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'How I Got Over' is one of the standard works in the Black gospel repetoire, just like 'Precious Lord, Take My Hand' by Thomas Dorsey, which has a Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_My_Hand%2C_Precious_Lord) of its own. It has been recorded by EVERY major Black gospel singer. If you examine Aretha Franklin's page and that of Mahalia Jackson, and follow the links to their CDs you will see this listed among both. On Mahalia's Wikipage it is listed among her best known songs, and until I created this page today, that link was dead. The song's significance to the American civil rights movement is evidenced by Mahalia Jackson's historic performance of it at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington (when Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous 'I Have A Dream' speech). Aretha Franklin gave a legendary performance of it on her landmark 'Amazing Grace' album. --Agriffinny 02:01, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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from time to time, someone comes and makes an edit that asserts this song was not written by Clara Ward, but by W. Herbert Brewster. the whole article is unsourced so idk, but enough people think it was brewster and not ward, that now i wonder who wrote it. -badmachine 23:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 19 November 2024

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How I Got OverHow I Got Over (song) – Roots album has several times more page views, no PTOPIC. New title should still have a hatnote, since the album has a title track, but additional disambiguation to How I Got Over (Clara Ward song) feels unnecessary. Mach61 20:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). 162 etc. (talk) 21:02, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@162 etc. since you removed this from RM/TR, please explain why you disagree with this proposal Mach61 22:00, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"How I Got Over" is one of the best-selling gospel songs of all time, and is in the National Recording Registry. WP:RMT is for uncontroversial moves, and this is not one of them. 162 etc. (talk) 23:48, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]