A Titanic Playlist: Songs and Gospel

Almost as soon as Titanic sank, people were singing about her. And they've been singing ever since:

"Be British" Robert Carr, 1912
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqX_yHeHcU

Cantor Yossele Rosenblat, "El Mole Rachamim," 1912
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qkNxqhSTHY

"The Titanic," Ernest Stoneman, 1924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9gLD32EW8

"The Titanic," William and Versey Smith, 1927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lq-cqHXJnw

"The Sinking of the Titanic," Richard "Rabbit" Brown, 1927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_3BkouFIIM

"Last Scene of the Titanic," Frank Hutchinson, 1927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJcLYAxoTI

"God Moves on the Water," Blind Wllie Johnson, 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZ3QQVSLPI

"Down with the Old Canoe," Dixon Brothers, 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQYBXPb74ok

"The Titanic," Leadbelly, 1948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNlnl8nbfSE

"It Was Sad when that Great Ship Went Down"
Vernon Dalhart, 1927 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAwa7xgiGMM
Woody Guthrie, 1944(ish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ulu8bnIBk
Pete Seeger, 1940s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u61Pj4f6Ucg
Roy Acuff, 1950s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQ_bxF_N1U

"Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic," Jamie Brockett, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXxhBg2IWE

"The Sinking of the Titanic," Gavin Bryars, 1975. There are two versions, both of which are worth listening to. Thanks, Christopher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TMjdYpgZIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s


"Titanic," General Echo, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efL8IWe50tU

(Early recordings of (somewhat) Titanic-related music were collected in a French compilation, available for digital download:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EZ90C9U/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp )

"Shine and the Titanic"

Carter Family "Just as the Ship Went Down" and  with a new last verse about 9/11. Giving you this one because this book is my 9/11 book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDKIJ05y-U

The Webbs, Crystal Gayle, and Loretta Lynn did it in 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfMsSsng6vQ

Bob Dylan, "Tempest", based on the Carter Family song. Can't find him singing it on YouTube (get the album!) and all the covers have been taken down. But gotta have Dylan singing a Dylan survival song, though--"Not Dark Yet" was on my playlist while I was writing the book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ

Josh Ritter "To the Dogs, or Whoever". This man is a legend. Listen for the line about the iceberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rcUsFatXw4 

Reisden and Perdita hear these men during their night in Harlem :

• ​Rev. E.D. Campbell, "In Hell He Lifted Up His Eyes" and "Come Let Us Eat Together"
  
• and "Hell under the Water" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V4QxDT9Qdk
  
• Luther Magby, "Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit" This wonderful singer recorded only two songs in November 1927, but there's a record of a Luther Magby playing gospel music in 2002. He'd have been 106 then. Or a ghost. Live forever, ghost, and sing.

And, for spine-tingling eeriness, here is Titanic's whistle itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=judmxCTsTBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7BLGibGUTA

And some Titanic engine noises (I don't swear to the authenticity of these):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqyEi0Ad3E





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