"We'll Understand It Better Bye And Bye" is a gospelsong written in 1905 by Rev. Charles Albert Tindley, while he was pastor of the Bainbridge Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
Probably first published in "Soul Echoes: A Collection of Songs for Religious Meetings No. 2"
It was song # 30 in that collection.
A version of Tindley's hymn was collected in Tennessee and appears in the 1914 Journal of American Folk-Lore: page #258 song #5
The first recorded version of this gospelsong seems to be:
(o) Frank & James McCravy (1925) (as "We'll Understand It Better Bye And Bye")
Recorded February 1925 in New York
Released on Okeh 40319
This version is still on my wishlist !!
(c) The Guitar Evangelist (=Rev. Edward W. Clayborn) ("Bye and Bye When the Morning Comes")
Recorded April 19, 1927
Released on Vocalion 1097
Listen here:
(c) Frank and James McCravy 1927 ("Bye and Bye")
Recorded
08-07-27
Released on Victor 20817
Listen here:
(c) Posey Rorer and the North Carolina Ramblers ("We'll understand it
better bye and bye")
Recorded September 24, 1928
Edison Matrix # 18752 (unissued at the time)
Edison Matrix # N-455 (unissued at the time)
Listen here:
(c) Kentucky Mountain Chorusters ("We'll Understand It Better Bye And Bye")
Recorded February 5, 1929
Released on Gennett 6888
Listen here:
(c) Smith Sacred Singers (1934) ("We’ll Understand It Better Bye And Bye")
J. Frank Smith, lv; Joe Day, tv; Willie Fowler, bv; Bob Coker, bsv; Mildred Cowsert, p;
Recorded Atlanta, GA Tuesday, July 31, 1934
Matrix 82855-1
Released on Bluebird B-5750
(c) Wiley, Zeke & Homer (The Smilin’ Rangers): ("Understand It Better Bye-And-Bye")
Homer Sherrill, f; Zeke Morris, g/v; Wiley Morris, g/v.
Recorded in Charlotte, NC on Wednesday, January 26, 1938
Matrix 018737-1
Released on Bluebird B-7497 and Montgomery Ward M-7488
Listen here: at 15 min and 30 sec in the YT below
(c) Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra:
Recorded in NYC, December 18, 1939
Released on Decca 3011 and Decca 25153
Listen here:
(c) Alphabetical Four (1941) ("We Will Understand It Bye And Bye")
Recorded on April 7, 1941.
Released on Decca 7845
Listen here:
(c) Leadbelly 1945 ("Bye and Bye When The Morning Comes")
Recorded February 15, 1945
| San Francisco, California | February 15, 1945 |
| Standard (Oil Company) Broadcast radio program | |
| Huddie Ledbetter | vocal/guitar |
| children | singing |
Originally released in 1960 on Folkways album # 7533
Listen here:
(c) Deacon Utley (and the Smile A While Quartet) (1947) ("Bye and Bye When The Morning Comes")
Recorded December 1947
Released on Columbia 20562
Listen to a sample here: gj.rcs-discography.com/ss/14/ss14729.mp3
Or a complete version at 1 hour, 44 min and 39 sec in the playlist below
(c) Blackwood Brothers Qt (1948) ("We Will Understand It Better Bye And Bye")
Released on the B-side of "Well done My Child" (Blackwood Bros Records 1149)
(c) Soul Stirrers (1950) ("By and By part 1 and 2")
Recorded February 24, 1950.
Released August 1950 on Specialty SP 354
Listen here:
(c) Davis Sisters (1952) ("By and By part 1 and 2")
Released on Gotham G-716 (78 RPM) and Gotham G-7716 (45 RPM)
Listen here:
(c) Sleepy John Estes (1962)
Recorded April 22, 1962 in Chicago;
Sleepy John Estes, voc, g
Listen here:
(c) Bill Monroe 1964 ("We'll Understand it Better")
Recorded May 17, 1962, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville 3, TN –
Bill Monroe (Frank Buchanan, Tony Ellis, Bessie Mauldin, Red Stanley [barytone vcl], Culley Holt [bass vcl]. Producer: Harry Silverstein)
Released July 1964 the album "I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning" (Decca DL-74537)
Listen here:
(c) Statesmen Quartet (1950's)
AND: Elvis Presley also sang a version of this gospel-classic as "By and By"
Recorded on May 27, 1966
Released on the album "How Great Thou Art"
Listen here:
NOT to be confused with "Bye and Bye We're Going To See The King".
Although the melody is quite similar
SEE THIS POST ON MY BLOG: http://jopiepopie.blogspot.nl/2013/10/bye-and-bye-were-going-to-see-king-1926.html
And NOT to be confused with "Bye and Bye" by the Nazarene Congregational Church Choir.
(c) Nazarene Congregational Church Choir 1926
Recorded on November 20, 1926
Released on Gennett 6004
Also released on Herschel Gold Seal 2016
Listen here:
The "Bye and Bye" tag, used at the end of a chorus or line, is frequent in the African-American tradition. The old hymn, "Farther Along" uses the familiar tag, "We'll understand it all bye and bye."
We'll understand it better bye and bye was recorded in 1924 by Rorer Posey & The North Carolina Ramblers (Edison matrix N 455) but this version was not released.
BeantwoordenVerwijderencolonel snow
Hello Colonel.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI checked my Edison-lists. And I can't find a 1924 recording by Rorer Posey & The North Carolina Ramblers.
But on September 24, 1928 Posey Rorer & The North Carolina Ramblers did record 2 versions of "We'll understand it better bye and bye".
One had matrixnumber 18752 and the other N-455 (the one you mentioned). Both were unissued at the time.
I also checked my Country-bible by Tony Russell. In this book the above mentioned 2 recordings are also filed under the September 24, 1928 date.
I have made 2 copies, which I have added to the text above. Check it out.
Jopp greets
Probably my source is wrong. Information before 2003.
Verwijderencolonel snow