Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part II of a two part series on the African American Jubilee (Gospel) song "Drive Old Satan Away".
Part II showcases a sound file of and lyric transcription of Pentecostal Bishop Ronald E. Brown's rendition of "Drive Old Satan Away" (with the Bishop's introductory remarks.) This example is from the late 20th century/early 21st century.
This post also includes text for the song "Drive Satan Away" as sung by Nu Beginning- featuring Damon Little.
A link to a version of this song by Little Cedric And The Hailey Singers is also included in this post.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/05/two-really-old-school-versions-of.html for Part I of this series.
Part I features two late 19th century/early 20th century text examples (word only) versions of songs that include the line "Drive old Satan away".
The content of this post is presented for religious and cultural purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the unnamed persons who composed this song and thanks to Bishop Ronald E. Brown and his congregation for this rendition. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this sound file on YouTube.
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SHOWCASE EXAMPLE: Bishop Ronald e. brown " drive old satan away"
vann1024, Uploaded on Apr 28, 2011
this video is LONG OVERDUE.
I DON'T OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THIS SONG
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Selected comments from this sound file's discussion thread:
1drjcb, 2011
Yes sir, "Drive ole Satan away". Good God from Heaven! This is that old time sanctified, foot stomping, toung talking kind of church that I grew up with. God bless you vann1024 for posting.
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"toung talking" = tongue talking (speaking in tongues because you have been touched by the Holy Spirit)
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Khristian Dean Alexander, 2011
"We still sing this song in testimony service....... Yes Lord....Glory to God!!!
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Khristian Dean Alexander, 2012
in reply to question "Do churches still sing this song:
"Oh yes we do.............Bethel Temple Apostolic Church,"
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Elder Dexter Thomas, 2013
"yes sir this is old school"
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Here's some biographical information about Bishop Ronald E. Brown from http://www.ronaldebrown.com/bishopbio.html
"Bishop Ronald Elwood Hill Brown was born on Friday, March 14, 1947 in Savannah, Georgia.
...At the age of twenty-two, he opened the Faith Deliverance Evangelistic Center; later renamed Faith Tabernacle Deliverance Temple, Inc. Bishop Brown holds an honorary degree, Doctorate of Divinity, and Doctorate of Humane Letters from the United Christian College of Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was licensed and appointed Bishop of the United Pentecostal Churches of Deliverance to head the Faith Tabernacle jurisdiction under the auspices of Bishop S. D. Johnson in 1987. Bishop Robert Evans, founder of the End-Time Christian Fellowship Association in 1994, later ordained and gave Bishop Brown a formal Bishopric ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia....
His debut CD, entitled, "Live! Having Good Old Fashioned Church,” was released in September 1996 and remained on the Billboard charts for 30 weeks. He has also been featured in Gospel Industry Today Magazine and was one of the most talked about artist at the 1997 Gospel Music Workshop of America's board meeting in Houston, Texas. He followed his debut CD, with “Live! Having Good Old Fashioned Church Part II” and “The Sounds of Pentecost.” "
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INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS BY BISHOP RONALED E BROWN (from the sound file found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh2ANs38sgE)
Note: The congregations' responses to Bishop Brown's call (words) are written in brackets.
"Every now and then we like to go way back.
[Yeah]
And pull out some old songs
[Yeah]
Hallelujah!
[Yeah] The congregation continues responding to each line of the introduction with “Yeah”; the pianist also plays a chord in response to each line of the introduction.
We’re talkin ‘bout spiritual warfare
We’re talkin bout pullin out the stronghold.
But there was an ooooold song
that they used to sing years ago.
There was an ooooold song
When it looked like the enemy was tryin to hinder,
When the devil was tryin to bind.
There was an oooooooold song
that they used to sing.
Hallelujah!
Somebody would get a tamborine.
Somebody had a washboard.
Somebody had a bass drum.
Somebody had different kind of music.
But they would get happy.
They would look at the saints of God
And say ___"[Bishop starts singing the song]
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LYRICS: DRIVE OLD SATAN AWAY
(as sung by Bishop E. Brown & congregation)
Note: The congregations' responses to Bishop Brown's call (words) are written in brackets.
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
He come to hinder
[Drive old Satan away]
He come to hinder ya
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
We don’t want him here
[Drive old Satan away]
We don’t need him here
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Drive him away, Lord
[Drive old Satan away]
Drive him away, Lord
[Drive old Satan away]
Put the blood on him
(Wooh!) Blood of Jesus on ‘em, Yes, Lord!
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Yeah, drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help me drive old
[Drive old Satan away]
Help us drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Help us drive
[Drive old Satan away]
Yeah, ooooh.
[piano vamp and hand clapping]
(end of vamp)
I’m so glad I’m
[Save]
By
[The]
And I’ve got the Holy
[Ghost]
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This is my transcription of this sound file. Additions and corrections are welcome.
The lyrics to this song aren't fixed. Nu Beginning- featuring Damon Little's song "Drive Satan Away" appears to combines late 19th century songs "Old Man Satan" and "Drive Old Satan Away". A version of those two songs is given in Part I of this post.
Here are those lyrics as found at http://www.allgospellyrics.com/?sec=listing&lyricid=11789
"Verse 1
Hebrew children were in the fiery furnace and Daniel was in the lions' den. And old man Satan thought he had them in the palm of his hand.
Chorus
Drive ol' Satan away.
Verse 2
When Moses was leading the children out of Egypt land, they were stuck in the red sea with Pharoah's army behind them.
Chorus
Drive ol' Satan away.
Verse 3
When Jesus died on the cross, old Satan thought it was the end of Christ. They went to the tomb on the third day, he died and rose again.
Chorus
Drive ol' Satan away.
Drive ol' Satan away. Drive ol' Satan away. Drive ol' Satan away.
Vamp
Drive ol' man Satan away. Drive ol' man Satan away. Drive ol' man Satan away. Drive ol' man Satan away. Drive ol' man Satan away. Drive ol' man Satan away. Drive ol' man Satan away.
-snip-
Other examples of this song can be found on YouTube. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGbUCzcXbI for a recording of the song "Drive Satan Away" by Little Cedric And The Hailey Singers. That arrangement has a R&B/Soul flavor.
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Gospel & Jazz Examples Of "When The Saints Go Marching In"
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post provides information about the song "When The Saints Go Marching In" and showcases two examples of Gospel versions and five examples of New Orleans Jazz versions of this song. This post also features an example of "When The Saints Go Marching In" as sung by R&B great James Brown.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, religious, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the composer/s of this song and thanks to all singers and musicians who are featured in these examples. Thanks also to the publishers of these examples on YouTube.
This post honors the fiftieth anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" March in Selma, Alabama.
Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches for information about that 1965 civil rights march.
Also, click http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/barack-obama-selma-anniversary_n_6823060.html amd http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/08/bloody-sunday-selma-march_n_6826932.html for information about the fiftieth anniversary march which was held March 7, 2015.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONG "WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In
"When the Saints Go Marching In", often referred to as "The Saints", is an American gospel hymn. The precise origins of the song are not known. Though it originated as a Christian hymn, it is often played by jazz bands. This song was first recorded on May 13, 1938 by Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra.[1] The song is sometimes confused with a similarly titled composition "When the Saints are Marching In" from 1896 by Katharine Purvis (lyrics) and James Milton Black (music). Luther G. Presley,[3] who wrote the lyrics, and Virgil Oliver Stamps, who wrote the music, popularized the tune as a gospel song.[4] A similar version was copyrighted by R.E. Winsett.[5]
Although the song is still heard as a slow spiritual number, since the mid 20th century it has been more commonly performed as a "hot" number. The tune is particularly associated with the city of New Orleans. A jazz standard, it has been recorded by a great many jazz and pop artists.
Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound. Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop tune in the 1930s. Armstrong wrote that his sister told him she thought the secular performance style of the traditional church tune was inappropriate and irreligious. Armstrong was in a New Orleans tradition of turning church numbers into brass band and dance numbers that went back at least to Buddy Bolden's band at the start of the 20th century.
In New Orleans, the song is traditionally used as a funeral march at "jazz funerals". While accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band plays the tune as a dirge. Returning from the interment, the band switches to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style of play.”...
Lyrics
As with many numbers with long traditional folk use, there is no one "official" version of the song or its lyrics...As for the lyrics themselves, their very simplicity makes it easy to generate new verses. Since the first, second, and fourth lines of a verse are exactly the same, and the third standard throughout, the creation of one suitable line in iambic tetrameter generates an entire verse.”
-snip-
Read the statements that I posted in the comment section below about the meaning of "iambic tetrameter".
Some common verses for Gospel & Jazz renditions of this song are:
1. When the saints go marching in...
2. When the sun refuse to shine...
3. When they crown Him Lord of Lords
-snip-
Him = Jesus
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WHAT "SAINTS" MEAN IN THE SONG
From http://www.academia.edu/678234/Songs_of_Pentecost_Experiencing_music_transcendence_and_identity_in_Jamaica_and_Haiti, p. xii
"Among Pentecostal congregations, the term “saints” denotes those “believers who have professed Christ as their personal savior, been saved by His holy power, and now walk the‘set apart’ path of sanctification” (Hinson 2000, 2)."
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FEATURED EXAMPLES
With the exception of the two traditional Gospel examples, these videos are presented in chronological order based on their publishing dates on YouTube with the examples with the oldest dates presented earliest.
Example #1: "When The Saints Go Marching In" (1959) Famous Ward Singers
Gospel Nostalgia, Published on Apr 12, 2014
This is track 6 from the 1959 album "At The Apollo Theatre".
Clara Ward's mother, Gertrude Ward (1901--1981), founded the Ward Singers in 1931 as a family group, then called, variously, The Consecrated Gospel Singers or The Ward Trio, consisting of herself, her youngest daughter Clara, and her elder daughter, Willarene ("Willa"). Clara Ward recorded her first solo song in 1940, and continued accompanying the Ward Gospel Trio, thereafter.
The Ward Singers began touring nationally in 1943, following a memorable appearance at the National Baptist Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earlier that year. Henrietta Waddy joined the group in 1947, after Willa Ward retired. Waddy brought to the group a "rougher" alto sound and the enthusiastic stage manners learned from her South Carolina church background. The group's performance style, such as the mimed packing of suitcases as part of the song "Packin' Up", condemned by some gospel music purists as "clowning", was wildly popular with their audiences.
The addition of Marion Williams, who arose of the Miami, Florida Pentecostal tradition brought to the group a powerful singer with a preternaturally broad range, able to reach the highest registers of the soprano range without losing either purity or volume, with the added ability to descend "growling low notes" in the style of a country preacher. Williams' singing style helped make the group nationally popular when they began recording in 1948."...
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Example #2: "When The Saints Go Marching In"- Clara Ward Singers
Rowoches. Published on Jul 25, 2012
*I don't have the copyrights to this video, but I have been given permission, by Willa Ward, to post.
The Clara Ward Singers in Antibes, France during the 1962 Antibes Jazz Festival. Clara Ward leads the group with "When The Saints Go Marching In."
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Example #3: New Orleans Traditional Jazz - When the Saints Go Marching In!
New Orleans Traditional Jazz Uploaded on Nov 22, 2009
New Orleans Traditional Jazz Band performs the Saints Go Marching In Compton
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Example #4: Fats Domino ( best of the bands ) Part 2 O when the Saints
thejazzsingers, Uploaded on Jan 1, 2011
Happy New Year Lets Party Fats and his Band !
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Example #5: When the saints go marching in - James Brown
Eric Cajundelyon Uploaded on Aug 12, 2011
Classic Gospel cover by the Godfather of Soul himself...
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Example #6: When The Saints Go Marching In - B.B. KIng
keithlee77, Uploaded on Sep 18, 2011
-snip-
female soloist-singer/actor Solange
male soloist - actor, singer Terrence Howard
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Example #7: Louis Armstrong When the Saints Go Marching In, 1961
Владимир Тишин, Published on Sep 20, 2012
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Example #8: When the saints go marching in - New Orleans street music
rumpustina, Published on Apr 1, 2013
that lady was GOOD
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Comment from that video's viewer comment thread identifying the female musician/singer:
Bui NYC, 2013
"Her name is Doreen Ketchens."
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This pancocojams post provides information about the song "When The Saints Go Marching In" and showcases two examples of Gospel versions and five examples of New Orleans Jazz versions of this song. This post also features an example of "When The Saints Go Marching In" as sung by R&B great James Brown.
The content of this post is presented for cultural, religious, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to the composer/s of this song and thanks to all singers and musicians who are featured in these examples. Thanks also to the publishers of these examples on YouTube.
This post honors the fiftieth anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" March in Selma, Alabama.
Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches for information about that 1965 civil rights march.
Also, click http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/07/barack-obama-selma-anniversary_n_6823060.html amd http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/08/bloody-sunday-selma-march_n_6826932.html for information about the fiftieth anniversary march which was held March 7, 2015.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONG "WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Saints_Go_Marching_In
"When the Saints Go Marching In", often referred to as "The Saints", is an American gospel hymn. The precise origins of the song are not known. Though it originated as a Christian hymn, it is often played by jazz bands. This song was first recorded on May 13, 1938 by Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra.[1] The song is sometimes confused with a similarly titled composition "When the Saints are Marching In" from 1896 by Katharine Purvis (lyrics) and James Milton Black (music). Luther G. Presley,[3] who wrote the lyrics, and Virgil Oliver Stamps, who wrote the music, popularized the tune as a gospel song.[4] A similar version was copyrighted by R.E. Winsett.[5]
Although the song is still heard as a slow spiritual number, since the mid 20th century it has been more commonly performed as a "hot" number. The tune is particularly associated with the city of New Orleans. A jazz standard, it has been recorded by a great many jazz and pop artists.
Both vocal and instrumental renditions of the song abound. Louis Armstrong was one of the first to make the tune into a nationally known pop tune in the 1930s. Armstrong wrote that his sister told him she thought the secular performance style of the traditional church tune was inappropriate and irreligious. Armstrong was in a New Orleans tradition of turning church numbers into brass band and dance numbers that went back at least to Buddy Bolden's band at the start of the 20th century.
In New Orleans, the song is traditionally used as a funeral march at "jazz funerals". While accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band plays the tune as a dirge. Returning from the interment, the band switches to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style of play.”...
Lyrics
As with many numbers with long traditional folk use, there is no one "official" version of the song or its lyrics...As for the lyrics themselves, their very simplicity makes it easy to generate new verses. Since the first, second, and fourth lines of a verse are exactly the same, and the third standard throughout, the creation of one suitable line in iambic tetrameter generates an entire verse.”
-snip-
Read the statements that I posted in the comment section below about the meaning of "iambic tetrameter".
Some common verses for Gospel & Jazz renditions of this song are:
1. When the saints go marching in...
2. When the sun refuse to shine...
3. When they crown Him Lord of Lords
-snip-
Him = Jesus
****
WHAT "SAINTS" MEAN IN THE SONG
From http://www.academia.edu/678234/Songs_of_Pentecost_Experiencing_music_transcendence_and_identity_in_Jamaica_and_Haiti, p. xii
"Among Pentecostal congregations, the term “saints” denotes those “believers who have professed Christ as their personal savior, been saved by His holy power, and now walk the‘set apart’ path of sanctification” (Hinson 2000, 2)."
****
FEATURED EXAMPLES
With the exception of the two traditional Gospel examples, these videos are presented in chronological order based on their publishing dates on YouTube with the examples with the oldest dates presented earliest.
Example #1: "When The Saints Go Marching In" (1959) Famous Ward Singers
Gospel Nostalgia, Published on Apr 12, 2014
This is track 6 from the 1959 album "At The Apollo Theatre".
Clara Ward's mother, Gertrude Ward (1901--1981), founded the Ward Singers in 1931 as a family group, then called, variously, The Consecrated Gospel Singers or The Ward Trio, consisting of herself, her youngest daughter Clara, and her elder daughter, Willarene ("Willa"). Clara Ward recorded her first solo song in 1940, and continued accompanying the Ward Gospel Trio, thereafter.
The Ward Singers began touring nationally in 1943, following a memorable appearance at the National Baptist Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, earlier that year. Henrietta Waddy joined the group in 1947, after Willa Ward retired. Waddy brought to the group a "rougher" alto sound and the enthusiastic stage manners learned from her South Carolina church background. The group's performance style, such as the mimed packing of suitcases as part of the song "Packin' Up", condemned by some gospel music purists as "clowning", was wildly popular with their audiences.
The addition of Marion Williams, who arose of the Miami, Florida Pentecostal tradition brought to the group a powerful singer with a preternaturally broad range, able to reach the highest registers of the soprano range without losing either purity or volume, with the added ability to descend "growling low notes" in the style of a country preacher. Williams' singing style helped make the group nationally popular when they began recording in 1948."...
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Example #2: "When The Saints Go Marching In"- Clara Ward Singers
Rowoches. Published on Jul 25, 2012
*I don't have the copyrights to this video, but I have been given permission, by Willa Ward, to post.
The Clara Ward Singers in Antibes, France during the 1962 Antibes Jazz Festival. Clara Ward leads the group with "When The Saints Go Marching In."
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Example #3: New Orleans Traditional Jazz - When the Saints Go Marching In!
New Orleans Traditional Jazz Uploaded on Nov 22, 2009
New Orleans Traditional Jazz Band performs the Saints Go Marching In Compton
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Example #4: Fats Domino ( best of the bands ) Part 2 O when the Saints
thejazzsingers, Uploaded on Jan 1, 2011
Happy New Year Lets Party Fats and his Band !
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Example #5: When the saints go marching in - James Brown
Eric Cajundelyon Uploaded on Aug 12, 2011
Classic Gospel cover by the Godfather of Soul himself...
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Example #6: When The Saints Go Marching In - B.B. KIng
keithlee77, Uploaded on Sep 18, 2011
-snip-
female soloist-singer/actor Solange
male soloist - actor, singer Terrence Howard
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Example #7: Louis Armstrong When the Saints Go Marching In, 1961
Владимир Тишин, Published on Sep 20, 2012
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Example #8: When the saints go marching in - New Orleans street music
rumpustina, Published on Apr 1, 2013
that lady was GOOD
-snip-
Comment from that video's viewer comment thread identifying the female musician/singer:
Bui NYC, 2013
"Her name is Doreen Ketchens."
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