Summary of Albums

Category   Album Names Number of Tunes Year
Totals   268 6,098  
A   "Art of Field Recording", Dust to Digital DTD-12 , www.dust-digital.com 1 1922 or later
A Category C for some tunes "Art of Field Recording", Dust to Digital DTD-07 , www.dust-digital.com 5 1922 or later
A   "Judge Jackson and The Colored Sacred Harp" Companion CD 25 1938
A   "Sacred Harp Singing", 1942 Alabama Singing Convention, Audio tape AFS-L11, CD Rounder 1503 19 1942
A   Joe Beasley Memorial Sacred Harp Album 54 1954
A   "And Glory Shone Around" United Convention Rounder 1710 25 1959
A   "Brethren, We Meet Again" United Convention Rounder 1704 3 1959
A   "Harp Of 1,000 Strings" United Convention Rounder 1709 23 1959
A   "White Spirituals From The Sacred Harp" United Convention New World 80205 20 1959
A   Southern Harmony Companion CD 29 1966
A   Lookout Mountain Convention 1968 38 1968
A   "Fasola 53 Shape-Note Folk Hymns", Folkways F-4151 52 1969
A   New Year's Eve at the Iveys' 1972 25 1972
A   "Christian Harmony" (Companion to Foxfire Magazine Article) 13 1977
A   Sand Mountain Sacred Harp Vol. 1 16 1978
A   "Wiregrass Notes Revised" Black Sacred Harp Singing 27 1980
A   "Wiregrass Notes" Black Sacred Harp Singing 14 1980
A   "Highlights From Madison's First Annual Singing" 33 1987
A   "Help Me To Sing" 3rd Midwest Convention 69 1988
A   "Let Our Songs Abound" Sacred Harp Singing In The Midwest 39 1988
A   1988 Missouri State Convention 22 1988
A   "Can I Leave You" 4th Midwest Convention 32 1989
A   "Make Heaven's Portals Ring" Cherry Tree Singing 54 1989
A   First New York State Convention 26 1989
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1990 38 1990
A   "Bound For Canaan" Sand Mountain Alabama 39 1990
A   "Return Again" 5th Midwest Convention 36 1990
A   "Sacred Harp In The Rockies" 20 1990
A   "Sounding Joy" 87th United Convention 32 1990
A   1990 Missouri State Convention 20 1990
A   Second New York State Convention 40 1990
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1991 40 1991
A   Alabama State Convention 1991-1993 33 1991
A   Third New York State Convention 37 1991
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1992 41 1992
A   "O May My Heart In Tune Be Found" Potomac River Convention 40 1992
A   Fourth New York State Convention 26 1992
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1993 38 1993
A   "Desire For Piety" Wiregrass Singers New World 80519 19 1993
A   "Meeting In The Air" J.C. Campbell Folk School 6 1993
A   "The Colored Sacred Harp" New World 80433 14 1993
A   First Ohio State Convention 34 1993
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1994 37 1994
A   "Old Songs Festival" 20 1994
A   Christian Harmony at Dutch Cove, NC 19 1994
A   Saint Francis Singing 32 1994
A   Sixth New York State Convention 31 1994
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1995 31 1995
A   "Showers Of Blessings" Garden State Convention 36 1995
A Category B for some tunes "Traditional Music From Alabama's Wiregrass 4 1995
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1996 36 1996
A   1996 Hoboken All-Day Singing 24 1996
A   First Annual UK Shape-Note Convention 35 1996
A   Rocky Mountain High Convention 148 1996
A   Shapers Singing Day 22 1996
A   "Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 1997 37 1997
A   Mt. Olive Primitive Baptist Church, Morton, MS 43 1997
A   The Second Annual UK Shape-Note Convention 34 1997
A   "Fasola Omaha" First Nebraska All Day Singing 26 1998
A   "Glory In My Soul" 1998 Missouri Convention 39 1998
A   "Present Joys/Blessings Past" -Potomac River Convention 52 1998
A   1998 Mississippi Cooper Book Convention 38 1998
A   Pine Ridge Dunkard Brethren Church- Mt. Olive, MS 1998 23 1998
A   "Found Rest" Tri State (GAF) Convention 56 1999
A   "In Sweetest Union Join" 96th United Convention, Henagar, AL 62 1999
A   100th Alabama Sacred Harp Musical Convention One-CD Version 31 1999
A   100th Alabama Sacred Harp Musical Convention Two-CD Set 63 1999
A   1999 Minnesota State Singing Convention 32 1999
A   1999 Mississippi Cooper Book Convention 19 1999
A   Big Creek, Sacred Harp In Georgia (CD) 19 1999
A   Big Creek, Sacred Harp In Georgia (Tape) 20 1999
A   Christian Harmony at Brasstown, NC 24 1999
A   Holly Springs, Sacred Harp In Georgia (CD) 24 1999
A   Holly Springs, Sacred Harp In Georgia (Tape) 20 1999
A   Mt. Pisgah Singing Society-Stroud, Alabama 1999 36 1999
A   Newton County (MS) Christian Harmony Convention 27 1999
A   Pine Ridge Dunkard Brethren Church- Mt. Olive, MS 1999 33 1999
A   The UK Sacred Harp Convention 1999 WTS 0037 24 1999
A   The Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention 1999 27 1999
A   "Blest Be The Tie That Binds" Minnesota Cooper Book Convention 24 2000
A   "Come Ye to the Waters" Songs from the Christian Harmony 33 2000
A   "He Restoreth My Soul" Florida State Sacred Harp Convention (Cooper Book) 26 2000
A   "Mother Tell Me of the Angels" J.C. Campbell Folk School 22 2000
A   "Peace Like A River" - 2000 Minnesota State Singing Convention 62 2000
A   "We Are A Garden Walled Around" Christian Harmony, Rutherfordton, NC 19 2000
A   100th Anniversary Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention 50 2000
A   Christian Harmony at Brevard, NC 32 2000
A   Christian Harmony informal singing Asheville, NC 23 2000
A   Fifth Annual UK Sacred Harp Convention 33 2000
A   Oxford City Hall, Oxford, MS- 3/12/00, 1991 Sacred Harp Revision 41 2000
A   Sacred Harp Singing in Western Massachusetts 2000-2001 30 2000
A   "Gems From The Mountains" (Songs From the Christian Harmonies) 19 2001
A   "Never Part Again" New Harp of Columbia at Headrick Chapel 45 2001
A   "Pinions of a Dove" Webster, NC Christian Harmony 17 2001
A   "The Sound of the Dulcimer Sweet", Christian Harmony at John Campbell Folk School July 2001 18 2001
A   "Thy Will Be Done" (Songs From the Eclectic Harmonies) 22 2001
A   Mt. Pisgah Singing Society-Stroud, Alabama 2001 29 2001
A   Nan Herring Singing, Furman University, May 2001 14 2001
A   "The Mercy Seat" Dedicated to Dr. Julietta Haynes, The Eighth Joe Beasley Memorial Singing 30 2002
A   2002 Hoboken All-Day Singing 25 2002
A   38th annual Epworth Jubilee singing from the New Harp of Columbia 24 2002
A   Chattachoochee Sacred Harp Singing Convention 150th Anniversary - Day One 50 2002
A   Chattachoochee Sacred Harp Singing Convention 150th Anniversary - Day Two 64 2002
A   National Sacred Harp Convention 23rd Session 32 2002
A   "One Hundred Twentieth Big Singing" (Southern Harmony In Benton, KY) 37 2003
A   "Awake my Soul" CD from Soundtrack 24 2004
A   "East Texas Legacy" East Texas Sacred Harp Convention, Henderson, TX 37 2004
A   "Sacred Harp", 2004 Minnesota State Convention 22 2004
A   "With Songs and Honors Sounding Loud" Ohio Sacred Harp Singing Convention 57 2004
A   September 11th, 2004 Memorial Sing, available at lowdowngriggs@erols.com 14 2004
A   "A Glimpse of Heavenly Day": Jeremiah Ingalls' "The Christian Harmony" (1805) 29 2005
A   "Connexion": All-Day Singing from "The Sacred Harp 1991" 32 2005
A   "Lovely Vine": Jeremiah Ingalls' "The Christian Harmony" (1805) 35 2005
A   "Nearer Home", Singing from the J. L. White Edition of the Sacred Harp 30 2005
A   "Shape Notes With Tim Eriksen", Newport Folk Festival 8 2005
A   "Weep Not For Me" An Old Harp [New Harp of Columbia] Memorial for Larry Olszewski 27 2005
A   Christian Harmony at Saint John's, Rutherfordton, NC 21 2005
A   Ingalls Bicentennial Singing 28 2005
A   "A Gracious Rain", Jerimiah Ingalls Singing in Newburry, VT 31 2006
A   "Joyfully Onward I Move", Harmonia Sacra Singing From Elkhart, Indiana 23 2006
A   Christian Harmony Old Saint John's Singing 25 2007
A   "Loud Let His Praises Ring" Ohio Convention, fentonsm@muohio.edu 65 2008
A   89th Alabama Christian Harmony Convention, Saturday Session 75 2008
A   89th Alabama Christian Harmony Convention, Sunday Session 78 2008
B Category A for some tunes "I Belong to This Band", Dust to Digital DTD-06, www.dust-digital.com 30 1922
B   "Where Will You be Christmas Day", Dust to Digital DTD-02 , www.dust-digital.com 1 1922 or later
B   "Heaven's My Home", Allison's Sacred Harp Singers, County 3531 21 1927
B   "Oh My Little Darling:", New World 80245-2 1 1927
B   "Religion is a Fortune", Sacred Harp Singing, County 3532 19 1927
B   "Anthology of American Folkmusic", Smithsonian Folkways SWF 40090 2 1928
B   "Before The Blues" Vol. 1 Yazoo 2015 1 1928
B   "How Can I Keep From Singing" Vol 1 Yazoo 2020 2 1928
B   "I'm On My Journey Home:", New World 80223-2 1 1928
B   "Old Ship Sailing For The Promised Land", Musical Traditions 102 1 1928
B   "Roots N' Blues" Columbia 47911 2 1928
B   "The Half Ain't Never Been Told" Vol. 2 Yazoo 2050 1 1928
B   "The Half Ain't Never Been Told" Vol. I Yazoo 2049 2 1928
B   "Times Ain't What They Used To Be" Vol 3 Yazoo 2047 1 1928
B   "Goodbye, Babylon", Dust to Digital DTD-02, www.dust-digital.com 7 1928 or later
B Category A for some tunes "In The Spirit" Companion Recording 5 1938
B   "How Can I Keep From Singing" Vol. 2, Yazoo 2021 1 1940
B   "The Ladykillers" Soundtrack Columbia CK 90896 1 1940
B   "Old Harp Singing" Folkways FA 2356 10 1951
B   The Sacred Harp Hour: The WCPC Sessions 28 1962
B   "Eternal Day" East Central Alabama Sacred Harp Singers 26 1965
B   "Original Sacred Harp" (1965) & "Fa Sol La Music" (1966) 28 1965
B   Sacred Harp Singing At The Old Country Church & Sacred Harp Singing With Dinner On The Grounds 31 1968
B   "Fasola Is Here To Stay"(1973) &"Bicentennial Celebration"(1975) 29 1973
B   "Soar Away" Selected Singers 16 1975
B   "Holy Manna" Southern Harmony Singers 17 1976
B   "The Social Harp" Rounder 0094 20 1977
B   "Harp Of Heritage" (Musical Heritage Society Cassette) 17 1978
B   "Rivers of Delight", Word Of Mouth Chorus Nonesuch 71360 21 1978
B Category W for some tunes "The Best of Nowell Sing We Clear" GHM 202 2 1979-1985
B   Music From the Sacred Harp by the Wootten Family of Sand Mountain, Alabama 24 1982
B   "Heritage" Pratie Heads (Jane Peppler & Bob Vasile) 2 1984
B   "How Sweet The Minutes" Judy Hauff 42 1985
B   "Pleasure Tunes My Tongue" 17 1988
B   Bayley-Hazen Singers "Honor To The Hills" 16 1988
B Category V for some tunes "Nowell Sing We Four" GHM 201 2 1988
B   Bayley-Hazen et al "Northern Harmony" 19 1989
B   Judy Hauff "Angels On The Wing" 29 1989
B   Norumbega Harmony "Sing And Joyful Be" 24 1989
B   "A Grand Musical Entertainment" Sound Reconstructions 000 2 1990
B   "Brightest And Best" Sound Reconstructions 002 12 1991
B   "Vermont Harmony 1991" Northern Harmony 16 1991
B   "Emerald Stream" Village Harmony & Bayley Hazen Singers 23 1992
B   "Original Sacred Harp" Cross Ties Band (was "The Universal Pickers" on OOP cassette) 17 1992
B   "Singing In A Strange Land" Sound Reconstructions JSH 001 8 1993
B   Northampton Harmony "Never Turn Back" 20 1993
B   "Heavenly Meeting" Northern Harmony 20 1994
B   "Songs From The Missouri Harmony" 21 1994
B   "Brightest And Best" Sound Reconstructions 004 12 1995
B   "The Better Land" Elastic Millennium Choir EAP 003 23 1995
B   "The Wootten Cousins" 31 1995
B   (Northampton Harmony + Tony Trischka) Rounder 0354 2 1995
B   Northampton Harmony "The Hookes' Regular Sing" 20 1995
B   "Endless Light" Village Harmony 21 1996
B   "An Old Canadian Christmas" Elastic Millennium Choir 18 1997
B Category W for some tunes "Just Say Nowell", Nowell Sing We Clear GHM 102 4 2000
B   "Ten Thousand Charms", The Applalachian Associations of Sacred Harp Singers 26 2001
B   "Amazing Grace", Concord Primitive Baptist Church, Winfield, AL 31 2002
B   "Cold Mountain" Soundtrack Album Columbia 86843 2 2003
B   "Saints Bound For Heaven" The Santa Cruz Shape Note Society 33 2003
B   Mule Day Singing at The Pastime Theatre, Winfield, AL 36 2004
B   "Sweet Seraphic Fire" (from "The Norumbega Harmony") New World 80640 35 2005
B   Mule Day Singing at The Pastime Theatre, Winfield, AL 37 2005
B   The Owen Family "A Heritage of Singing" 42 2006
B   Mule Day Singing at The Pastime Theatre, Winfield, AL 37 2007
C   "The New England Harmonyl" Old Sturbridge Singers Folkways FS 32377 26 1964
C   "Music of the American Revolution", Continental Harmony Singers, New World 80276-2 4 1976
C   "Make a Joyful Noise", Oregon State University Choir New World 80255-2 17 1978
C   "An Early American Quilt", Maggie's Music MM235 1 1985
C   "In a Cold Winter's Night", His Majestie's Clerkes Centaur CRC 2048 4 1988
C   "A Vermont Sampler" VPAL 103 1 1990
C   "A Vermont Sampler" VPAL 107 1 1990
C   The Boston Camerata "New Britain" Erato 2292-45474 7 1990
C   "A Land of Pure Delight", His Majestie's Clerkes Harmonia Mundi HMU 907048 16 1991
C   The Boston Camerata "The American Vocalist" Erato 2292-45818 23 1991
C   Boston Camerata "Trav'Ling Home" Erato 0630-12711 23 1992
C   The Boston Camerata "American Christmas" Erato 4509-92874 20 1993
C   "Goostly Psalms", His Majestie's Clerkes Harmonia Mundi HMU 9071281 19 1994
C   "Seasons For Singing", Revels 1095 1 1994
C   "The Shapenote Album" The Tudor Choir, Loft LRCD 1042 25 1996
C   William Billings- Wm. Appling Singers, New World 80539 15 1996
C   Boston Camerata "Liberty Tree" Erato 3984-21668-2 10 1997
C   Diller (Banjo), Northampton Harmony, Cordelia's Dad 3 1998
C   "An American Christmas", The Tudor Choir, Loft LRCD 1060 23 2002
C   "Billings Alive" http://www.lakewoodchurch.org/billingsalive/billings.html#listentoCD 18 2003
D   (Ms.) Texas Gladden, "Southern Journey" Rounder 1702 1 1959
D   Almeda Riddle In "Ozark Frontiers" Rounder 1707 1 1959
D   Doc Watson Smithsonian Folkways SF 40029/30 1 1961
D   Doc Watson Vangard VCD 77001 1 1964
D   Swingle Singers "American Look", Philips 0602498305553 1 1969
D   Addie Graham June Appal 0020D (CD includes 17 secular songs) 13 1978
D   Lorraine Duisit "Collected Hymns" 2 1991
D   "An American Idyll" Daniel Mccabe Fleur De Son 57924 2 1996
D   Boston Camerata "Angels" Erato 14773 6 1996
D Category C for some tunes "American Angels", Anonymous 4 - Harmonia Mundi HMU 907326 20 2004
D Category C for some tunes "Gloryland", Anonymous 4 - Harmonia Mundi HMU 907400 15 2005
D   "Help Me to Sing" (with"Awake My Soul" Soundtrack) CD 20 2007
V   Traditional Carols From Padstow Cornwall Veteran 117 11 1981
V   "English Village Carols" Smithsonian Folkways 40476 22 1987
V   Village Carols From Hathersage VC 005 1 1987
V   Village Carols From The Black Bull, Ecclesfield VC 001 21 1987
V   Village Carols From The Blue Ball Inn, Worrall VC 002 23 1989
V   Village Carols From The Fountain, Ingbirchworth VC 003 19 1989
V   Village Carols From Casleton VC 004 17 1991
V   Village Carols From Hathersage VC 005 20 1992
V   Village Carols From Travellers Rest, Oughtibridge VC 006 21 1993
V   A Festival Of Village Carols VCF 101 18 1994
V   Village Carols From Foolow VC 007 24 1994
V   Village Carols From Coal Aston VC 008 16 1995
V   A Festival Of Village Carols VCF 102 18 1996
V   Christmas With The Worrall Male Voice Choir 9 1996
V   Village Carols From The Royal Hotel, Dungworth VC 009 20 1996
V   "Voices of Christmas", The Glen Rock [Pennsylvania] Carolers 10 1997
V   Village Carols From Beeston, Nottinghamshire VC 010 24 1997
V Category W for some tunes "Fire and Sleet and Candellight", Coope Boyes & Simpson, Fraser, Freya, & Boyes No Masters CD21 6 2003
V   "Voices at the Door", Coope Boyes & Simpson, Fraser, Freya, & Boyes No Masters CD25 17 2006
W   Mellstock Band And Choir "Under The Greenwood Tree", Saydisc 360 9 1986
W   "All Hayle To The Days" Harper's Hamper United 88003 4 1993
W   "Arise, Arise!", Mellstock Band & Bayley-Hazen Singers Serpent 003 11 1993
W   "A Celtic Christmas", Dave Townsend, Musical Heritage 514297A, Saydisc CD417 2 1995
W   The Larks Of Dean Quire 17 1995
W Category V for some tunes "Hail Smiling Morn", Nowell Sing We Clear GHM 102 6 1995
W   "Tenants Of The Earth" The Mellstock Band WGS 281 6 1996
W   "Vital Spark"- Vital Spark CECD 001 20 1996
W   "While Shepherds Watched" Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments Hyperion CDA 6924 13 1996
W   William Knapp: West Gallery Anthems & Psalms XMS 001 18 1996
W   "Brighton Festival" Sussex Harmony 20 1997
W   "Vital Spark" Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments, Hyperion CDA 7020 15 1997
W   "West Gallery Favourites" West Gallery Music Association 23 1997
W   "A Garland of Carols", Coope Boyes & Simpson, No Masters CD13 4 1998
W   "Repeat Their Sounding Joy" The Gladly Solemn Sound 19 1998
W   "Westcountry Christmas", The Stanchester Quire & Singers 17 1998
W Category C for some tunes Paul Hillier et al, IODA 3957233 4 1998
W   "The Promised Land", Manx Heritage Foundation MHF CD3 14 2000
W   "There Were Shepherds", Vital Spark, Malvern Sparks 002 19 2001
W   "Let The Echo Fly", The Christminster Singers, XMS 002 20 2002
W   "Nativity" Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments Hyperion CDA 67443 16 2003
W   "Wolcum Yule", Anonymous 4 - Harmonia Mundi HMU 907325 1 2003
W   "Glad Tidings" The Mellstock Band, Musical Hertiage Society 5188103 (USA), Serpent Press (UK) 13 2004
W   "Hark, Shepherds, Hark" The Madding Crowd 22 2004
W   Round the Year with the [Purbeck ] Village Quire 19 2004
W   "Awake Ye Mortals All" The Gladly Solemn Sound 19 2005
W   "Christmas in Purbeck" The Purbeck Village Quire 19 2007
W   "Praise Ye the Lord" London Gallery Quire 20 2007

Last Updated on 11/27/2009
By Berkley L Moore