Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook (Spiral-bound)

by Peter Blood (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"This is the best, most exhilarating and glorious history of the United States: a singing history. It is more than a lovely songbook--it's a play-work-fight-freedom hymnal." --Studs Terkel, author, "Hope Dies Last
--This text refers to the Spiral-bound edition.

Product Description
This comprehensive collection has sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. It contains words and guitar chords to nearly 1200 songs, arranged in a compact, easy-to-use format for locating songs and working with groups. You won't find an array of songs like this anywhere else: 'Folk Revival' favorites popularized by Baez, Seeger, Collins, Peter, Paul & Mary, Dylan, Mitchell, Taylor, Donovan, and many others. * The best-known material of contemporary folk songwriters including Near, Staines, Williamson, Rogers, Bok and many more. * Broadway show tunes, Beatles songs, Motown hits * Hymns, spirituals, and gospel standards * Songs about peace, freedom, labor and the environment * Ballads, cowboy songs, shanties and blues

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 288 pages
• Publisher: Sing Out Publications (August 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962670472
• ISBN-13: 978-0962670473
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #53,060 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Latest edition correct tiny flaw, July 28, 2000

By	Paula Berman (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In my earlier review here, I gushed about how great this songbook, but added a wish that the songs be indexed by author. In this current edition, that wish has been granted, helping me notice a few songs I'd overlooked before.

Again, this is the best collection of songs you can actually sing, with guitar chords that usually work pretty well (occasional problems there may be in my skill level, not in the book!) There's no current Top 40 (there is some Motown) but these are the songs people have heard and sung and relaxed with and fought with and cried with and fallen in love with.....and been made to think with.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Own For All, December 3, 1999

By	Adam (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews

This is the song book to end all song books, with the words to every song you ever sang at camp, with friends, at your place of worship, or with your school chorus. Each one of these songs are precious gems,which makes this book an invaluable treasure chest.Buy it and sing along and rise up singing!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My copy is falling apart from overuse, September 28, 1998

By	Paula Berman (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I browsed over to this section just becasue I need to replace my copy of Rise Up Singing. After several years of heavy use, mine is falling apart. I disagree with a previous writer, in that I think this book has a wide range of music, ranging from very old songs such as 'The Cutty Wren' and 'The Coventry Carol' to 1910s ('In the Good Old Summertime'), 1930s (Woody Guthrie), Motown, protest songs, and modern folk classics (several songs each from Stan Rogers, Bill Staines, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and on, and on...). Rise Up Singing owes some of its genes to Winds of the People, an older compilation (I think circulated by the Society of Friends) and it shows.It is certainly slanted more in the direction of those who wish to build a better world rather than those want to retain the status quo, but I find it fascinating to see how that status quo has changed, in protest songs from way back ('The Waulking Song') or about events from way back ('The Diggers') through the battles for universal suffrage and the labor songs of the 1930s and 40s, to problems of the present day. Plus, I just like to sing the songs. My only complaint is that, at least in my mid-1980s edition, the songs are not indexed by author.