I was “thumbing” through the electronic files from my original Folk Music Notebook (all of my original blog entries have been imported to this new blog at Sing Out! Magazine’s website) when I came across a story that stirred up some fond memories of my childhood, a movie, a song and the special man who wrote it.

Please click on the link below for a story about the late Jester Hairston, composer of the spiritual “Amen” which was used to great effect in the 1963 movie “Lillies of the Field”

CLICK :  “AMEN” and Jester Hairston