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He played bottleneck slide guitar in open D tuning on the recording. If so, you'll need to disable it when using this site, as it spams the websites you visit with fake requests. When the Voyager 1 probe was launched on September 5 1977, a gold-plated 12-inch phonograph disc was attached to it, encoded with messages from humanity, greetings in 55 languages, animal calls, tribal songs and music, as well as encrypted photographs, for the benefit of any civilisations that might eventually encounter the craft. [19], In 1977, Carl Sagan and other researchers collected sounds and images from planet Earth to send on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. It's very possible the song is in the public domain but the specific recording you want is not. Subject: Lyr Add: DARK WAS THE NIGHT (Thomas Haweis) From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Apr 09 - 02:01 AM There's a YouTube video of Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground. "Father, remove this bitter cup, The song was picked by Sagan, who said it concerns a situation Johnson and humanity faced many times: Nightfall with no place to sleep. Johnson recorded 30 songs for them at five sessions between 1927 and 1930. on the Internet. A day in the lives of residents of a small Southern town as they come face to face with the hidden HIV epidemic in their community. The lead singer and pianist for Procol Harum, Gary talks about finding the musical ideas to match the words. and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, on February 24, 2010. Awake to watch and pray. Recorded in 1927, the instrumental Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground is unlike any of his other songs and unlike any other song on this earth. Umpteen singers and bands have recorded his John the Revelator. The song is primarily an instrumental featuring Johnson's self-taught bottleneck slide guitar and picking style accompanied by his vocalizations of humming and moaning. Dark Was the Night (2018 film), an American drama film "Dark Was the Night" ( Grey's Anatomy), a 2011 episode of Grey's Anatomy See also "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", a 1927 song by Blind Willie Johnson This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dark Was the Night. This song still resonates with me to this day. PJp@#911 [SN@`Pe9fYLR|mNcdPbb$k8>? There are no reviews yet. 110 0 obj
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Among the first of these was "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground". [13] Francis Davis, author of The History of the Blues concurs, writing "In terms of its intensity aloneits spiritual achethere is nothing else from the period to compare to Johnson's 'Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground', on which his guitar takes the part of a preacher and his wordless voice the part of a rapt congregation. Make sure your selection
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Dark was the night, and cold the ground On which the Lord was laid; His sweat like drops of blood ran down; In agony he prayed. After flying past Jupiter and Saturn, in 2012 it became the first man-made object to reach interstellar space (although according to some scientists it is still in the solar system, as it has yet to pass through the Oort Cloud, which will take another 14,000-28,000 years).