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Odetta

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Aliases
Odetta Gordon
Real name
Odetta Holmes
Born
December 31, 1930
Died
December 2, 2008
Country
United States
Comments
Blues, gospel and folk singer, guitarist and composer. Odetta was known as the "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Also known as Odetta Felious (stepfather's surname) and Odetta Gordon (ex-spouse's surname).
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Covers by Odetta

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1954 Fiddlin' John Carson
1963 Fiddlin' John Carson
November 1960 (unknown), (unknown)
1957 Prince's Orchestra
1963 Bob Gibson [US]
October 1957 (unknown)
1957 Vera Hall
July 1959 (unknown)
November 1969 Roger McGuinn
July 1959 (unknown), (unknown)
  1963 Bob Dylan REC, The Chad Mitchell Trio REL
August 2001 Leadbelly
1957 Tuskegee Institute Singers
September 28, 1999 Prince's Band, (unknown)
1960 Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers
October 1957 Henry Whitter
1963 (unknown)
1963 Bob and Randall Atcher and Bonnie Blue Eyes
1959 Leadbelly
1960 Merle Travis
1957 (unknown)
October 1957 Maud Powell accompanied by George Falkenstein
1964 Cisco Houston
March 1965 (unknown), Bob Dylan
July 1959 Deacon Leon Davis and His Congregation
1957 Ma Rainey - Acc. by Her Georgia Jazz Band
1962 Pete Seeger
November 1970 Paul McCartney
1964 (unknown)
November 1970 Spanky & Our Gang
1957 The Elders McIntorsh and Edwards' Sanctified Singers
  1957 The Jubalaires REL, Golden Gate Quartet REC
1960 Anton Seidl, Reinald Werrenrath
  August 2001 Lead Belly REL, Leadbelly REC
1960 Dorothy Maynor with Unaccompanied Male Choir
1960 Woody Guthrie
October 1957 (unknown)
April 1962 Jimmie Driftwood
October 1957 Rev. F. W. McGee
1957 Vaughn Monroe
1962 Ashley and Foster
August 2001 Ida Cox, Leroy Carr
1960 The Weavers
October 1960 The Weavers
1957 (unknown)
1962 Libby Holman with Josh White
July 1959 (unknown)
September 28, 2010 Todd Duncan
1963 Carter Family
August 2001 "Dock" Walsh
1957 Fiddlin' John Carson
October 1960 Fiddlin' John Carson
1954 Fiddlin' John Carson
November 30, 1987 Fiddlin' John Carson
2001 Blind Willie Johnson
1959 Harrod's Jubilee Singers
1962 Ma Rainey
August 22, 2000 John Hiatt
June 1967 Gloria Grafton
November 1970 James Taylor
June 1967 Prince Kalu and His Hawaiian Serenaders
1962 Virginia Liston
November 1970 Eric Burdon and The Animals
1960 (unknown)
March 1965 (unknown), Bob Dylan
1964 (unknown)
  March 1965 Bob Dylan REC, The Brothers Four REL
1957 Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
  1962 Jimmie Cox PRF, Blind Bobby Baker and His Guitar REC,REL
November 1970 The Rolling Stones
October 1960 Paul Robeson with Lawrence Brown
1954 Ernest Williams, James "Iron Head" Baker and Convict Group
July 1959 Ernest Williams, James "Iron Head" Baker and Convict Group
1962 Ma Rainey – Acc. By Her Georgia Band
1954 (unknown)
1954 Leadbelly
1960 George Reneau
1963 Pete Seeger
1960 (unknown), Woody Guthrie
 REL 1964 (unknown), Bob Dylan REC
Covered by (6 artists)
1960 (unknown)
1954 (unknown)
September 28, 1999 Percy Mayfield
1964 Vaughan's Texas Quartet
1960 Dorothy Maynor with Unaccompanied Male Choir
1963 Bob Gibson [US]
  1954 Rock Island Colored Booster Quartet PRF, Kelly Pace and Group REC, Lead Belly REL
October 1957 "Uncle Bunt" Stephens
2001 "Uncle Bunt" Stephens
1957 (unknown)
1954 (unknown)
1957 Sir Lancelot
1963 (unknown)
1963 John Goss and the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet
Somebody's talking about Jesus Odetta 1960 Unverified
October 1960 (unknown)
1957 (unknown), Blind Willie Johnson, Bo Weavil Jackson
April 20, 2012 Ben E. King - Arr. & Cond. by Stan Applebaum
June 1967 The Beatles
November 1970 Orange Bicycle
October 1957 Lead Belly
July 1959 (unknown), (unknown)
1966 (unknown)
1954 The Weavers
October 1957 Bentley Ball
1963 (unknown)
  October 1957 John Jacob Niles REC,REL,PRF
October 1957 Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
March 1965 Bob Dylan
1960 Woody Guthrie
1963 St. Paul Baptist Choir
October 1957 Joshua White and His Carolinians
March 1965 Bob Dylan
  March 1965 Jackie De Shannon REL, Bob Dylan REC
1954 (unknown), Paul Robeson - Piano Accompaniment Lawrence Brown
1962 Bessie Smith
1966 Joe Glazer and the Elm City Four
  August 2001 Lead Belly REL, Leadbelly REC
1963 Jack Elliott
March 1965 Dominic Behan, Joan Baez
1962 "Ma" Rainey with Her Georgia Band