“Mary, Don’t You Weep”: the Life of a Song | Studio 360 | WNYC

In 1957, Reverend Claude Jeter wrote an arrangement of “Mary, Don’t You Weep” for his gospel ensemble, the Swan Silvertones. “Mary, Don’t You Weep” had been around as a spiritual since before the civil war, and gospel quartets had performed it before, but Jeter’s version took on a life of its own. …