HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING

Created on 21/06/2006
Latest update on 12/06/2024

Artist: Henry Burr
Author: Robert Lowry/trad.
Label: Angelophone
Year: 1916

Hymn sung by abolitionist Quakers since slavery days. Lowry was a Baptist minister from Pennsylvania who first published it in Bright Jewels For The Sunday School (1869).

Covers:

1956:

Doris Plenn

1964:

Pete Seeger [gave its title to his biography]

1982:

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie

1987:

Jean Redpath

1991:

Enya [sued for copyright infringement; she assumed the song was traditional while one of the verses was added by Doris Plenn]

1994:

Glenn & Holly Yarbrough

1996:

Eva Cassidy [posthumous]

2005:

Judy Collins

2006:

Bruce Springsteen

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