Better Git It In Your Soul
Gospel singing and preaching, rebuilt for a jazz band.
Charles Mingus, from Mingus Ah Um (1959)
- Written by
- Charles Mingus
- Released
- 1959
- Album
- Mingus Ah Um
The opening track of Mingus Ah Um is inspired by the gospel singing and preaching Mingus would have heard as a child. An earlier title for it was Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul, and a version called Better Git Hit in Your Soul appears on the live album Mingus at Antibes. Mingus revisited it on Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus in 1964. Davey Graham covered it on his album Folk, Blues and Beyond.
Covers and versions
- Davey Graham On Folk, Blues and Beyond.
More songs by Charles Mingus
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Fables of Faubus, Pithecanthropus Erectus, Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Sources
- Mingus Ah Um, Wikipedia
- Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Wikipedia
- Charles Mingus, Wikipedia