give me that old time religion was written in 1889.
give me that old time religion was written in 1889.
when was give me that old time religion written?
1889
in 1889 tillman was assisting his father with a tent meeting in lexington, south carolina. the elder tillman lent the tent to an african american group for a singing meeting on a sunday afternoon. it was then that young tillman first heard the spiritual "the old time religion" and then quickly scrawled the words and the rudiments of the tune on a scrap of paper. tillman published the work to his largely white church market in 1891. tillman was not first in publishing the song, an honor which goes to g. d. pike in his 1873 "jubilee singers and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars". rather, tillman's contribution was that he culturally appropriated the song into the repertoire of white southerners, whose music was derived from gospel, a style that was a distinct influence on buddy holly and elvis presley. as published by tillman, the song contains verses not found in pike's 1873 version. these possibly had accumulated in oral tradition or/and were augmented by lyrics crafted by tillman. more critically, perhaps, tillman's published version of the tune has a more-mnemonic cadence which may have helped it gain wider currency. tillman's emendations have characterized the song ever since, in the culture of all southerners irrespective of race. the satb arrangement in tillman's songbooks became known to alvin york and is thus the background song for the 1941 academy award film "sergeant york", which spread "the old-time religion" to audiences far beyond the south. following tillman's nuanced example, editors with a largely white target market such as elmer leon jorgenson formalized the first line as "'tis the old-time religion" (likewise the repeated first line of the refrain) to accommodate the song more to the tastes of white southern church congregations and their singing culture.
charles davis tillman
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bullet::::6. "midnight train" (mccarty/greene)









































bullet::::7. "head under water" (greene)









































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bullet::::- b.j.cole (pedal steel and dobro)









































bullet::::- graham preskitt (violin)









































bullet::::- john tout (piano on "old time religion")









































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bullet::::- tania matchett - vocals









































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bullet::::- carmen willcox - lyricist
jim mccarty