Paul Robeson

Subject: Paul Robeson
From: GUEST,ifor
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 12:37 PM

Although Paul Robeson was not a folk singer as such he was a massive inspirational singer of wonderful songs such as Joe Hill and had an influence on many in the 1960s folk song revival.
There is a major exhibition of his life and work in the new National Maritime Museum in Swansea which is well worth seeing.Very moving.
Does anyone now the title of the album he recorded in Russia after the war?
Ifor

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: alanabit
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:03 PM

If Paul Robeson was not a folk singer, I don't know who was.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 02:16 PM

Like Enrico Caruso, who made Neapolitan songs high art.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: oldhippie
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 06:03 PM

I don't know the Russian album, but two recordings from Canada "The Great Peace Arch Concerts" are on FolkEra CD FE1442CD. The concerts are from May 1952 and August 1953. Great stuff!

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: artbrooks
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 06:15 PM

There is something called The Moscow Concert, I think...but I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 06:36 PM

Amazon.ca (Canada) lists only "Roll Away Clouds" (out of stock).
Amazon.com has three, but not the titles listed above.
Try Amazon in the UK; may have titles not or no longer available in the USA.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 08:11 PM

It'd be a shame if his recordings aren't available anymore. He was a man of all kinds of talents and faults, but his incredible voice and love of his music should never be forgotten. Whenever my choir leaders want us (EXTREMELY white) choristers to sing some song in African American vernacular, I always object, because Robeson sang the traditional sogs with such superb diction.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: ragdall
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 11:05 PM

I found this album, http://www.panartist.com/paulrobeson.htm
The title appears to be "Paul Robeson Live at Tchaikovsky Hall 1949"

rags

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 05:13 AM

Paul Robeson not a folksinger ? yeah him and Leadbelly both.

eric

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Susan of DT
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 07:56 AM

I have two of his records on the Everest label: American Baladeer (#3417) and A Man and His Beliefs (#3291)

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 09:14 AM

THE Paul Robeson? Not a folk singer? When did that happen?

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: oldhippie
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 07:38 AM

the "Peace Arch Concerts" CD is available online @ cdbaby.com, so I guess its still in print.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 11:03 AM

Two in-print CDs of Robeson (who, BTW, was admitted into the College Football Hall of Fame a few years back) are "Peace Arch Concert" and "Freedom Train", both available from CAMSCO.
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Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:09 PM

He was both an art singer AND a folk singer. He preserved music from memory and transmitted it orally, AND he worked from sheet music in more classical forms.

I don't understand why it's so simple to see and respect that in an artist with the passage of time, but so hard to see in ourselves and in one another.

Paul Robeson is an example of the people I referred to in a recent thread about where we got the spirituals we know of today, where I listed categories of source types.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 01:35 PM

I've always found rather moving the special affection the miners of the Welsh coalfields had for Robeson. When he was being vilified by the witchhunters at home, the men of the valleys took him to their hearts, and even today you'll find find old men going misty-eyed at memories of hearing him and his beautiful voice.
I would dearly love to see the Swansea exhibition.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Effsee
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 02:38 PM

In 1957 Paul Robeson sung by telephone to a concert in Porthcrawl in Wales because the US government had taken away his passport. He also performed to a Canadian audience, with them standing on one side of the border and he on the other!

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Effsee
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 02:42 PM

Oops ! Meant to include this info:-
Paul Robeson - The Freedom Train and the Welsh Transatlantic Concert,
Folk Era Records, FE1447CD,1998.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: GUEST,IB48
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 02:57 PM

OLD SPAM FRITTER,THAT OLD SPAM FRITTER,IT JUST KEEPS MOULDING ALONG

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Lizzie Cornish
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 03:12 PM

Martyn Joseph has recently written a new song about Paul Robeson and h is times with the Welsh Miners. You can read about it here on his site.

Martyn Joseph:
http://www.piperecords.co.uk/martynj/reviews.htm

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: Fliss
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 06:24 PM

Robesons version of Bheir me o - the Eriskay Love Lilt sends shivvers down my spine. It is the best version of the song. I inherited one Robeson album from my Dad. I dont have a record deck at present so cant play it.

Subject: RE: Paul Robeson
From: GUEST,beachcomber
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 07:10 PM

Does anyone remember the afternoon, in Trafalgar Square, London when Paul Robeson stood on the platform after the Great Aldermaston to London Nuclear Disarmament March it would have been 1959 I believe ?
The gathering shouted , as one, for him to sing Old Man River.
I think Bertrand Russell was also there that day ?