Roland Hayes "Were You There"

From his Life Of Christ series of spirituals. Song arranged and sung by Roland Hayes.

This is the introduction to the song in his book 'My Favorite Spirituals'. "The Aframerican poets and musicians set Christ's death on the Cross apart from that of all others in that only through His death did all mankind fall heir to salvation and life eternal.
But, often, man in the midst of his tranquillity and enjoyment of promised redemption through Christ forgets that he, an heir to life eternal, has definite duties to perform thereto before he can claim the promised reward.
Are we then, as human beings, keeping ourselves in a constant state of awareness in the sense of, for instance, a daily exercise and practice of "being our brothers' keeper"? Here, as the next song of this collection envisions, we of all races and of every creed are brought together in one embrace of the all-important question; not so much, however, "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" but -- in the sense of the responsibilites which this death places upon us to love and serve God and one another -- Are you there? "SOMETIMES IT CAUSES ME TO TREMBLE!"

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• classical
• religious
• spiritual
• Roland
• Hayes

[SENAFOREVER]

So inspiring.

From all my heart I thank you.

[Amiduffer]

You're welcome.

[LouisLeeKH]

This is Roland Hayes' later recording. He had a 1939 recording which sang even better than this one.

[Amiduffer]

Ah, where did you find such a rare copy?

[SENAFOREVER]

Where may I find recordings by Roland Hayes?

[Amiduffer]

You have to search a little. Amazon has a few, Ebay sometimes, websites that specialize in spirituals, and a small number of record/CD stores. Happy hunting!

[seti27748]

Anybody out there familiar with the passage of John 14:6?

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father , but by me."

Jesus wasn't be arrogant, He came to teach and lead us into the way of relationship with the loving and sovereign Lord.

[bigblueowx]

@seti27748 and also with our fellow man.

[theflarpus]

Beautiful... 

[37doctere]

Intens,this man believes in what he sings and his singing is ....!Yes,divine.

[erial80]

Deeply, deeply moving... Erial80

[LouisLeeKH]

From the CD "Brother Can You Spare a Dime".

Pearl CD # GEMM CD 9484.

You may buy it in Amazon