Paul Robeson and His Time

Today we listen to Robeson sing timeless protest songs and classic numbers from Hammerstein & Kern’s 1927 musical Show Boat and Gershwin’s 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Also, performances from Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes, including German lieder and Afrian-American spirituals.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-paul-robeson-said-77742433/

Read about spirituals here: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197495/

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-performance-porgy-and-bess

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Paul Robeson, “The House I Live In”

from Songs of Free Men

Sony Classical - 1942

Victor Young, “Overture”

from Naxos Musicals: Show Boat

Naxos - 2005

Paul Robeson, “Ol' Man River”

from Naxos Musicals: Show BoatPaul Robeson

Naxos - 2005

Paul Robeson, “Balm In Gilead”

from Songs of Free Men

Sony Classical - 1942

Paul Robeson, “Medley of Spirituals”

from The Ultimate Collection

Burning Fire - 2009

Marian Anderson, “Soon-a Will Be Done”

from Spirituals

RCA Red Seal - 1999

Bill Landford & The Landfordaires, “Trouble Of This World”

from The Ladykillers Soundtrack

DMZ/Columbia/Sony - 2004

Marian Anderson, “If He Change My Name”

from Spirituals

RCA Red Seal - 1999

Roland Hayes, “Ezekiel saw de wheel”

from The Art Of Roland Hayes

Preiser Records - 2009

Roland Hayes, “Were you there”

from The Art Of Roland Hayes

Preiser Records - 2009

Paul Robeson, “Summertime”

from Ballad for Americans

Long Road - 2007

Paul Robeson & Elisabeth Welch, “Ah Still Suits Me”

from Naxos Musical: Show Boat

Naxos - 2005

Leontyne Price & William Warfield, “Act I: Scene III”

from Porgy & Bess

Audite - 2008

Paul Robeson, “Old Man River”

from Live At Carnegie Hall, 1958

Vanguard Records - 2006

Paul Robeson, “A Woman Is a Sometime Thing”

from The Very Best of Paul Robeson

Fantastic Voyage - 2009

Paul Robeson, “All Through the Night”

from All Through the Night

Digital Revival - 2016

Paul Robeson, “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”

from Ballad for Americans

Long Road - 2007

Mahalia Jackson, “Trouble of the World”

from Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns

Columbia/Legacy

Nappy Roots, “Trouble Of This World”

from The Ladykillers Soundtrack

DMZ/Columbia/Sony - 2004

Paul Robeson, “Go Down Moses”

from Paul Robeson

Yesteryears - 2011

Paul Robeson, “Ballad for Americans”

from Ballad for Americans

Long Road - 2007

Paul Robeson, “Got the South In My Soul”

from The Ultimate Collection

Burning Fire - 2009

Marian Anderson, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (Recorded 1951) [2021 Remastered Version]”

from Marian Anderson Performing Songs and Mélodies (2021 Remastered Version)

RCA Red Seal - 2021

Marian Anderson, “4 Lieder, Op. 27: No. 4, Morgen! (Remastered 2021)”

from Marian Anderson Performing Songs by Schubert & Schumann & Brahms & Strauss & Haydn (2021 Remastered Version)

RCA Red Seal - 1939

Roland Hayes, “Nacht und Träume”

from The Art Of Roland Hayes

Preiser Records - 2009

Roland Hayes, “He never said a mumberlin´ word”

from The Art Of Roland Hayes

Preiser Records - 2009

Paul Robeson, “Shenandoah”

from Ol' Man River - His 25 Greatest (Remastered)

Living Era - 1998

Rose Stone (feat. The Venice Four & The Abbott Kinney Lighthouse Choir), “Trouble Of This World”

from The Ladykillers Soundtrack

DMz/Columbia/Sony