Sorry if this has already been done,I reckon a contender must be Wanting You-April Stevens ?? I believe this was first aired in a musical called New Moon on Christms Eve in Philadelphia 1927

Put Your Arms Around Me - Written in 1911

 

The Fisk Jubilee Singers sang it in 1901 !!!!

Kern and Hammerstein's 'Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man' was wrrtten in 1927.

Good Night Irene - well known Wheel sound by the Originals was being performed in 1908, according to Wikapedia an early version was around in 1886.

Dx

Edited July 31, 201311 yr by DaveNPete

I always knew Porgy & Monarchs - My Heart cries had been done previously but the Wikipaedia entry surprised me  :-

"My Heart Cries for You" is a popular song, adapted by Carl Sigman and Percy Faith from an 18th-century French melody.

The music is from an old French song attributed to Marie Antoinette " La jardinière du Roi".

  On 28/07/2013 at 14:41, 123-motown said:

 

The Fisk Jubilee Singers sang it in 1901 !!!!

would of thought it was an adaptation of a tradition comp from a spiritual source, thus dating back far earlier. 

  On 31/07/2013 at 07:59, DaveNPete said:

Good Night Irene - well known Wheel sound by the Originals was being performed in 1908, according to Wikapedia an early version was around in 1886.

Dx

have you checked the matrix on your edison cylinder of it though? 

Got to be wade in the water, slaves in the states used to sing it I do believe? 

The lyrics to wade in the water are about being a runaway slave.

Dx

Oliver Cheatham does an Our Father half way through one of his records, does that count?