> Folk Music > Records > Paul Robeson's Transatlantic Concert
Paul Robeson's Transatlantic Concert
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Paul Robeson's Transatlantic Concert Topic Records 10T17 (10" LP, UK, 1957) |
As Paul Robeson was refused a passport to travel to Europe, the concert
on side 1 was performed live in a studio in New York on May 16, 1957,
and broadcast to the audience at St Pancras Town Hall, London;
Side 2 is a studio recording.
Musicians
Paul Robeson, vocals;
Winifred Harrison, piano (side 1);
Alan Booth, piano (side 2)
Tracks
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Track 1 Negro convict song;
Track 3 Franz Schubert;
Track 4 trad. Welsh song;
Track 6 Jermome Kern;
Track 7 George H. Clutsam;
Track 8 Salvator Rosa;
Track 9 Bedřich Smetana;
Track 10 Jewish lullaby, arr. Brown;
Track 12 Negro anti-slavery song, arr. Brown
> Folk Music > Records > Paul Robeson: Robeson's Here!
Paul Robeson: Robeson's Here!
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Robeson's Here! Topic Records TOP32 (EP, UK, 1958) |
Musicians
Paul Robeson, vocals;
Alan Booth, piano
Tracks
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Track 1 words Arms Fisher, music largo from Antonin Dvorak's Symphony “From the New World”;
Track 2 words Alfred Tennyson, music Roger Quilter;
Track 3 words trad. Hebridaen, music Margaret Kennedy-Fraser;
Track 4 George H. Clutsam
> Folk Music > Records > Paul Robeson: Freedom Songs
Paul Robeson: Freedom Songs
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Freedom Songs Topic Records TOP62 (EP, UK, 1961) |
Musicians
Paul Robeson, vocals;
Alan Booth, piano
Tracks
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Track 1 words A. Hayes, music Earl Robinson;
Track 2 words anon., music Gubutik;
Track 3 words William Blake, music H. Parry;
Track 4 arr. Waldemar Hille;
Track 5 music Nien Erh
Review
This review is from Gramophone, June 1961:
I see that Topic, the label mostly concerned with raw folk material, has issued two EPs of Paul Robeson (TOP62 and 63) in Freedom Songs and Songs of Liberty (notice the nice differentiation!) in the course of which he sings in English, Yiddish, Polish, Norwegian and Chinese, and on TOP60, Stan Kelly, variously accompanied by accordion, guitar or piano by Leon Rosselson, plunges us back into the grim Victorian era with bitter cynical humour against landlords. It doesn't need great powers of perception to determine the political colours of these performances, which seem to me to be rather out-of-date in the Affluent Society and the Welfare State; I prefer my Robeson, too, when he is not singing about workers marching for freedom and that sort of thing. There is no denying the majesty, if I may use the term in this connection, of his voice, however; at 63, it is as resonant and masterly as ever.
> Folk Music > Records > Paul Robeson: Songs of Liberty
Paul Robeson: Songs of Liberty
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Songs of Liberty Topic Records TOP63 (EP, UK, 1961) |
Musicians
Paul Robeson, vocals;
Alan Booth, piano
Tracks
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> Folk Music > Records > Paul Robeson: Kevin Barry / Ol' Man River
Paul Robeson: Kevin Barry / Ol' Man River
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Kevin Barry / Ol' Man River Topic Records STOP116 (single, UK, 1964) |
Musicians
Paul Robeson, vocals;
Winifred Harrison, piano
Tracks
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