Expert: Jim Tompkins-MacLaine - 10/25/2008

Question
Dear Friends,

I wonder if you can help me?

I'm writing an article on the history of the song Down by the Riverside etc., and
I'm especially interested in the old 78rpm 45, EP and LP recordings of the song.

http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/riverside.pdf

but also new versions of the song are being recorded.

So far I have indexed about 2800 recordings of the song, but I might be missing a lot of the early recordings before world war 2.

http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/abase/sange/diskografi.xml

I got the Fisk 1920 recording on a cd and Sam Morgans 1927 version, but if you got other versions, I would like to recieve them as I'm interested in the early development of the tune to the song.

Love,
Holger Terp
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/ht.htm

Editor
The Danish Peace Academy
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/

and
http://www.kvinderforfred.dk/

Music in the Peace Academy (Danish and English)
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/abase/sange/index.htm

Greenham Common Peace Camps Songbooks
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/abase/sange/greenham.htm

email
holgerterp@pc.dk

Answer
Check out a recording by the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers. They continue the tradition of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. I sang with them for eight years, and it's very likely I'm singing on the recording. - Jim

P.S. Google albert mcneil jubilee singers. You should find what you need.