This is a magnificent hymn and the singing is indeed powerful!! Is this a variant of the "meter hymns" that are often attributed to the Primitive Baptists? Please advise at your convenience. Thank you.
Now I have never heard this version of this hymn before. VERY interesting!!!!! Just shows you that the same hymn is sung differently in different regions of the country and sometime even the next county over. lol
I represent "oldfolks" children proudly!!! That's what I'm talking 'bout!!!Don't wait to pray like this when in trouble...My "people" pray for me and I'm glad to let ya know it still works!!!God is still God, and God SAVES!!! Thank YA! KEEP ME, LORD!!!Not my fault if don't get shout on!!
Thank you for sharing , Although u don't hear these hyms sung in most black churches today, it is their loss ... I sing them at home and I can feel the presense of the Lord and the Ancestors and it takes me all the way back to the Motherland! These songs and hymns are so rich and potent, it's like medicine to my soul. A million thanks for sharing.
Listen to the church, nothin sounds like that but the church. This is African American history in living, sound and color. When I was young I used to follow my Pastor down in Carolina when he did revivals (the late Rev. John Stewart) and as a teenager I knew this was special. I am over 40 now and still sounds the same. I can wait to get to heaven. I want to be in a the Prayer Band singing these songs of Zion. I have got to get the DVD
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful, spirit-fillied video.. this is what we are missing in our church today..its important that these "artist" today understand that it not all about jumping around to music that really dont mean a thing..we need to get back to the spirituals that our grandparent and great-grandparent sung (These songs brought them through)... this video has brought me to tears...once again thank you!
Thanks for the education on this type of music. The way churches sing "Common Meter Hymns" is based on the region they're from. I'm a musician - raised in NY. When my folk migrated back to NC, I went too. Fit right in with the crowd too (lol). But as I traveled across the south, I noticed the difference in those songs in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. With the migration to the north and the separation of families - this music links our people to those who know its tune.
This is what I call lining a hymn. I think every church should do this at least once a month, just to remind us, because if we don't pass it one, in 20 it will be a distant memory
This is whats done in the black church in the south since slavery, after a verse is sung someone suppose to stand up and testify but over the years the decons say a prayer between verses,
actually anyone can stand up and testify, sometimes they do.
@lovedbymany29 Also scholars are starting to recognize the vital importance this music plays in separating the believer from the hostile world preparing them for the filling of the Spirit a little later in the service and then sending them out reenergized to face another week in the cruel world. Heart and emoption is much more important here than head thinking.
@lovedbymany29 Thank You!! I have been doing a master's thesis on the varieties of Dr. Watts Hymn singing and have disvoered the incredible importance of this music in establishing and maintaining community and individual identity. The slow singing of the lyrics helps them to settle into the body in a very personal way while still recognizing the community connectedness because everyone participates at the same time as opposed to soloist or even choir style gospel.
I am from a small town in Mississippi and it is the same way there. I miss this so much. I miss the times when the whole congregation sang! This is true spirit filled! Glory to God!
Simply beautiful! I love this hymn and the way it is being presented in this video is absolutely the most wonderful way I have ever heard it. Thanks for posting!!!
This is beautiful & also touching...... Moved me spiritually plus connected me with my grandparents when they use to sing like this.... Lord take us back!!!!!!!! THANKS for this clip.... God bless you, Elder contrail Pate
@PreachPate Pete, a 105 year old mother of the church in Memphis once said "If you're gonna lead a Dr. Watts, just rar' back and do it!" The way it is being continued in Memphis is during the devotion period, one verse is lined out. There is always resistence in ignorance, teach the people how important this is. Great book to read is Walter F. Pitts' Old Ship of Zion.
I was raised in Florida and I have never heard hymn singing in this format in the African American Church. It is like singing the Dr. Watts style of hymn singing but has more of an African style. I love the Hymn Choirs of S.C.
I Just Love This..........Im 18 on the Deacon Board at my church and the Deacons lead in Dr. Watts' but they are not like these which are so moving to my spirit.........GOD BLESS!
The Black churches here in my city are so busy singing all that new mess that's so popular now until it has been a very long time since I've heard a decent hymn like this. Thank God for the people who continue to add such glorious songs like this to this site. Praise GOD!
I sing these types of hymns always before I preach...call & response type like they are doing here (by the way, call & response is directly from our African ancestry). I love these hymns...such a part of our heritage. (I'm in Georgia and this hymn is sung a little bit different, but not much...we actually sing it slower...along with the style and speed of "A Charge to Keep I have" - another old familiar hymn.)
This is the southern lined hymn. Often because of the history of music in the black church. There was a lot of music and lyrics but not many who could read either. So often lines and music was different from region to region. It's always interesting the differences that you can hear for what seems like one song. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few people with ears so well trained that they can can actually tell the difference between regions of the south someone is singing from.
I believe they called this the chant, normally done when a Deacon was praying or reading a scripture. I am sixty years old and have not seen this type of worship since I was about ten years old.
Thank you for posting this video. It is spiritually uplifting and help start my day
When I was a child this was considered dead musicals and was replaced with more a lot of European style harmonies. It was not until I got attended an Historically Black College that I learned to appreciate the music styles of our African and slaver heritage. Listen to the tight harmony and meters. Wow what a rich sound from the soul. Others have picked this up an claimed it as American Music in other parts the country.
what style of singing is this? we sing this song 2 differents ways, one style for devotion and a different way if it is sang as the "hymn of preparation" / "hymn of the hour" ... as they still say at my church...
but i have never heard it this way...i am baptist, raised in the south... (still being raised actually, i'm 16, lol)
can someone shed some light on the style of singing please?
what style of singing is this? i mean we sing this song 2 different ways, but i have never heard it like this...
i am of the baptist denomination and we sing this during devotion or as the "hymn of preparation / hymn of the hour" like the elders say ...and they are sang differently...
but have i ever heard it like this...this is a very interesting style
Sorry I'm just seeing your email. These are spirituals and hymns as has been done (since slavery days) in Piedmont area of North and South Carolina. It may be unfamilar because pre-gospel music has died out (replaced by gospel) in most (if not all) areas of the US. These folks (thank God) are simply wise enough to realize what they have is precious, irreplaceable and worthy to be passed down to new generations.
Although, believe it or not, there is significant resistance from modern pastors and gospel musicians hate this music (and way of life/worship) who want to eliminate this genre from existence (not all though). -KB
You can say that again, thats exactly whats happened at my church. Our new preacher (who is rather young and we happen to be his first church) has stopped the hymn choir form singing before he preaches We went from 4 songs a Sunday to 2. The gospel musicians sings form 4 to 6 songs every Sun. The pastor said the Hymn Choir doesn't "pump him up". Jesus didn't need the 12 disciples to be the greatness that he was and save a dieing world; but our pastor needs a gospel choir to deliver God's word.
People tend to be afraid of what they don't understand. I can see this coming back to our churches because of the times that we live in now. It's really a song of total dependence on God.
My college professor Dr, Mildred Green of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN as metered hymns. It comes from the African churches during the time of slavery in America
It has been a year since you ask what style of song is this? This blew me away, for it is VERY RARE. This is how the slaves sang their songs. They would "maon" almost every song. In other word, they felt each and every word. There was too much pain in their lives to just sing a song fast. This is why we, black folk, often say that we have to maon sometimes! THIS IS SIMPLY AWESOME; I ALMOST CRIED!!
This is a "Prayer Band" meeting from a union of bands that started perhaps 100 or so years ago. There used to be many unions and dozens of bands up and down the east coast. Rock Hill, Chester, Charlotte, Winnsboro, Winston Salem are in a union. Baltimore and DC(and perhaps Philly)are part of another union. This specific meeting joins both these unions, which happes 4 times per year. Each band has its own badge.
I LOVE IT!!!
JepMaster8 6 days ago
This is a magnificent hymn and the singing is indeed powerful!! Is this a variant of the "meter hymns" that are often attributed to the Primitive Baptists? Please advise at your convenience. Thank you.
tholley8215 1 month ago in playlist Before the Music Dies...
Now I have never heard this version of this hymn before. VERY interesting!!!!! Just shows you that the same hymn is sung differently in different regions of the country and sometime even the next county over. lol
anointed1choirmaster 1 month ago
YES, YES, YES!!!!! GLORYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
armybob50 1 month ago
MY GOD!!!!!!!
Gnyce1 1 month ago
I represent "oldfolks" children proudly!!! That's what I'm talking 'bout!!!Don't wait to pray like this when in trouble...My "people" pray for me and I'm glad to let ya know it still works!!!God is still God, and God SAVES!!! Thank YA! KEEP ME, LORD!!!Not my fault if don't get shout on!!
HolyRollerGeek 2 months ago
Im a youth minister an the church a preach at is like this Lord how mercy get chills listening to this
34mrfootball 2 months ago
Yes!!!!!!
rjohnsonn 2 months ago
I felt this! Lord have mercy!
mkdken 3 months ago
I just can not get enough of this it truly something special. Saints after god own heart keep on maginifying him this is powerful
36MrAntoine 3 months ago
Wow. Wow. Wow. I know this is caught more than taught but how can you learn this if you don't go to a church like this?
ElJibaroBravo 3 months ago
new heard it on this wise lol
cp19imsaved 4 months ago
LOVE IT. LOVE IT!!! NEVER HEARD IT DONE THIS WAY!!!!
casablancaruffin 5 months ago
This is powerful! I love it. We don't sing like this anymore. I've got to go home to Irmo, SC to get this kind of music. Thanks for sharing.
britdlake86 6 months ago
Thank you for sharing , Although u don't hear these hyms sung in most black churches today, it is their loss ... I sing them at home and I can feel the presense of the Lord and the Ancestors and it takes me all the way back to the Motherland! These songs and hymns are so rich and potent, it's like medicine to my soul. A million thanks for sharing.
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myrbl30 6 months ago
OH JESSU WE ARE SINGING THIS HYMN LIKE THIS ON SUNDAY MORNING....LORD JESUS....
bigFEW2 8 months ago in playlist Thank You Lord!
every phonetic syllable seems to last for four beats.......heartfelt thanx for this....
where is this please@hymchoir or @somebody anybody ⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠
ennisel 9 months ago
this is my all time favorite hymn!!!
ob2be 9 months ago
@ob2be Mines too!
epegues14 9 months ago
That right there just does something to you
MrGodfather81 10 months ago
GOOD LAWD!!!!!
bigtmill 10 months ago
Listen to the church, nothin sounds like that but the church. This is African American history in living, sound and color. When I was young I used to follow my Pastor down in Carolina when he did revivals (the late Rev. John Stewart) and as a teenager I knew this was special. I am over 40 now and still sounds the same. I can wait to get to heaven. I want to be in a the Prayer Band singing these songs of Zion. I have got to get the DVD
taylormaed 10 months ago
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful, spirit-fillied video.. this is what we are missing in our church today..its important that these "artist" today understand that it not all about jumping around to music that really dont mean a thing..we need to get back to the spirituals that our grandparent and great-grandparent sung (These songs brought them through)... this video has brought me to tears...once again thank you!
MrsAWReed1 1 year ago
thank you so much for posting this reminds me of going to church with my gran, (tennessee primitive baptist) God Bless!
dagoodnegress 1 year ago
love this!!!!......SC Baptist!!!
ehat2001 1 year ago
father i stretch my hands to thee yes sir i rember at the st paul comm miss baptist church in charlotte nc
donnyice 1 year ago
Thanks for the education on this type of music. The way churches sing "Common Meter Hymns" is based on the region they're from. I'm a musician - raised in NY. When my folk migrated back to NC, I went too. Fit right in with the crowd too (lol). But as I traveled across the south, I noticed the difference in those songs in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. With the migration to the north and the separation of families - this music links our people to those who know its tune.
Cooper1120 1 year ago
This reminds me of home in Alabama
tutiger1881 1 year ago
PRAISE THE LORD! I LOVE THIS!
KayKay37122 1 year ago
This is what I call lining a hymn. I think every church should do this at least once a month, just to remind us, because if we don't pass it one, in 20 it will be a distant memory
DrPhilmobetta 1 year ago
Wow this is so powerful!!!!! Beautiful music, I can actually feel the power behind this one when I listen to it.
Nunn2009 1 year ago
iREALLY miss this type of devotional service!
sethlove06 1 year ago
Are there more videos of this type of singing. I love it
Danmccarter 1 year ago
I wonder how many black churches still line out songs or sing Dr. Watts. Nothing moves the heart like this kind of singing.
kingjohntheman 1 year ago
This is whats done in the black church in the south since slavery, after a verse is sung someone suppose to stand up and testify but over the years the decons say a prayer between verses,
actually anyone can stand up and testify, sometimes they do.
jurnagin 1 year ago
@jurnagin OKAY NOW I GOT AN UNDERSTANDING
Natishaable 1 year ago
I love this. We sing this same hymn but not like this. Beautiful. The foot stomping adds to the great sound. What a spiritual sound.
cmwilla1011 1 year ago
@lovedbymany29 Also scholars are starting to recognize the vital importance this music plays in separating the believer from the hostile world preparing them for the filling of the Spirit a little later in the service and then sending them out reenergized to face another week in the cruel world. Heart and emoption is much more important here than head thinking.
MrFuzzyEars 1 year ago
@lovedbymany29 Thank You!! I have been doing a master's thesis on the varieties of Dr. Watts Hymn singing and have disvoered the incredible importance of this music in establishing and maintaining community and individual identity. The slow singing of the lyrics helps them to settle into the body in a very personal way while still recognizing the community connectedness because everyone participates at the same time as opposed to soloist or even choir style gospel.
MrFuzzyEars 1 year ago
@MrFuzzyEars I did a paper in my undergrad on something similar! Best of wishes and blessing on your work!!
DaSourcespr06 1 year ago
I am from a small town in Mississippi and it is the same way there. I miss this so much. I miss the times when the whole congregation sang! This is true spirit filled! Glory to God!
stormalley 1 year ago
AMEN!! I LOVE THIS!!!
Obadiah18 1 year ago
My gosh!!! This is the TRUE GOSPEL MUSIC! I love SPIRITUALS!!!!!!!!!!!!
analisandosuavoz 1 year ago
sounds like HOME! thank you jesus
kozone5000 1 year ago
Simply beautiful! I love this hymn and the way it is being presented in this video is absolutely the most wonderful way I have ever heard it. Thanks for posting!!!
welliewellie 1 year ago
I never heard his song sung like this but I do like it it's really different.
brendap1977 1 year ago
This is beautiful & also touching...... Moved me spiritually plus connected me with my grandparents when they use to sing like this.... Lord take us back!!!!!!!! THANKS for this clip.... God bless you, Elder contrail Pate
PreachPate 1 year ago
@PreachPate Pete, a 105 year old mother of the church in Memphis once said "If you're gonna lead a Dr. Watts, just rar' back and do it!" The way it is being continued in Memphis is during the devotion period, one verse is lined out. There is always resistence in ignorance, teach the people how important this is. Great book to read is Walter F. Pitts' Old Ship of Zion.
MrFuzzyEars 1 year ago
I keep coming back to this video.
Monk3597 1 year ago
It's different, but I'd rather hear this than all this contemporary mess they call gospel.
Monk3597 1 year ago
I love this!! I go to church not for from Chester, SC, and hymns are still sung like this today!! Amazing!! I even recognize some of the people!!
mswhite803 2 years ago
what church is this in chester
keke200406 2 years ago
We're losing the old school "CHUCH" (yes, without the r) way of worship and I miss it sooooo much!!
revshane777 2 years ago
@revshane777 I agree. Some things shouldn't change. This is how my grandmother sung it, and this is how i prefer to hear it.
lpackgrays7781 1 year ago
Sometimes you have to just take it back to the basics.
lpackgrays7781 2 years ago
praise god. when you praise him, he inhabits your praise. thank you for posting this. xo
xoxotoe 2 years ago
Lawd this is sooooo beautiful. My soul says yes.
PatsBooks 2 years ago
I was raised in Florida and I have never heard hymn singing in this format in the African American Church. It is like singing the Dr. Watts style of hymn singing but has more of an African style. I love the Hymn Choirs of S.C.
CRAIGEable 2 years ago
I Just Love This..........Im 18 on the Deacon Board at my church and the Deacons lead in Dr. Watts' but they are not like these which are so moving to my spirit.........GOD BLESS!
Dymetrice1 2 years ago
I love hymns sung in black churches....Their uplifting.
hiram7474 2 years ago
The Black churches here in my city are so busy singing all that new mess that's so popular now until it has been a very long time since I've heard a decent hymn like this. Thank God for the people who continue to add such glorious songs like this to this site. Praise GOD!
MsJaxxee 2 years ago
What is Annual Day??
ricemack4 2 years ago
There is a soprano on the "I stretch my hands" part who is SANGING!!
DaSourcespr06 2 years ago
If this doesnt get you to where you need to be, nothing will..God is alive in this sound, you can literally feel him!
DaSourcespr06 2 years ago
Nothing, like NOTHING, stirs my soul like these ole time songs... Never let this traditon disappear!!!
kphilj 2 years ago
STOMP,STOMP,STOMP,STOMP *REPEAT* ....LOLOL I LOVE IT that bald guy in the camrea lolol
Destry3 2 years ago
I sing these types of hymns always before I preach...call & response type like they are doing here (by the way, call & response is directly from our African ancestry). I love these hymns...such a part of our heritage. (I'm in Georgia and this hymn is sung a little bit different, but not much...we actually sing it slower...along with the style and speed of "A Charge to Keep I have" - another old familiar hymn.)
ministerzel 2 years ago
This is the southern lined hymn. Often because of the history of music in the black church. There was a lot of music and lyrics but not many who could read either. So often lines and music was different from region to region. It's always interesting the differences that you can hear for what seems like one song. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few people with ears so well trained that they can can actually tell the difference between regions of the south someone is singing from.
Midraj 2 years ago
I believe they called this the chant, normally done when a Deacon was praying or reading a scripture. I am sixty years old and have not seen this type of worship since I was about ten years old.
Thank you for posting this video. It is spiritually uplifting and help start my day
birchsplitter 2 years ago
When I was a child this was considered dead musicals and was replaced with more a lot of European style harmonies. It was not until I got attended an Historically Black College that I learned to appreciate the music styles of our African and slaver heritage. Listen to the tight harmony and meters. Wow what a rich sound from the soul. Others have picked this up an claimed it as American Music in other parts the country.
GRE1400 2 years ago
I enjoy your hymns keep posting these for us
TLT5050 2 years ago
wow i have not heard a hymn lined in a hot min... then its long meter... wow great job
2young7 2 years ago
HELLO,
what style of singing is this? we sing this song 2 differents ways, one style for devotion and a different way if it is sang as the "hymn of preparation" / "hymn of the hour" ... as they still say at my church...
but i have never heard it this way...i am baptist, raised in the south... (still being raised actually, i'm 16, lol)
can someone shed some light on the style of singing please?
THANK U!
baybjr 2 years ago
HELLO,
what style of singing is this? i mean we sing this song 2 different ways, but i have never heard it like this...
i am of the baptist denomination and we sing this during devotion or as the "hymn of preparation / hymn of the hour" like the elders say ...and they are sang differently...
but have i ever heard it like this...this is a very interesting style
will someone shed some light?
THANKS!
baybjr 2 years ago
Sorry I'm just seeing your email. These are spirituals and hymns as has been done (since slavery days) in Piedmont area of North and South Carolina. It may be unfamilar because pre-gospel music has died out (replaced by gospel) in most (if not all) areas of the US. These folks (thank God) are simply wise enough to realize what they have is precious, irreplaceable and worthy to be passed down to new generations.
Hymnchoir 2 years ago
thank you!
baybjr 2 years ago
Although, believe it or not, there is significant resistance from modern pastors and gospel musicians hate this music (and way of life/worship) who want to eliminate this genre from existence (not all though). -KB
Hymnchoir 2 years ago
You can say that again, thats exactly whats happened at my church. Our new preacher (who is rather young and we happen to be his first church) has stopped the hymn choir form singing before he preaches We went from 4 songs a Sunday to 2. The gospel musicians sings form 4 to 6 songs every Sun. The pastor said the Hymn Choir doesn't "pump him up". Jesus didn't need the 12 disciples to be the greatness that he was and save a dieing world; but our pastor needs a gospel choir to deliver God's word.
criggzz 2 years ago
People tend to be afraid of what they don't understand. I can see this coming back to our churches because of the times that we live in now. It's really a song of total dependence on God.
GRE1400 2 years ago
My college professor Dr, Mildred Green of LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN as metered hymns. It comes from the African churches during the time of slavery in America
GRE1400 2 years ago
@baybjr
It has been a year since you ask what style of song is this? This blew me away, for it is VERY RARE. This is how the slaves sang their songs. They would "maon" almost every song. In other word, they felt each and every word. There was too much pain in their lives to just sing a song fast. This is why we, black folk, often say that we have to maon sometimes! THIS IS SIMPLY AWESOME; I ALMOST CRIED!!
mrbilingual 1 year ago
Before I moved to charlotte 2yr ago, I didn't even know hymn choirs existed, but I love to hear them sing now....
wycal 2 years ago
where in charlotte? I live in charlotte and would love to attend a church that still does this.
cnell0621 2 years ago
That's easy! - Mt Vernon Baptist Church on Oneida (off Graham). ...or Antioch. There are others. Let me know what you find.
Hymnchoir 2 years ago
cnell0621, Greater Galilee on West Park Ave. has an awesome hymn choir, fyi!
qctwin 2 years ago
Wow. This is rich tradition. Who would of thought our black churches still do this. This is true worship & reverence. Saints u betta praise HIM!!!
schs19947 3 years ago
I love it...It reminds me of my grandmother....I just can imagine slaves singing in the cotton feilds...moving!
lpackgrays7781 3 years ago
amen
cnell0621 3 years ago
can we have devotion!!! love it!!
bigbuck75 3 years ago
There is one in Winston Salem, "East Winston Prayer Band" A truly annointed group.
crzypocket1 3 years ago
i have to look at this video everyday. This brings back so many memories of my childhood with grandma
vilseck524 3 years ago
@vilseck524 Exactly. This takes me to a place I have never been before. I can just see the slaves in the feild. Hearing this is moving to me.
lpackgrays7781 1 year ago
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Missbo99 3 years ago
Is this an Ushers' Anniversary?
I noticed all of the people wearing usher tags on the right side of the church...
TheElder79 3 years ago
This is a "Prayer Band" meeting from a union of bands that started perhaps 100 or so years ago. There used to be many unions and dozens of bands up and down the east coast. Rock Hill, Chester, Charlotte, Winnsboro, Winston Salem are in a union. Baltimore and DC(and perhaps Philly)are part of another union. This specific meeting joins both these unions, which happes 4 times per year. Each band has its own badge.
Hymnchoir 3 years ago
wow!!!!!!!!this is real down home
vilseck524 3 years ago