Paul Robesonâ€”African-American bass-baritone, stage and film actor, All-American football player, lawyer, and advocate for civil rightsâ€”was outspoken against racism, colonialism, and social injustice. Rutgers graduate, scholar of world cultures, and speaker of more than 20 languages, he worked tirelessly to break down political and racial barriers, and to build bridges between the peoples of this world. However, with the advent of the Cold War and the Red Scare following World War II, the political climate changed. Doors began to close for Robeson as concert halls and radio stations shut him out. In July 1950, the US State Department revoked the blacklisted artistâ€™s passport thus preventing him from pursuing his successful international career as a singer and actor. But international audiences continued to honor and call out for him, and he found technologically advanced and effective ways to reach his communities all over the world.

Today, his remarkable voice and unrivaled stage presence live on in sound recordings and films. This 14-CD edition is the first ever release of his complete Columbia, Victor, and HMV recordings from 1925 to 1947. All of his American recordings have been meticulously restored from the original master discs and tapes, and 25 studio recordingsâ€”as well as his complete historic New York and London recitals from 1958â€”are here presented for the first time on CD. The richly illustrated 160-page book, with essays by Shana L. Redmond and Susan Robeson, pays tribute to a cultural icon of the 20th century.

Tracklist:

Were You There? (When They Crucified my Lord) (2024 Remastered Version)
Steal Away (2024 Remastered Version)
Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
Joshua fit the Battle ob Jericho (2024 Remastered Version)
Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load) (2024 Remastered Version)
Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
Li'l Gal (2024 Remastered Version)
I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
On Ma Journey (2024 Remastered Version)
Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (2024 Remastered Version)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
Down de Lover's Lane (2024 Remastered Version)
Hear, de Lam's a-Cryin' (2024 Remastered Version)
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
Deep River (2024 Remastered Version)
I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles (2024 Remastered Version)
I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
Ballad for Americans (2024 Remastered Version)
I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
Since You Went Away "Seems Lak To Me"
Down De Lover's Lane
Scandalize My Name
Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
Weepin' Mary
I Want to Be Ready
My Lord What a Mornin'
De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
Git on Board Li'l Children
Dere's No Hidin' Place
Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
Oh! Rock Me Julie
Oh, Didn't It Rain
Mammy
Roll Away, Clouds (From "Virginia")
Sonny Boy (From the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
Little Pal (From "Say It with Songs")
The Lonesome Road
Just Keepin' On
Mighty Lak' a Rose
Mammy is Gone
Hail De Crown
Exhortation
I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring dem Bells
Go Down Moses
High Water
Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"
Poor Old Joe
My Old Kentucky Home
Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River"
River Stay 'way from My Door
Rockin' Chair
Medley of Spirituals
My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
The Folks I Used to Know
Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")
Lil' Gal
Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
That's Why Darkies Were Born (From "George White's Scandals of 1931")
When It's Sleepy Time Down South (From the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
Seekin'
Nearer, My God, to Thee
There is a Green Hill Far Away
Mah Lindy Lou
Ma Curly-Headed Babby
Pilgrim's Song
Roll the Old Chariot Along
Since You Went Away
Wid De Moon Moon Moon
Got the South in My Soul
Hush-a-bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
Round the Bend of the Road
Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
On Ma Journey
Bye and Bye - I'm Goin' to Lay Down dis Heavy Load
Were You There?
Swing Along!
Piccaninny Shoes
In a Narrow Street
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
Lazy Bones
Blue Prelude
Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
Medley I, Pt. 2: Carry me Back - Mighty Lak' a Rose - Round the Bend of the Road - River Stay 'Way From my Door - O'l Man River
Fat Li'l Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
Short'nin' Bread
Snowball
Water Boy
Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
Steal Away
Scarecrow
Wagon Wheels
So Shy
Piccaninny Slumber Song
St. Louis Blues
Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin'
Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. The Banjo Song
Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green
Love Song (From "Sanders of the River")
Congo Lullaby (From "Sanders of the River")
Canoe Song (From "Sanders of the River")
Killing Song (From "Sanders of the River")
Shenandoah
Jes' Mah Song
De Ole Ark's A-Movering
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Honey, Dat's All
Gloomy Sunday "Hungarian Suicide Song"
Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
Ah Still Suits Me (From "Show Boat")
Sleepy River (From "Song of Freedom")
Lonely Road (From "Song of Freedom")
Song of Freedom (From "Song of Freedom")
The Black Emperor (From "Song of Freedom")
Mam'selle Marie
Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
Oh! No John!
Passing By: "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
Hammer Song
Li'l David
My Way (From "Jericho")
Golden River (From "Jericho")
The Wagon Song "Ho! Ho!" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
The Mountain Song "Climbing up" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
Lazin' (From "Big Fella")
I Don't Know What's Wrong (From "Big Fella")
Roll up Sailorman (From "Big Fella")
You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (From "Big Fella")
Deep Desert (From "Jericho")
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Minstrel Man
The Wanderer
Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
No More Auction Block
Work All de Summer
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Silent Night, Holy Night
All Through the Night
Solitude
Mood Indigo
Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
It Take a Long Pull to Get There (From "Porgy and Bess")
It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (From "Porgy and Bess")
7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose:
Just A-Wearyin' For You
At Dawning
Song of the Volga Boatmen
An Eriskay Love-Lilt
Encantadora Maria
Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
Every Time I Feel de Spirit
Lay Down Late
Forgotten in E-Flat Minor
David of the White Rock
Trees
Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
Loch Lomond
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
Down de Lovers' Lane
Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
O Thou Silent Night
The Little Black Boy (From "Songs of Innocence")
Dear Old Southland
Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
The Blind Ploughman
The Cobbler's Song (From "Chu Chin Chow - A Musical Tale of the East)
Oh, Could I But Express in Song
Love At My Heart
Nothin'
The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
A Perfect Day
Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song
Oh Promise Me (From "Robin Hood")
Plaisir d'amour
Sylvia
She is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
Thora
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)
Ebenezer "Ton-y Botel"
Land of My Fathers
Deep River
Lord God of Abraham - Baal Chorus (From "Elijah")
Quiet Flows the Don: From Border to Border (2024 Remastered Version)
Quiet Flows the Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (2024 Remastered Version)
No for an Answer: The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birhday Song) (2024 Remastered Version)
Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
The Peat-Bog Soldiers (2024 Remastered Version)
The Four Insurgent Generals - Spanish Folk Song (2024 Remastered Version)
Song of the Plains "Meadowland" (2024 Remastered Version)
Native Land "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" (2024 Remastered

UPC: 194399774526
Label: Sony Classics
Release Date: 8.30.24
Format: CD

Paul Robeson - Paul Robeson - Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings (CD)