The Gift To Sing: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Gift To Sing, credited to James Weldon Johnson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Gift To Sing by James Weldon Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2019. Read in English by Algy Pug; Bruce Kachuk; Chris Pyle; Cornel Nemes; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Garth Burton; Greg Giordano; Graham Scott; James K. White; KevinS; Nan Dodge; NarratorJ; Sarah Hite; Phil Schempf; Tomas Peter; tovarisch; lslassor64; Anita Sloma-Martinez and Lee Ann Howlett. James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. James Weldon Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Gift To Sing
• Author credits: James Weldon Johnson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 22:01

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• nature
• philosophy

Track guide

1. 01 - The Gift To Sing - Read by ALP — 1:00
2. 02 - The Gift To Sing - Read by BK — 1:13
3. 03 - The Gift To Sing - Read by CLP — 0:54
4. 04 - The Gift To Sing - Read by CN — 1:35
5. 05 - The Gift To Sing - Read by DL — 1:02
6. 06 - The Gift To Sing - Read by EL — 1:19
7. 07 - The Gift To Sing - Read by GB — 1:11
8. 08 - The Gift To Sing - Read by GG — 1:05
9. 09 - The Gift To Sing - Read by GRS — 1:09
10. 10 - The Gift To Sing - Read by JKW — 1:05
11. 11 - The Gift To Sing - Read by KS — 1:05
12. 12 - The Gift To Sing - Read by ND — 1:01
13. 13 - The Gift To Sing - Read by NJ — 1:01
14. 14 - The Gift To Sing - Read by SH — 0:57
15. 15 - The Gift To Sing - Read by PS — 0:58
16. 16 - The Gift To Sing - Read by TP — 1:05
17. 17 - The Gift To Sing - Read by VB — 1:06
18. 18 - The Gift To Sing - Read by LSLR — 1:05
19. 19 - The Gift To Sing - Read by ASM — 1:02
20. 20 - The Gift To Sing - Read by LAH — 1:07

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