Word: hallelujah
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...than do others currently in use. The records were made by special order of Walter P. Chrysler, who is distinctly proud of the choir which grew spontaneously in his factory. Motorman Chrysler last week was planning to give to his friends such selections as Home on the Range, The Hallelujah Chorus, The Mulligan Musketeers, O Bone Jesu, Cornfield Melodies...
...News devoted a whole page to reproducing it. To act in the story, derived from Edgar Wallace. Director Korda hired a high-grade black & white cast. Leslie Banks plays District Commissioner Sanders. Paul Robeson is Bosambo, a reformed convict who becomes chief of a small tribe. Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah) is his wife. The part of King Mofolaba, a scapegrace chief whose misdemeanors account for most of the action, is ably played by a 77-year-old Negro hair-tonic specialist named Toto Wane. When, inflamed by contraband gin, he executes a white man and then plots to kill...
...overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung a few evenings later by Andrew Johnson, soon became the big camp-meeting hymn throughout the State...
...Harper's Ferry raid, Thomas Brigham Bishop happened to be in nearby Martinsburg. Taking paper & pencil he dashed off the crude verses of John Brown's Body Lies a-Mould' ring in the Grave, set them to the music of his Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after a great review across the Potomac Julia Ward Howe heard the Federal troopers...
...Hobo College, Batter had left his money, and directions to master the ceremonies. Announced Dr. Reitman: "Everybody eat, drink, and be merry-that's what Harry ordered. Harry was a sponger . . . and no good, but he had a fine heart." Services opened with the singing of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum." Vagrants got drunk, made speeches, piously intoned the Hobo's Prayer. At wake's end, quarters were distributed to every guest. Next day Host Harry Batter was cremated, and his ashes scattered over the graves of the Haymarket rioters...