The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

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John Hammond's Spirituals To Swing


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Jazz
Catalogue NumberAL 30777 / 7 tracks on sides 2-3
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Columbia Records
Record Format33 1/3 RPM - 12"
Shelf Number001588
Number of Tracks19
Date Recorded1972
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Introduction by Goddard Lieberson
Composer(s) : N/A
2 - Introduction By Goddard Lieberson And John Hammond
Composer(s) : N/A
3 - The Shadow Of Your Smile
Composer(s) : P. Francis Webster - J. Mandel
4 - The Cooker
Composer(s) : G. Benson
5 - Didn't It Rain
Composer(s) : N/A
6 - Roll 'Em Pete
Composer(s) : P. Johnson - J. Turner
7 - How I Got Over
Composer(s) : C. Ward
8 - Inroduction by Goddard Lieberson
Composer(s) : N/A
9 - Swingin' The Blues
Composer(s) : C. Basie - E. Furham - J. Hendricks
10 - I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind
Composer(s) : J. Turner
11 - The Thing
Composer(s) : J. Handy
12 - Backdoor Blues
Composer(s) : E. Vincent
13 - Sweet Little Angel
Composer(s) : R. McCollum
14 - Hound Dog
Composer(s) : J. Leiber - M. Stoller
15 - Squeeze Me
Composer(s) : C. Williams
16 - Boone's Blues
Composer(s) : R. Boone
17 - Jumping At The Woodside
Composer(s) : C. Basie - J. Hendricks
18 - Blues For John
Composer(s) : N/A