"Birmingham Sunday" is a song written by Richard Fariña and performed by both Fariña and also by his sister-in-law Joan Baez .[1][2][3] The subject matter is the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, by members of the Ku Klux Klan that killed four girls and injured 22 others.[4][5] The girls were Addie Mae Collins (14), Denise McNair (11), Carole Robertson (14), and Cynthia Wesley (14).[4][5]
The melody of the song comes from a traditional Scottish ballad named I Once Loved a Lass.[1]
Fariña's version was released on the Elektra LP Singer Songwriter Project in 1965, while Baez's version was released on her 1964 Vanguard album Joan Baez/5,[3] and was used as the theme song of the 1997 Spike Lee documentary about the bombing, 4 Little Girls.[6]
The song was covered by Rhiannon Giddens on her 2017 album Freedom Highway,[7] and by Tom Paxton and Anne Hills on Under American Skies.
^ ab"JOAN BAEZ SINGS AT FOREST HILLS; Folk Music Artist Appears in Duet With Bob Dylan". The New York Times. August 10, 1964. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
^"Birmingham Sunday - song by Richard Farina". Spotify. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
^ ab"Joan Baez 5 - Bonus Track Version - Album by Joan Baez". Apple Music. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
^ ab"Birmingham Sunday". The New York Times. September 14, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
^ ab"1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Fast Facts". CNN. October 1, 2020. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
^"'Four Little Girls': Still Reeling From the Day Death Came to Birmingham". The New York Times. July 9, 1997. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
^"Freedom Highway - Album by Rhiannon Giddens". Apple Music. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
"BirminghamSunday" is a song written by Richard Fariña and performed by both Fariña and also by his sister-in-law Joan Baez . The subject matter is the...
media training. Birmingham has several major local newspapers – the daily Birmingham Mail and the weekly Birmingham Post and Sunday Mercury, all owned...
Brown, who is also editor-in-chief of the Birmingham Post, the Sunday Mercury, and their sister website BirminghamLive. A former editor is Marc Reeves, and...
Sunday Mercury is a Sunday tabloid published in Birmingham, UK, and now owned by Reach plc. The first edition was published on 29 December 1918. The first...
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter...
Sunday 2 October Reform UK - Birmingham - Sunday 2 October Conservatives - International Convention Centre, Birmingham - Sunday 2 October to Wednesday 5 October...
bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist...
Academy Award for Best Documentary. The events inspired the 1964 song "BirminghamSunday" by Richard and Mimi Fariña, which was used in the opening sequence...
starting to form around England: the Watford Sunday League was founded in 1955, the South BirminghamSunday League in 1957, the Wolverhampton & District...
in London and was homeschooled from the age of 14 before returning to Birmingham when she was 17. Her family struggled financially; Jessie described the...
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821...
expiring on 4 February. It was then announced on 3 February that Taking Back Sunday and Enter Shikari will headline the 2 day festival over 2 venues by Kerrang...
The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern...
Survival Sunday is a term used to refer to final day coverage of the Premier League in England. The phrase is primarily used by Sky Sports, when relegation...
The Birmingham Youth Cup (Saturday & Sunday Combined) is a defunct cup competition which was run by the Birmingham County F.A for football teams that competed...
The "Letter from Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on...
2023 Badminton: Li Shifeng and An Se-young win singles finals in Birmingham - Sunday 19 March 2023". Olympics.com. 20 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023...
The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub...
east of Birmingham. It is on the Rugby–Birmingham–Stafford line 14 km (8.7 mi) east of Birmingham New Street railway station. BHI serves Birmingham Airport...
Global Information