A Life of Song, by Ella Jenkins

A Life of Song

by Ella Jenkins

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1.	Pick a Bale of Cotton 04:20	buy track
2.	One Two Three O’Leary 01:17	buy track
3.	Calling a Square Dance 00:42	buy track
4.	Black Royalty 01:47	buy track
5.	Little Sally Walker 01:15	buy track
6.	Cotton-Eyed Joe 01:21	buy track
7.	I Want to Be Ready 01:39	buy track
8.	He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands 01:48	buy track
9.	Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 01:38	buy track
10.	Rock My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham 01:18	buy track
11.	Standing in the Need of Prayer 01:08	buy track
12.	Amazing Grace 03:26	buy track
13.	Somebody’s Talking About Freedom 01:51	buy track
14.	Sadie Complete 02:16	buy track
15.	Uncle Flood and the Blues 02:07	buy track
16.	Milk Cow Blues 00:47	buy track
17.	Summertime 02:23	buy track
18.	The Cuckoo 02:05	buy track
19.	The Farmer in the Dell 01:18	buy track
20.	This is Your Year, Children 01:00	buy track
21.	I’m On My Way to Canaan Land 01:35	buy track

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In A Life of Song, Ella Jenkins, “The First Lady of Children’s Music,” offers stories and songs that speak to her youthful years as an African American child in a multi-cultural world. Her career of more than a half century earned her the first Lifetime Achievement Grammy award for a children’s music artist, and her more than thirty recordings teach us to learn from one another while taking pride in our own heritage. This African American Legacy recording of Ella singing with children from the Cool Classics after-school program spotlights her own heritage while showing her delight for the traditions of others. 36 minutes, lyrics, photos, 28-page booklet.

This recording is the sixth release in the Smithsonian Folkways African American Legacy Series, co-presented with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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released February 22, 2011

Produced by Bernadelle Richter
Annotated by Patricia Shehan Campbell,
Lonnie Bunch, and Ella Jenkins
Cover photo by Karen Hoyt; inside front and back
cover photos courtesy of Ella Jenkins; p. 6, back of
booklet, and tray card by Bernadelle Richter
Recorded and mixed by Pete Reiniger at Chicago
Recording Company, Chicago, IL
Assistant engineers: Mat Lejeune and David Gulik
Mastered by Pete Reiniger
Executive producers: Daniel E. Sheehy and
D. A. Sonneborn
Production manager: Mary Monseur
Editorial assistance by Chris Bamberger
Art direction, design & layout by Sonya Cohen Cramer

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