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Anchor Bye and Bye/We'll Anchor Bye and Bye
Traditional Spiritual and Gospel Song;
ARTIST: Institutional Radio Choir
YOUTUBE: 2008 — The Radio Choir singing Anchor Bye and Bye.
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Anchor Bye And Bye
Dinwiddie Quartet/ We'll Anchor Bye and Bye (1902).
The Southern Sons / We'll Anchor Bye And Bye
The Harmonizing Four/We'll Anchor Bye and Bye
OTHER NAMES: "Anchor By and By," "Anchor Bye and Bye," "We'll Anchor Bye And Bye"
SOURCES: Youtube;
NOTES: "Anchor Bye and Bye," usually titled "We'll Anchor Bye and Bye" is based on a spiritual (or spirituals) from the 1800s, one is titled "We'll Stand the Storm" by The Jubilee Singers circa 1874. The song was first recorded as "We'll Anchor Bye and Bye" in 1902 by Dinwiddie Quartet. The song with new arrangements by the Institutional Radio Choir (the original 1968 version of "Anchor By and By" has a lead by Evangelist Gloria White and Dr. Joyce Taylor) and others is popular in African-American churches and many versions can be found on youtube. David Laws has been mentioned as one arranger.
The song was cited with the same lyrics as the Jubilee Singers by W.E.B. Du Bois in The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois: Selections, 1877-1934 by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois.
We'll Stand the Storm- The Jubilee Singers (excerpt):
CHORUS: Oh! stand the storm, it won't be long,
We'll anchor by-and-by,
Stand the storm, it won't be long,
We'll anchor by-and-by.
1. My ship is on the ocean,
We'll anchor by-and-by,
My ship is on the ocean,
We'll anchor by-and-by.
Dinwiddie Quartet - from Pennsylvania was formed to raise money for the Dix Industrial School in Virginia. The Dinwiddie Quartet was an African-American vocal quartet.
The group was originally founded in 1898 as a jubilee quartet, under the name The Dinwiddie Quartet, to benefit the Dinwiddie Normal and Industrial School of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Around 1902, they became independent of the school, and were touring as part of a vaudeville revue.
In October of 1902, they recorded six sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company, under the name of The Dinwiddie Colored Quartet. Recorded in separate sessions on the 29th and 31st of October, the songs selected were "Down On The Old Camp Ground", "Poor Mourner", "Gabriel's Trumpet", "My Way Is Cloudy", "We'll Anchor Bye-And-Bye", and "Steal Away". The group is believed to have disbanded in 1904.
The Dinwiddie Quartet is believed to be the first black vocal quartet to record on disc. Some scholars incorrectly believed the Dinwiddie Quartet recordings to be the earliest surviving black vocal group recordings of any kind, but prior recordings had been made on wax cylinder by The Unique Quartette, a decade earlier.
All six tracks recorded for Victor survive to the present day. Scholars regard these recordings, especially "Down On The Old Camp Ground", as key documents in the recorded history of black jubilee music.
We'll Stand The Storm - The Service of Song for Baptist Churches: 1876
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1. Oh shout for joy! Let songs arise,
The Lamb that once was slain,
Will come in glory from the skies,
Upon the earth to reign.
CHORUS: We will stand the storm,
It will not be very long,
We will anchor by and by.
2. The trumpet sounds; its awful voice
Is heard o'er land and sea;
And saints arising now rejoice
To live eternally. Cho.
3 Yes, they shall live forevermore,
Secure from toil and pain ;
And on that bright and happy shore,
With their Redeemer reign. Cho.
4 All hail that bright, eternal day,
When David's rightful heir
Shall take the throne and hold the sway
In glorious triumph there. Cho.
The second group centers around images of the passage of humankind through the mortal world to the divine realm, as in the following chorus:
We'll stem the storm, it won't be long
The heav'nly port is nigh.
We'll stem the storm, it won't be long
We'll anchor by and by.
A different version is found in Gospel Jewels for Sabbath Schools by R. E. Hudson
Publisher: Publishing House of the Evangelical Association; Date: 1885
13. BY AND BY- Words and Music by TOM C. NEAL.
1. Tossed upon life's stormy sea,
For our home in heaven we sigh;
If to Christ we faithful be,
We shall anchor by and by!
By and by, yes, by and by,
We shall anchor by and by;
Storm-clouds ne'er shall sweep the skies,
When we anchor by and by!
2. In life's battle sore we fight,
"Help, O Lord!" we oft must cry--
Thro' Him standing for the right;
We shall triumph by and by!
By and by, yes, by and by,
We shall triumph by and by;
All our deadly foes shall fly,
When we triumph by and by!
3. When this life of toil is past,
And the earthly shadows fly,
Heav'n, our home, we'll gain at last;
There'll be glory by and by!
By and by, yes, by and by,
There'll be glory by and by;
In our blessed Home on high,
There'll be glory by and by!
Anchor Bye And Bye- Institutional Radio Choir
CHORUS: We will stand the storm,
It will not be very long,
We will anchor by and by.
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