![]() ![]() Joan Baez's 1962 In Concert, Volume 1 included her version of the song. It was recorded by Pete Seeger in 1958, and The Weavers released it on Traveling on With the Weavers in 1959. As this group traveled from summer camp to summer camp teaching folk songs, they may be the origin of Kumbaya around the campfire. The Folksmiths including Joe Hickerson recorded the first LP version of the song in August 1957. We've Got Some Singing To Do track listing Song by The Folksmiths including Joe Hickerson from the album We've Got Some Singing To Do Hear me crying and laughing, my Lord, kum bay ya The song enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s, largely due to Joan Baez's 1962 recording of the song, and became associated with the Civil Rights Movement of that decade. ![]() Joe Hickerson later succeeded Gordon at the American Folklife Center. Hickerson credits Tony Saletan, then a songleader at the Shaker Village Work Camp, for introducing him to "Kumbaya" (Saletan had learned it from Lynn Rohrbough, co-proprietor with his wife Katherine of the camp songbook publisher Cooperative Recreation Service). Joe Hickerson, one of the Folksmiths, recorded the song in 1957, as did Pete Seeger in 1958. ![]() Freedman goes on to discuss the usage of kumbaya as a term of political rhetoric. According to Samuel Freedman ( The New York Times, November 20, 2010), the metamorphosis to the "African" word Kumbaya was explained in liner notes to a 1959 Pete Seeger album, but "no scholar has ever found an indigenous word 'kumbaya' with a relevant meaning.". This account is contradicted by the fact that a nearly identical Gullah version of the song was recorded almost two decades earlier. This family toured America singing the song with the text "Kum Ba Yah". Frey claimed the change of the title to "Kum Ba Yah" came about in 1946, when a missionary family returned from Africa where they had sung Frey's version and slightly changed the words. Frey, a lyric sheet printed in Portland, Oregon in 1939. It first appeared in this version in Revival Choruses of Marvin V. Frey (1918–1992) claimed to have written the song circa 1936 under the title "Come By Here," inspired, he claimed, by a prayer he heard delivered by "Mother Duffin," a storefront evangelist in Portland, Oregon. These facts contradict the longstanding copyright and authorship claim of Reverend Marvin V. In May 1936, John Lomax, Gordon's successor as head of the Library of Congress's folk archive, discovered a woman named Ethel Best singing "Come by Here" with a group in Raiford, Florida. ![]() Between 19, four more versions of traditional spirituals with the refrain "Come by Here" or "Come by Heah" were recorded in South Carolina and Georgia on wax cylinder by Robert Winslow Gordon, founder of what became the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. "Come By Heah", as they called it, was sung in Gullah, the creole language spoken by the former slaves living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Research in Kodaly Envoy by Lum Chee-Hoo has found that sometime between 19, members of an organization called the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals collected a song from the South Carolina coast. Come By Here / Kum Ba Ya / Kumbaya transcribed by the United States Library of Congress from a 1926 recording. ![]()
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