Children Go Where I Send Thee (1936) (Traditional)

Read the Originals about this song

As you can see and hear below, there are older recordings of the song than mentioned on the Originals site. I found some nice older recordings.
The oldest recording you can find on "Guitar Evangelists" 1928 - 1951 

Here some information from Wikipedia.
"Children, Go Where I Send Thee" is a traditional African-American spiritual song, as well as a cumulative song. This song is also known as "The Holy Baby" or "Born in Bethlehem." There are many versions of this song, the lyrics below were collected by Jean Ritchie from a school for black children in Kentucky. The verses give a Biblical meaning to each number.
This song has been performed by Joe and Eddie, Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nina Simone, Natalie Merchant, as well as by The Weavers, The Kingston Trio, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Peter, Paul and Mary, Ricky Skaggs,Ralph Stanley, The Burns Sisters, Linda Randall, Mandisa, the National Christian Choir, Johnny Cash, Mahalia Jackson, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Audra McDonald, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Southern Rail, Tina Liza Jones, Hall and Oates, REO Speedwagon, The J.B.s,and Kelsea Morton, Kenny Burrell, and Little Big Town.

And here information from the "Traditional Ballad"index.

DESCRIPTION: Cumulative song: "Children, go where I send thee. How shall I send thee? I'm gonna send thee one by one, One for the little bitty baby...." Add "Two by two, two for Paul and Silas" on up to "Twelve for the Twelve Apostles."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1936 (recording, Dennis Crampton & Robert Summers)
KEYWORDS: Bible religious Jesus cumulative nonballad
FOUND IN: US(Ap)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Lomax-FSNA 254, "The Holy Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Ritchie-SingFam, pp. 163-164, 195, "[Children, Go Where I Send Thee]" (2 texts, 1 tune)
Ritchie-Southern, p. 54, "Little Bitty Baby (Children Go Where I Send Thee)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 754, "Holy Babe" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber-FSWB, p. 383, "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" (1 text)
DT, GOSEND
Roud #133
RECORDINGS:
Alphabetical Four, "Go Where I Send Thee" (Decca 7704, 1940; on AlphabFour01)
Dennis Crampton & Robert Summers, "Go I'll Send Thee" (ARC 6-10-62, 1936)
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, "Go Where I Send Thee" (Bluebird B-7340, 1937; Victor 20-2134, 1947)
Kelley Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Matthew Johnson & Paul Hayes, "Holy Babe" (AFS 3803 A2+B, 1942; on LC10)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You)" (theme and structure)
cf. "Eleven to Heaven" (theme and structure)
NOTES: This could well be an American version of "Green Grow the Rushes-O" (Roud naturally lumps those two and several others). But it's easy to create songs such as this one; in the absence of certainty, I treat them as separate. See also the notes on that song. - RBW


Here are Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers


Here are some other recordings.



01 - Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers - Go I'll Send Thee - 1936                                                                                                          
02 - Golden Gate Quartet - Go Where I Send Thee - 1937                                                                                                                   
03 - Jubilee Quartet - Holy Baby, the - 1939                                                                                                                           
04 - Alphabetical Four - Go Where I Send Thee - 1940                                                                                                                        
05 - Magnolia Five - Holy Baby - 1941                                                                                                                                    
06 - Kelley Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Matthew Johnson, Paul Hayes - Holy Babe - 1942                                                                                     
07 - The Weavers - One For the Little Bitty Baby (Go Where I Send Thee) - 1951                                                                                            
08 - Rev.Gary Davis - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 1952                                                                                                                
09 - Odetta - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 1954                                                                                                                         
10 - Nina Simone - Children Go Where I Send you - 1959                                                                                                                        
11 - Sunny Terry & Brownie Mcghee - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 1960                                                                                                     
12 - Cisco Houston - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 1965                                                                                                                    
13 - Peter, Paul & Mary - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 1988                                                                                                              
14 - Natalie Merchant - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 1997                                                                                                                  
15 - Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Children, Go Where I Send Thee (With Audra Mcdonald) - 2006    
16 - Nick Lowe - Children Go Where I Send Thee - 2013