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FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 194399774526
GENRE: Classical • RECORD LABEL: Sony Classics
RELEASE DATE: 08/30/24

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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 - 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:

  1. Were You There? (When They Crucified my Lord) (2024 Remastered Version)
  2. Steal Away (2024 Remastered Version)
  3. Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
  4. Joshua fit the Battle ob Jericho (2024 Remastered Version)
  5. Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load) (2024 Remastered Version)
  6. Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
  7. Li'l Gal (2024 Remastered Version)
  8. I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
  9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
  10. On Ma Journey (2024 Remastered Version)
  11. Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (2024 Remastered Version)
  12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
  13. Down de Lover's Lane (2024 Remastered Version)
  14. Hear, de Lam's a-Cryin' (2024 Remastered Version)
  15. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
  16. Deep River (2024 Remastered Version)
  17. I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles (2024 Remastered Version)
  18. I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
  19. Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
  20. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
  21. Ballad for Americans (2024 Remastered Version)
  22. I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
  23. Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
  24. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
  25. Since You Went Away "Seems Lak To Me"
  26. Down De Lover's Lane
  27. Scandalize My Name
  28. Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
  29. Weepin' Mary
  30. I Want to Be Ready
  31. My Lord What a Mornin'
  32. De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
  33. Git on Board Li'l Children
  34. Dere's No Hidin' Place
  35. Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
  36. Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
  37. Oh! Rock Me Julie
  38. Oh, Didn't It Rain
  39. Mammy
  40. Roll Away, Clouds (From "Virginia")
  41. Sonny Boy (From the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
  42. Little Pal (From "Say It with Songs")
  43. The Lonesome Road
  44. Just Keepin' On
  45. Mighty Lak' a Rose
  46. Mammy is Gone
  47. Hail De Crown
  48. Exhortation
  49. I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring dem Bells
  50. Go Down Moses
  51. High Water
  52. Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"
  53. Poor Old Joe
  54. My Old Kentucky Home
  55. Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River"
  56. River Stay 'way from My Door
  57. Rockin' Chair
  58. Medley of Spirituals
  59. My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
  60. The Folks I Used to Know
  61. Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")
  62. Lil' Gal
  63. Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
  64. That's Why Darkies Were Born (From "George White's Scandals of 1931")
  65. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (From the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
  66. Seekin'
  67. Nearer, My God, to Thee
  68. There is a Green Hill Far Away
  69. Mah Lindy Lou
  70. Ma Curly-Headed Babby
  71. Pilgrim's Song
  72. Roll the Old Chariot Along
  73. Since You Went Away
  74. Wid De Moon Moon Moon
  75. Got the South in My Soul
  76. Hush-a-bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
  77. Round the Bend of the Road
  78. Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
  79. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  80. On Ma Journey
  81. Bye and Bye - I'm Goin' to Lay Down dis Heavy Load
  82. Were You There?
  83. Swing Along!
  84. Piccaninny Shoes
  85. In a Narrow Street
  86. Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
  87. Lazy Bones
  88. Blue Prelude
  89. Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
  90. 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
  91. Fat Li'l Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
  92. Short'nin' Bread
  93. Snowball
  94. Water Boy
  95. Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
  96. Steal Away
  97. Scarecrow
  98. Wagon Wheels
  99. So Shy
  100. Piccaninny Slumber Song
  101. St. Louis Blues
  102. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
  103. Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
  104. I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin'
  105. Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. The Banjo Song
  106. Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green
  107. Love Song (From "Sanders of the River")
  108. Congo Lullaby (From "Sanders of the River")
  109. Canoe Song (From "Sanders of the River")
  110. Killing Song (From "Sanders of the River")
  111. Shenandoah
  112. Jes' Mah Song
  113. De Ole Ark's A-Movering
  114. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
  115. Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
  116. Honey, Dat's All
  117. Gloomy Sunday "Hungarian Suicide Song"
  118. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
  119. Ah Still Suits Me (From "Show Boat")
  120. Sleepy River (From "Song of Freedom")
  121. Lonely Road (From "Song of Freedom")
  122. Song of Freedom (From "Song of Freedom")
  123. The Black Emperor (From "Song of Freedom")
  124. Mam'selle Marie
  125. Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
  126. Oh! No John!
  127. Passing By: "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
  128. Hammer Song
  129. Li'l David
  130. My Way (From "Jericho")
  131. Golden River (From "Jericho")
  132. The Wagon Song "Ho! Ho!" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
  133. The Mountain Song "Climbing up" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
  134. Lazin' (From "Big Fella")
  135. I Don't Know What's Wrong (From "Big Fella")
  136. Roll up Sailorman (From "Big Fella")
  137. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (From "Big Fella")
  138. Deep Desert (From "Jericho")
  139. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  140. Minstrel Man
  141. The Wanderer
  142. Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
  143. No More Auction Block
  144. Work All de Summer
  145. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
  146. Silent Night, Holy Night
  147. All Through the Night
  148. Solitude
  149. Mood Indigo
  150. Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
  151. It Take a Long Pull to Get There (From "Porgy and Bess")
  152. It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
  153. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (From "Porgy and Bess")
  154. 7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose:
  155. Just A-Wearyin' For You
  156. At Dawning
  157. Song of the Volga Boatmen
  158. An Eriskay Love-Lilt
  159. Encantadora Maria
  160. Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
  161. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
  162. Lay Down Late
  163. Forgotten in E-Flat Minor
  164. David of the White Rock
  165. Trees
  166. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
  167. Loch Lomond
  168. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
  169. Down de Lovers' Lane
  170. Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
  171. O Thou Silent Night
  172. The Little Black Boy (From "Songs of Innocence")
  173. Dear Old Southland
  174. Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
  175. The Blind Ploughman
  176. The Cobbler's Song (From "Chu Chin Chow - A Musical Tale of the East)
  177. Oh, Could I But Express in Song
  178. Love At My Heart
  179. Nothin'
  180. The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
  181. A Perfect Day
  182. Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
  183. Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song
  184. Oh Promise Me (From "Robin Hood")
  185. Plaisir d'amour
  186. Sylvia
  187. She is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
  188. Thora
  189. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  190. Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)
  191. Ebenezer "Ton-y Botel"
  192. Land of My Fathers
  193. Deep River
  194. Lord God of Abraham - Baal Chorus (From "Elijah")
  195. Quiet Flows the Don: From Border to Border (2024 Remastered Version)
  196. Quiet Flows the Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (2024 Remastered Version)
  197. No for an Answer: The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birhday Song) (2024 Remastered Version)
  198. Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
  199. The Peat-Bog Soldiers (2024 Remastered Version)
  200. The Four Insurgent Generals - Spanish Folk Song (2024 Remastered Version)
  201. Song of the Plains "Meadowland" (2024 Remastered Version)
  202. Native Land "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" (2024 Remastered

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

TRACK LIST

Tracklist:

  1. Were You There? (When They Crucified my Lord) (2024 Remastered Version)
  2. Steal Away (2024 Remastered Version)
  3. Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
  4. Joshua fit the Battle ob Jericho (2024 Remastered Version)
  5. Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load) (2024 Remastered Version)
  6. Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
  7. Li'l Gal (2024 Remastered Version)
  8. I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
  9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
  10. On Ma Journey (2024 Remastered Version)
  11. Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (2024 Remastered Version)
  12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
  13. Down de Lover's Lane (2024 Remastered Version)
  14. Hear, de Lam's a-Cryin' (2024 Remastered Version)
  15. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
  16. Deep River (2024 Remastered Version)
  17. I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles (2024 Remastered Version)
  18. I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
  19. Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
  20. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
  21. Ballad for Americans (2024 Remastered Version)
  22. I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
  23. Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
  24. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
  25. Since You Went Away "Seems Lak To Me"
  26. Down De Lover's Lane
  27. Scandalize My Name
  28. Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
  29. Weepin' Mary
  30. I Want to Be Ready
  31. My Lord What a Mornin'
  32. De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
  33. Git on Board Li'l Children
  34. Dere's No Hidin' Place
  35. Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
  36. Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
  37. Oh! Rock Me Julie
  38. Oh, Didn't It Rain
  39. Mammy
  40. Roll Away, Clouds (From "Virginia")
  41. Sonny Boy (From the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
  42. Little Pal (From "Say It with Songs")
  43. The Lonesome Road
  44. Just Keepin' On
  45. Mighty Lak' a Rose
  46. Mammy is Gone
  47. Hail De Crown
  48. Exhortation
  49. I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring dem Bells
  50. Go Down Moses
  51. High Water
  52. Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"
  53. Poor Old Joe
  54. My Old Kentucky Home
  55. Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River"
  56. River Stay 'way from My Door
  57. Rockin' Chair
  58. Medley of Spirituals
  59. My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
  60. The Folks I Used to Know
  61. Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")
  62. Lil' Gal
  63. Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
  64. That's Why Darkies Were Born (From "George White's Scandals of 1931")
  65. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (From the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
  66. Seekin'
  67. Nearer, My God, to Thee
  68. There is a Green Hill Far Away
  69. Mah Lindy Lou
  70. Ma Curly-Headed Babby
  71. Pilgrim's Song
  72. Roll the Old Chariot Along
  73. Since You Went Away
  74. Wid De Moon Moon Moon
  75. Got the South in My Soul
  76. Hush-a-bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
  77. Round the Bend of the Road
  78. Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
  79. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  80. On Ma Journey
  81. Bye and Bye - I'm Goin' to Lay Down dis Heavy Load
  82. Were You There?
  83. Swing Along!
  84. Piccaninny Shoes
  85. In a Narrow Street
  86. Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
  87. Lazy Bones
  88. Blue Prelude
  89. Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
  90. 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
  91. Fat Li'l Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
  92. Short'nin' Bread
  93. Snowball
  94. Water Boy
  95. Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
  96. Steal Away
  97. Scarecrow
  98. Wagon Wheels
  99. So Shy
  100. Piccaninny Slumber Song
  101. St. Louis Blues
  102. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
  103. Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
  104. I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin'
  105. Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. The Banjo Song
  106. Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green
  107. Love Song (From "Sanders of the River")
  108. Congo Lullaby (From "Sanders of the River")
  109. Canoe Song (From "Sanders of the River")
  110. Killing Song (From "Sanders of the River")
  111. Shenandoah
  112. Jes' Mah Song
  113. De Ole Ark's A-Movering
  114. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
  115. Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
  116. Honey, Dat's All
  117. Gloomy Sunday "Hungarian Suicide Song"
  118. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
  119. Ah Still Suits Me (From "Show Boat")
  120. Sleepy River (From "Song of Freedom")
  121. Lonely Road (From "Song of Freedom")
  122. Song of Freedom (From "Song of Freedom")
  123. The Black Emperor (From "Song of Freedom")
  124. Mam'selle Marie
  125. Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
  126. Oh! No John!
  127. Passing By: "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
  128. Hammer Song
  129. Li'l David
  130. My Way (From "Jericho")
  131. Golden River (From "Jericho")
  132. The Wagon Song "Ho! Ho!" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
  133. The Mountain Song "Climbing up" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
  134. Lazin' (From "Big Fella")
  135. I Don't Know What's Wrong (From "Big Fella")
  136. Roll up Sailorman (From "Big Fella")
  137. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (From "Big Fella")
  138. Deep Desert (From "Jericho")
  139. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  140. Minstrel Man
  141. The Wanderer
  142. Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
  143. No More Auction Block
  144. Work All de Summer
  145. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
  146. Silent Night, Holy Night
  147. All Through the Night
  148. Solitude
  149. Mood Indigo
  150. Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
  151. It Take a Long Pull to Get There (From "Porgy and Bess")
  152. It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
  153. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (From "Porgy and Bess")
  154. 7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose:
  155. Just A-Wearyin' For You
  156. At Dawning
  157. Song of the Volga Boatmen
  158. An Eriskay Love-Lilt
  159. Encantadora Maria
  160. Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
  161. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
  162. Lay Down Late
  163. Forgotten in E-Flat Minor
  164. David of the White Rock
  165. Trees
  166. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
  167. Loch Lomond
  168. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
  169. Down de Lovers' Lane
  170. Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
  171. O Thou Silent Night
  172. The Little Black Boy (From "Songs of Innocence")
  173. Dear Old Southland
  174. Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
  175. The Blind Ploughman
  176. The Cobbler's Song (From "Chu Chin Chow - A Musical Tale of the East)
  177. Oh, Could I But Express in Song
  178. Love At My Heart
  179. Nothin'
  180. The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
  181. A Perfect Day
  182. Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
  183. Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song
  184. Oh Promise Me (From "Robin Hood")
  185. Plaisir d'amour
  186. Sylvia
  187. She is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
  188. Thora
  189. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  190. Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)
  191. Ebenezer "Ton-y Botel"
  192. Land of My Fathers
  193. Deep River
  194. Lord God of Abraham - Baal Chorus (From "Elijah")
  195. Quiet Flows the Don: From Border to Border (2024 Remastered Version)
  196. Quiet Flows the Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (2024 Remastered Version)
  197. No for an Answer: The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birhday Song) (2024 Remastered Version)
  198. Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
  199. The Peat-Bog Soldiers (2024 Remastered Version)
  200. The Four Insurgent Generals - Spanish Folk Song (2024 Remastered Version)
  201. Song of the Plains "Meadowland" (2024 Remastered Version)
  202. Native Land "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" (2024 Remastered

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