Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly / Rockin’ Jerusalem

Bibliography and Credits

 

 

Music

 

 

  1. “Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly”, SNCC Freedom Singers (1962), Bertha Gober, Rutha Harris, Charles Sherrod, Jamie Culbreath; Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs, Smithsonian Folkways, 1992.  Refer to General Bibliography for links to all tracks on this disc.

 

  1. “Oh Pritchett, Oh Kelly”, SNCC Freedom Singers (1963), led by Bertha Gober; Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966.  Smithsonian Folkways, 1997.  Refer to General Bibliography for links to all tracks on these two discs.

 

  1. “Rockin’ Jerusalem”, Fisk Jubilee Singers,  In Bright Mansions,   Curb Records, 2003. Samples from this CD can be heard at http://www.fiskjubileesingers.org/bright_mansions.html. The compilation is a live studio recording of 18 a cappella spirituals.

 

  1. “Rockin’ Jerusalem”, Doug Wamble, Bluestate, Rounder Records,  2005.

    Song clip and annotation from http://www.rounder.com/?id=album.php&catalog_id=6705.  On the traditional "Rockin' Jerusalem" (featuring some hot blowing from producer Branford Marsalis), Wamble allows space for magic to happen, and the listener is never disappointed.   Samples from this album can be heard at
    http://www.rounder.com/?id=album.php&catalog_id=6705.

 

Lyrics

  1. “Rockin’ Jerusalem”, 7th Heaven, http://www.songpeddler.com/7thHeaven/RockinJerusalem_7Heaven.asp.  This online web site creates “virtual CDs” on-the-fly when a person downloads any collection of tracks.
  2. Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs, Compiled and Edited by Guy and Candie Carawan,  A Sing Out Publication, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,  1990.  This book was originally published as two volumes entitled: We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement, Oak Publications, 1963, and, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Freedom Movement, Oak Publications, 1968. 

 

 

 

Sheet Music

 

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs, Compiled and Edited by Guy and Candie Carawan,  A Sing Out Publication, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,  1990. 

 

Books

 

If You Don’t Go, Don’t Hinder Me, Bernice Johnson Reagon, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2001, p. 96.