I grew up with this music playing in our big 3 room apartment. We would get up early on Saturday mornings and clean the house. I love - love this music. It means the world to me. Mr. Shaw will live forever as long as this music is playing. Our children needs to hear this type of music - you can not miss the message. Thank you for sharing

My folks, now in Heaven, were missionary’s in South America and in the late 1950’s I clearly remember my father enjoying listening to this record. Fond memories.

Well I am almost 70 and I've just always loved music like this it just touches your soul the spirituals I love the great Afro-American spirituals and the control toes you're beautiful sopranos of course the base and the baritone thank you so very much for bringing this to my attention I watched it once then they put it in my phone with my the rest of my things of interest and I'm just love it so much I keep listening to her over and hold God's blessings for everyone always to all of you 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻💜🙏🏻💜💯

Carol Coles - No matter how many times I listen to Robert Shaw (Spirituals), my heart is moved. I remember how excellent this music & choral perfection is and that no one could reproduce to this level of greatness.

@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

Search on 'Harry Thacker Burleigh'.

Wonderful! The voces Thatcher Robert Shaw John in this

@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

The music of Harry Thacker Burleigh is a national and international treasure. His life story is also tremendous.

Despite oppression, cruelty, injustice and unrighteousness GOD’s people were able to transcend all to create this beautiful music that testified that in the end all knees shall bow and every tongue will process the majesty and might of THE MOST HIGH GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!

So many years ago when I was in school, I heard this spiritual and all my fears about whether I could sing this went away. The spirituals of so many years ago that people of color sang came back and when I stood before the choral judges, my voice rose to heaven and I passed the grade. These spirituals will uplift anyone no matter the color. Blessings to all.

These great choral works bring back many wonderful memories as a high school chorister, with my mother Shirley Lee Cross as my musician mentor. How blessed she was to study and sing in the outstanding Tuskegee. Institute choral. As well, Donald Neuen, my University Choral conductor embellished my studies while at ESM. Mr. Neuen was a student of Robert Shaw and sang with choral. What Blessings I have truly experienced.

Esta música siempre me acompaña e inspira desde la edad de 16 años, hoy tengo 85 años. Doy gracias a este famoso y talentoso director de coros y orquesta que nos acompañó en este mundo hasta el 25 de enero de 1999 señor Robert Shaw por su talento

@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

You would probably enjoy the results of a search on 'Harry Thacker Burleigh' - his music and life story are a testimony of God's faithfulness to us, even if it takes generations.

Absolutely beautiful, Robert Shaw does all these spirituals so well. I always heard these spirituals in my home church many years ago. What a blessing.

@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

You had a GOOD home church!

Breathakingly stunning. A vocal treasure. I miss choral singing like this. It thrills me through and through. Bless you, God, for allowing me to find it on KZread. Sometimes they get it VERY right 😁🎶✝💖

@georgealexander8661

4 жыл бұрын

Dear TANYA DIXON...How true! Good insight!! 🌹🌹

Douglas Murray brought me here. I didn't know what kind of music this was until now. It really reminds me of old Disney cartoons when they wanted to put music to an idyllic setting. I really liked the portions This Old Hammer and Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Very good music, very romantic yet strong sounding.

I love these old spirituals! They are just so so beautiful and really touch the heart about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and how interesting the old old spirituals are I love them all thank you so very much for bringing them to me it's so rare when you're here ones like this I'm so glad there is a channel out there that one's like us it's getting rare and more rare for people to want to hear beautiful beautiful old spirituals is this thank you very much God blessings everyone that reads this take a little subscription out to these people they have done a wonderful wonderful job all in God's blessings forever and ever and always amen 🙏🏻💜🏄🏼‍♂️💐❤️🐱🙏🏻💜🙏🏻💯

Thank you for bringing this to KZread. Music form the finest choral directors of the 20th. century - between Robert Shaw and Norman Luboff there is such great music for us to hang on to. When you listen to these great blended voices shaped by great directors it stays with you for a lifetime. Music with such feeling, so much soul cannot be contrived when it is sang 'a cappella'. I am 77 now and I am utterly transformed listening...

@georgealexander8661

4 жыл бұрын

Dear GUY BROWN...Am 91...Know what you mean!!

a very best moment! I love. It reminds me an old movie on black and white tv. This kind of music whitch haunts you pretty well all the life. Thank you. 🌞

Thank you and God bless you brother, in Faith. I needed to hear this simple, sincere wholesome music. It is a prayer, in times like these. I say, "Amen". My soul says, "Thank God for Jesus" .

My brother owned this record when I was a child, and I used to listen to it hundreds of times. I memorized all the words and melodies. Thank you so much for bringing back this nostalgia!

Our choir performed this arrangement some years ago. It was a pleasure and blessing to be a member of that choir.

Thanks so much for this magnificent recording. I remember Robert Shaw Chorale well. His music impacted me deeply. I'm nearly 80 now. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

@georgealexander8661

4 жыл бұрын

Dear CAROLYN MOORE..Am 91 and agree whole- heartedly!! 🥰🥰🌹🌹🌹👏👏

@selitajimenez182

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgealexander8661 I'm only a teenager, and I am doing an assignment for my school choir, and I must say.. this is beautiful music! Hearing voices come together like this is just stunning!! It's incredible to know that you grew up with this. I hope you are doing well!

@ishmyl99

8 ай бұрын

Is that u, Carolanne? Frm Saturdays, 9 a.m., LB.

❤ beautiful

I also bought this in 1958 and it's never left my mind or my heart. An astonishing piece.

Back in '77/'78 a young lady who sang alto in the Shaw chorale in Atlanta was a customer of mine, and we spent quite a bit of time talking music, voice, and singing. She invited me to audition (I doubt seriously I'd have made the cut), but I was working full time and trying to finish my last year of college. I have regretted not taking the opportunity ever since. I found this wonderful album while searching for one of Shaw's Christmas albums. (It isn't Christmas if I haven't listened to the Shaw Chorale!) I've heard a couple of these pieces on other recordings, but the album as a whole is new to me. Thank you so much for sharing!

多分この音源はレコ-ド盤だと思います。独特のノイズが昔のことを思い出させてくれます有難うございます。

Since I first heard "Deep River" performed by Robert Shaw Corale, about 40 years ago, this has been my favorite choral piece of all time. What wonderful musical artistry to present such a powerful setting and lyric. To God be the Glory.

Tears always come to my eyes when I hear this...also when I hear Marion Anderson's recording.

Absolutely astounding. You can certainly hear the difference in an analog recording versus a digital recording. The sound is so much richer, even with the slight fuzz. This is a truly wonderful arrangement, too. When I was in highschool we performed a number of these beautiful pieces. Daniel is one I very much remember, but a slightly different melody. Our choir was 212 voices, and the wall of sound is incredible.

Great arrangement of a wonderful song, popularized by Harry Thacker Burleigh.

Thank you so much for your effort. This is exquisite.

Gorgeous !!! The most important culture of America ..........please go back to the nature of classic Era. ..........

It was dream of mine at the age of sixteen to sing with The Robert Shaw Chorale....one of my favorite choral masterpieces!

Robert Shaw is by far one of my favorite and this Album is superior! Thank you for the labor you put into it, so the rest of us could enjoy you. I am 38 and I am sharing this music with my little ones. Rich and truly soulful.

@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

You would probably enjoy doing a search on 'Harry Thacker Burleigh'. His songs and life story are tremendous!

Thank you for recording this album. It is an old favorite that inspired and comforted is for years, until record plays relinquished their shelf space to the VCR.😢 The record is in excellent condition and the recording is very good. Thank you!

ericyolanda , gracias hermano, estoy llorando de emoción nuevamente, cuando era estudiante canté en un coro estos arreglos y te agradezco con el alma el trabajo de edición que has hecho. Un abrazo desde Buenos Aires , ARGENTINA

C'est tout simplement magnifique !

@aurorabantersnatch3914

3 жыл бұрын

Je suis d'accord!

thank you so much for saving a gem like this, in a time when a light is fading we need to hold on to the good stuff.

@lucybrindlebrownie8994

Жыл бұрын

OH AMEN !

תושב מעומק הלב.כל כך מרגש לשמוע שוב את המקהלה האהובה.מרגש..

אחד התקליטים האהובים עלי ביותר

Thank you for sharing this. Tears came when I listened to this album. It soothed me a lot. Thank you.

many have commented that this recording takes them back to the last midcentury. My brother got ths album as aprt of an RCA record club in the early 60's. He and I wore it out. The voices are massively subperb, but is the faith of the songs to our God that moves me. The balck people that formed these songs had a faith born of the anvil. The light still shines across the centuries.

@dannymoore5510

Жыл бұрын

Sorry for the typos

@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

You would probably enjoy the results of a search on 'Harry Thacker Burleigh', a great composer who is all too often overlooked. May his music transcend the generations!

0:00 Deep River 2:59 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel 4:48 Every Time I Feel The Spirit 6:28 I Wanna Be Ready 9:10 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 12:38 This Ol' Hammer 17:03 This Little Light O' Mine 20:22 Who Is That Yonder 23:23 Lord, If I Got My Ticket 24:55 Soon One Mornin' 28:15 There Is A Balm In Gilead 32:25 Soon-a Will Be Done 34:21 My Lord, What A Morning 38:21 Dry Bones 40:50 Ain'-a That Good News 41:54 Set Down, Servant

@martialmusic

4 жыл бұрын

Prospoful thank you for building that menu

@georgealexander8661

4 жыл бұрын

Dear PROSPOFUL, Thank you ever so much for giving us all titles!! 👏👏👏✌✌✌🥰🥰🥰

@veranak6173

3 жыл бұрын

Prospoful Thank you very much!!!

@solohoh

2 жыл бұрын

Helpful, thanks

I spent the morning trying to buy this recording on CD. Evidently it never made it to CD production. I had the LP, a favorite, that was lost when I moved from Ohio to Nevada. 😢

My father bought this album in the 50's. It was the first time I had heard of the Robert Shaw Chorale. Later Shaw became my favorite choral conductor and influenced my own choral conducting immensely. I have tried to collect all his recordings, including the CD's made with the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Shaw Chamber Singers. What an inspiration!

beautiful......thanks for taking the work to save this outstanding choir

By chance, I came across this site. The Robert Shaw Chorale has been my most favorite chorus group, since 1960s. It is really teary for me that such chorus groups are now in "Endangered Species" like our college alumni male chorus group.Anyhow, I am really grateful to you for uploading, which has brought me back to my college time.

Oh my, this music reaches into the depths of my soul. Thank you for sharing!!!

PBS just did an hour long special on the life and work of Robert Shaw. He was not a perfect person, but the beauty of his work left me in tears.

@gilbertodeandradegaia6779

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody is...

This is from Jeff's wife, not Jeff. It was I who grew up with this album. My mom got this record before she was married and we all learned it by heart. We also had their "Joy to the World" album from the same year. I love that these albums are acapella except for a piano in "Dem Bones".

Amazing voices

wow ! 🤔😊

I had never heard of Robert Shaw. This music fits into my expanding music interests very nicely! Big voices are great.

Brings back wonderful memories! I was very fortunate to sit in on the recording sessions of some of these. Took place in a decommissioned dance ballroom in NY City. I got in because I had been one of Shaw's paid tenors in his Shaker Heights Unitarian Church choir in the '50s. Definitely the best choral conductor of our era. The only one who could rival him was the great Robert Fountain of Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio, near Cleveland where Shaw was at the time.

@salal2007

5 жыл бұрын

it must have been very special to hear it live!

@alicemeyer9851

5 жыл бұрын

Wow!! My Aunt Jane was the soloist for "This little Light of Mine" and my Uncle Kruesi was "God" singing "Sit Down Servant".

@johnbarnes5924

4 жыл бұрын

James Fankhauser 22

@desmondpierre-louis948

3 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!!! Love your story! Shaw Chorale has and always will be my favorite! Love this recording!

@eleanoredwards7258

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for that memory and mention, Jim. College Choir sang with him twice while I was at Oberlin (two Bach Cantatas) and we had been prepared by Mr. Fountain. My husband, Peter Edwards, had been Mr. Fountain's assistant while we were there and he mentioned you often.. He went on to start his own group in South Weymouth, south of Boston, and we did many of these same spirituals inspired by Mr. Shaw. A great conductor and spiritual man.

Haven't heard this for years. Loved it then, love it now. Thanks for the upload!

Eric, Thanks so much for re-recording this album. Like you, it had a considerable impact on me when I was 14 an, like you, I searched for a CD of it, without result. I own an album of it, too. Thanks again.

Very nice, thank you for posting this!

Thank you!!!!! I had this album in the 60s, since then I haven't enjoyed it.

Thanks so much for sharing this album! The Shaw sound has long since since set the standard in my choral ear and conducting since the 70's when I first heard them. This is a treasure.

WONDERFULLY DONE!!! Had some recordings of Robert Shaw Choralle way back 1960s and just LOVE THEM. THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting these recordings.

Thank you, thank you! This is music from my early childhood in the 60s. I did not know of the connection until well after she was gone, but the premiere choral conductor in my home town during the 90s had worked closely with Shaw, and she in turn was chosen to assemble a choir to perform in Alaska with the Kamchatka Men's Choir and the National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich. It's no stretch to say that hearing this album as a lad put me on those risers.

Thanks for posting. I sang many of these arrangements in college and after and am pleasantly surprised at how well I remember them all!

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@timeno1763

3 ай бұрын

Be sure to search on 'Harry Thacker Burleigh'. His songs and life history are precious!

I forgot telling you my thanks for your great efforts for preparation ro upload the LP record. Again I would like to say thanks to you for your great efforts from Urayasu-city, Japan.

Thanks so much! Robert Shaw a favorite of mine too. His album "With Love from a Chorus" was the first sound out of my parents' brand new high fi set (a high fi was a Big Deal back t hen). Their joy in these sounds was unparalled. And I still find them exceptionally fine.

One of my favorite albums. Unfortunately never reissued. I have two copies, one unsatisfactory (noisy) and one satisfactory. Thank you for posting this. Interestingly, none of the arrangements presented here -- except of “Set Down, Servant” and one other, which I can’t remember -- were by Shaw or his assistant Alice Parker. The pianist in “Dry Bones” is John Wustman, who was accompanist over several decades to several noted singers -- one was Luciano Pavarotti. This is one of my favorite Shaw albums, done in about 1957 or ‘58. “Set Down, Servant” was one of Shaw’s early successes. I wish I had the score. It’s just as fun to look at as it is to experience, or to conduct.

thank you. This recording is so beautiful. I was lucky to inherit my grandfather's record collection which includes a number of other Robert Shaw Chorale LPS but not this one.

Thanks for this. I love this and Songs of the South with the Norman Luboff choir. Personally I think the vinyl sound is essential

Thank you so much for sharing this recording !

Thank you for going through the trouble to upload this beautiful album. I was looking for evidence that 'chariot' in the song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is pronounced with a silent 't'--à la française--because it comes up in a poem, Rayford's Song, by Lawson Inada. Indeed, they do so in this album in 1958. THANKS, again! ; )

Robert Shaw's conducting and Alice Parker's arrangements combined with hand picked singers resulted in perfection!

@gibsonbe1

5 жыл бұрын

Most of the arrangements here are by other arrangers. Alice's are Set Down Servant, and Lord, If I get a ticket. The others are by H. T. Burleigh, John W. Work III, Levi Dawson, and James Miller. I am not sure who arranged Who is that yonder. However, Alice Parker's arrangements stands up with this list of great arrangers.

Prospoful - 4 years ago: 00:00 Deep River 02:59 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel 04:48 Every Time I Feel The Spirit 06:28 I Wanna Be Ready 09:10 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 12:38 This Ol' Hammer 17:03 This Little Light O' Mine 20:22 Who Is That Yonder 23:23 Lord, If I Got My Ticket 24:55 Soon One Mornin' 28:15 There Is A Balm In Gilead 32:25 Soon-a Will Be Done 34:21 My Lord, What A Morning 38:21 Dry Bones 40:50 Ain'-a That Good News 41:54 Set Down, Servant

This is so great, thank you very much for all of your hard work in making this classic LP sound so good. I too wish it was available on CD. Maybe sometime later hopefully.

I'm not religious, but I love this.

AMAZING!

Muchas gracias

Thank you so much for your work and posting. Incomparable RSC. Check out the Rose Ensemble, too.

For those that want only the best. Look no further.

Yes!!! Robert Shaw is also my favorite conductor (probably of all time if I had to choose) :-) However I admire so many conductors. Thank you so much for posting this. I absolutely love his spiritual arrangements and recordings with the RS Chorale. This unique and rich sound that the Chorale had brings such great feeling and old memories back. (Though I am not that old; my childhood was spent listening to these.) Is there a way you could possibly post any actual footage of Shaw as well? Perhaps any video concerts of his? As much as I admire his work, I have never really seen him properly like I have seen Leonard Bernstein, or Charles Munch...ect. For there are many video recordings of them but very little of Shaw (as far as video) can be found.

9:11 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

@JanetESmith-er8sk

4 жыл бұрын

Brandon James Swing Low Sweet Chario? Yes!!!!! Chariot has silent “t”according to French pronunciation!

Does anyone have the url to this video? Please let me know. Happy Holidays!

I have a much better transfer of this album (and many others) if anyone is interested. I had to buy six copies or so to get a decent one. I've never posted on youtube but I suppose I could figure it out.

We've just opened a new website all about Robert Shaw. I would like to post some of these old recordings at the site. You can get in touch with us through the site: robertshaw.website (yes, just put that in your browser) - hope to hear from ericyolanda

What a great post, effort and album. But seems to me that the pickup needle is running among the grooves with a extra weight, which produces a sound on the recording like a woool... woool. Would you try to do it again putting less weight on the needle? About the scratches: do you ever cleaned the record with water and soap? It helps to clean off any dust on the grooves and make better the sound quality.

Here's the whole thing in a playlist, 2 tracks in one file a peace, but I like this original vinyl much better. kzread.info/head/PLpbQafyxD8KXjw-xSWsYr7yWvcv4KavID

A masterpiece. Too bad a CD was not created.

@user-ob5iq6vf9t

4 жыл бұрын

יש לי טקלית מלפני שישים שנה ואני נפעם כל יום מחדש לשמוע את המקהלה המופלאה

Isaiah 42-44