins
LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
Original poem by James Wheldon Johnson
Original music by J. Rosamond Johnson
New arrangement on this recording by Linda Tillery - Tuizer Music
Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
‘Til earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on ’til victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
‘Til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - often called “The Black National Anthem” - was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, civil rights activist, and NAACP leader. It was then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1899. "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" was first performed in public in the Johnsons’ hometown of Jacksonville, Florida as part of a celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900 by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal.
-www.NAACP.org
Special thanks to Sandy Morris, Jan Watson, David Dzubinski, Beate Sandor, Vashelle Andre, Privette, James Berry Knox, Carmichael Images, Imago Images, Laurie Lenrow, and many others for the photographs. More photo credits coming soon!
Let everything that has breath, PRAISE THE LORD!
Linda Tillery is a living embodiment of strength, beauty, grace, immense wisdom, and LOVE!! ...and certainly, not enough said! An AMAZING force!
Absolutely Tammy! Linda is a true treasure
Thank you for this awesome video! We are so blessed to have each and every one of these beautiful musicians on the planet with us, especially in these times. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts!
THE definitive version. And btw, this should be our national anthem. YES.
Well, damn!! Thank you for this!!!!
We can sing, shout and glory in our beautiful diversity of one love, one world and one people.
OMG I can't believe this is on UA-cam! I've been playing it on "Say Yo' Business" for about 20 years. Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir are THE BEST.
Thank you Kitka for sharing this sacred moment.
Great to see David and Joey with all these beautiful and famous acappella groups!, swinging!
Beautiful!
Oh, I miss you at EFMF so nice to hear this recording here, although I also have "Say Yo Business."
YES YES YES!!
Thank you!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!! I was looking for the original version but then I heard this!!!!! Oooooooh!!!!!!
Best version I've ever heard !
Best version of this anthem EVER! Linda and choir are on fire.
YOU ROCK!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
I’d like to recommend two other versions: one is Rene Marie doing a mash up or contrafact of LEVAS and Star Spangled Banner at a mayoral event in Denver; the other is recorded yesterday on her FB page Gaye Adegbalola singing along and dancing to CHC studio version.
Beautiful! That is one of the hardest songs to sing-or at least this white women has always struggled with the harmonies. First sang it in my Y Teen group out of the Buchanan Y in SF in 1952.
This white woman finds it a lot easier to sing than the Star-Spangled Banner. ;-) I've known the first two verses cold for about two decades now, but I still struggle with the third. Working on it . . .
@@sjsturgis I'm with you on that. The third verse is a real difficult sing to memorize.