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27 Jan 07 - 12:37 PM (#1949717) Subject: Paul Robeson From: GUEST,ifor 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 |
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27 Jan 07 - 02:03 PM (#1949795) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: alanabit If Paul Robeson was not a folk singer, I don't know who was. |
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27 Jan 07 - 02:16 PM (#1949806) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Q (Frank Staplin) Like Enrico Caruso, who made Neapolitan songs high art. |
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27 Jan 07 - 06:03 PM (#1949965) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: oldhippie 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! |
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27 Jan 07 - 06:15 PM (#1949973) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: artbrooks There is something called The Moscow Concert, I think...but I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for. |
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27 Jan 07 - 06:36 PM (#1949984) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |
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27 Jan 07 - 08:11 PM (#1950052) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: GUEST 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. |
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27 Jan 07 - 11:05 PM (#1950106) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: ragdall I found this album, http://www.panartist.com/paulrobeson.htm The title appears to be "Paul Robeson Live at Tchaikovsky Hall 1949" rags |
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28 Jan 07 - 05:13 AM (#1950200) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Dave Hanson Paul Robeson not a folksinger ? yeah him and Leadbelly both. eric |
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28 Jan 07 - 07:56 AM (#1950275) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Susan of DT I have two of his records on the Everest label: American Baladeer (#3417) and A Man and His Beliefs (#3291) |
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28 Jan 07 - 09:14 AM (#1950322) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Rapparee THE Paul Robeson? Not a folk singer? When did that happen? |
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29 Jan 07 - 07:38 AM (#1951088) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: oldhippie the "Peace Arch Concerts" CD is available online @ cdbaby.com, so I guess its still in print. |
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29 Jan 07 - 11:03 AM (#1951251) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: dick greenhaus 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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29 Jan 07 - 01:09 PM (#1951392) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: wysiwyg 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 |
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29 Jan 07 - 01:35 PM (#1951420) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Captain Ginger 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. |
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29 Jan 07 - 02:38 PM (#1951475) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Effsee 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! |
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29 Jan 07 - 02:42 PM (#1951481) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Effsee Oops ! Meant to include this info:- Paul Robeson - The Freedom Train and the Welsh Transatlantic Concert, Folk Era Records, FE1447CD,1998. |
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29 Jan 07 - 02:57 PM (#1951499) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: GUEST,IB48 OLD SPAM FRITTER,THAT OLD SPAM FRITTER,IT JUST KEEPS MOULDING ALONG |
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29 Jan 07 - 03:12 PM (#1951513) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Lizzie Cornish 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 |
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29 Jan 07 - 06:24 PM (#1951722) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: Fliss 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. |
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29 Jan 07 - 07:10 PM (#1951792) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson From: GUEST,beachcomber 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 ? |