Talk:Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Dead external links to Allmusic website – January 2011
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Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: song promoted to primary topic. Uncontested and entirely plausible. Favonian (talk) 10:13, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

– The song gives its name to all the uses listed on the dab page, only one of which (the Patti Page album, Just a Closer Walk with Thee (album)) actually has an article; the song's article has many more incoming links than the album article (discounting template transclusions), and, although the traffic counter tool seems to be down right now, I suspect the song gets several times more page visits than the album. The song should be returned to the plain title, with a hatnote pointing to the album & the dab page. Shelf Skewed  Talk  05:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Just a Closer Walk with Thee (song) → Just a Closer Walk with Thee
 * Just a Closer Walk with Thee → Just a Closer Walk with Thee (disambiguation)
 * Addition: The edit counter isn't working for this month's numbers, but I did look at past months. In January & February of this year, the song article got 3300+ page hits, while the album was in single digits.-- Shelf Skewed  Talk  06:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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History section
This section begins with the statement:

The precise author of "A Closer Walk" was unknown until recently.

But it goes on to discuss origins without ever actually identifying this so-called "recently known" author. Could someone who has stewardship of this page please edit as necessary to correct this lack of closure? Ed8r (talk) 14:57, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Origin of "Just A Closer Walk With Thee"
In 1925, Bessie Smith recorded a song called "Careless Love." W.C. Handy was credited as the author. The tune is exactly the same as "Just a Closer Walk." When I was growing up in the 40s and 50s near New Orleans, "Careless Love" was called the theme song of Mardi Gras. Later, in the 60s, I heard that "Just a Closer Walk" had become the theme song of Mardi Gras. Since "Closer Walk" was not recorded until 1941, I have to wonder if there is some connection. The lyrics of "Careless Love" are somewhat risqué as were a lot of the early blues songs. Thus, it is no surprise that"Closer Walk" got to be the theme rather than "Careless Love." 136.53.32.78 (talk) 00:10, 20 May 2022 (UTC)