Some late Good Friday and pre-Easter Easter selections, starting with Emma L. Ashford's famous chroal work, Lift Up Your Heads, which ends with a dose of All Hail the Power the Power of Jesus' Name. Wish I had a copy of the words to post, but you can download a choral copy on line if you wish. Technically, it's as Ascension number, but it's used on Easter, so here it is. The all-time gospel Easter song (along with He Lives, aka I Serve a Risen Savior) is here in a version I haven't posted before--Christ Arose, this time by the Collegiate Choir on Brunswick, 1920.
The mainline-hymnal all-time classic, Christ the Lord Is Risen To-day, is sung (beautifully) by Louise Homer.
We get three helpings of the ultra-down home Southern quartet Smith's Sacred Singers, two Homer Rodeheavers, and two Trinity Choir selections. Profoundly distinguished Fanny Crosby lyrics in the classic Tell Me the Story of Jesus, and a superb text for Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb. I'm just now appreciating the ingeniousness of the latter's words.
I'd meant to get this up earlier, but what are plans in the scheme of things? Enjoy! More Easter sounds to come.
DOWNLOAD: Easter and late Good Friday
Lift up Your Heads (Emma L. Asford)--Columbia A1713 (1915)
Old Rugged Cross (George Bennard)--Arthur Cornwall and William Cleary, 1930
Christ the Lord Is Risen To-day (C. Wesley)--Louise Homer, Contralto, 1022
Christ Arose (Lowry)--Collegiate Choir, 1920
Jesus Died for Me--Smith's Sacred Singers,1929
He Bore It All (Baxter Jr.-Stamps)--Same, 1927
Love Led Him to Calvary (Webster-Gabriel)--Mrs. William Asher-Homer Rodeheaver, 1925
Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb (Elisha A. Hoffman)--Smith's Sacred Singers, 1929
Tell Me the Story of Jesus (Fanny J. Crosby--Jno. R. Sweney)--Homer Rodeheaver, 1920
Calvary (Darwood-Sweney)--Trinity Choir, 1913
Jesus Lives! (Gellert-Cox-Gauntlett)--Same, 1922
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