
Paul Robeson - Paul Robeson - Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings (CD)
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Paul Robeson - Paul Robeson - Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings (CD)
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Paul Robeson—African-American bass-baritone, stage and film actor, All-American football player, lawyer, and advocate for civil rights—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 artist’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 recordings—as well as his complete historic New York and London recitals from 1958—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
TRACK LIST
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
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