Swing Low

~ Recording by Harry Belafonte

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.9Swing Low?:??Harry BelafonteMy Lord What a Mornin’Harry BelafonteAlbum
RCA VictorLSP 2022, LSP-2022
1.9Swing Low?:??Harry BelafonteMy Lord What a Mornin’Harry BelafonteAlbum
RCA International (Camden) (RCA sub imprint)INTS 1437
1.9Swing Low4:02Harry BelafonteMy Lord What a Mornin’Harry BelafonteAlbum
  • DE1995-04-24
RCA Victor
1.9Swing Low3:57Harry BelafonteMy Lord What a Mornin’ (Stereo Reissue)Harry BelafonteAlbum
RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle), BMG (the former Bertelsmann Music Group, defunct since 2004-08-05; for releases dated 2008 and later, see annotation)74321 26049 2, 74321 26049-2
1.3Swing Low3:59Harry BelafonteAmerican Wintertime - A Holiday AlbumHarry BelafonteAlbum + Compilation
  • DE2006-01-02
RCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)00316
1.50Swing Low4:02Harry BelafonteThe Complete Harry Belafonte, Volume 2: 1959 - 1962Harry BelafonteAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2013-02-11
Chrome Dreams (“Maximum” bootleg biography series)
2.9Swing Low (from the album “My Lord What a Mornin”, 1960)3:59Harry BelafonteHarry Belafonte, Volume 2: Six Classic AlbumsHarry BelafonteAlbum + Compilation
Real Gone (UK budget label active 2010–2015, issued mainly compilations of public domain music)RGMCD071
1.9Swing Low4:00Harry BelafonteMy Lord What a Mornin’Harry BelafonteAlbumRCA (RCA Records: simple ‘RCA’ or ‘RCA’ with lightning bolt in circle)

Relationships

recording of:Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

lyricist and composer:Wallace Willis (in 1862)
publisher:E.C. Music (UK work publisher for Eric Clapton)
Throat Music
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
referred to in medleys:Medley 1: Brazil / You Are Too Beautiful / Cecilia (Does Your Mother Know You're Out) / Love Walked In / You Made Me Love You / Nothing Could Be Finer / Please Be Kind / Dancing With Tears in My Eyes / Maria / Try Little Tenderness / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / What Is This Thing Called Love / Did You Ever See a Deer Walking (order: 11)
later parody versions:Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
later versions:Swing Down Sweet Chariot
is the basis for:Fantasy and Fugue on Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Sweet Chariot (march)
Swing Low (Run With the Ball)
Vieux chariot
arrangements:Swing Low (Bobby McFerrin arrangement)
Swing Low '03 (2003 version, arr. C. Skarbek / UB40)
Swing Low ’99 (1999 Rugby World Cup version, arr. C. Skarbek / T.R. Evans)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arrangement from “The Spiritual Medley”)