Los Angeles Negro Choir Program No. 64

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1936-uu-uu.

This presentation of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Music Project features the Los Angeles Negro Choir singing traditional African Spiritual music.

Certainly Lord
I Got a Home in That Rock
Go Down Moses
Be Ready When He Comes
Four and Twenty Elders
Good News

The announcer urges listeners to visit WPA projects in their area.

[Recorded in 1936.]



Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 150506
Municipal archives id: LT5428

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