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01 Nov 19 - 04:26 PM (#4016661) Subject: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Jack Campin https://youtu.be/B0bezsMVU7c The narrator of that clip says he was singing at Woolmet in the Lothians. But I first saw the same clip posted by Durham Miners Gala on FB, where they say it was at their event. Somebody explain? |
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01 Nov 19 - 05:42 PM (#4016675) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Steve Shaw Oh God, that is just amazing. Thanks, Jack. |
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01 Nov 19 - 06:35 PM (#4016696) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Thomas Stern fyi Paul Robeson - The Proud Valley Thomas. |
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01 Nov 19 - 07:52 PM (#4016718) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: GUEST,bigJ In 1999 there was a BBC Radio 4 programme presented by Ray Brown and produced in Manchester by Lindsay Leonard called INAUSPICIOUS MEETINGS - STARRY, STARRY NIGHT. It was described thus - The day that Paul Robeson sang to people in Liverpool City Centre from the back of a lorry on a bomb site. |
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01 Nov 19 - 08:02 PM (#4016721) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Thomas Stern https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/paul-robeson-coal-mine-peter-pickering https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/video-folk-hero-paul-robeson-entertains-miners-in-edinburgh-1-4305447 |
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01 Nov 19 - 08:21 PM (#4016722) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Thomas Stern https://www.theartsshelf.com/2017/04/05/latest-review-the-proud-valley-blu-ray-studiocanal/ https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/paul-robeson-coal-mine-peter-pickering https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/video-folk-hero-paul-robeson-entertains-miners-in-edinburgh-1-4305447 |
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02 Nov 19 - 05:46 AM (#4016780) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: The Sandman great thanks |
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02 Nov 19 - 06:31 AM (#4016792) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Jim Carroll I was kissed on the head by Paul Robeson when he sang on a bomb-site in Liverpool Jim Carroll |
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02 Nov 19 - 06:53 AM (#4016798) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: JHW What a joy to hear him again. Thanks. Usher Hall in Edinburgh immediately recognisable, didn't spot anywhere I'd know in Durham. Worked there 20 years. |
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02 Nov 19 - 07:11 PM (#4016914) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Pete MacGregor I remember hearing him sing in Holyrood Park after an Edinburgh Miners Gala day. I'm not sure which year. We went to the gala from Bo'ness every year - sometime in the late 1950s? PM |
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03 Nov 19 - 05:11 AM (#4016961) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: GUEST,jim bainbridge Excellent 30 minute programme about Paul Robeson & his links with the Scottish miners on Radio Scotland recently. Look on Radio Scotland 'Sounds' site for 'The Common Struggle of Paul Robeson'- it'll be available for 15 more days. As a Durham lad, I'm not aware of any specific links between PR and the miners of that county. |
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03 Nov 19 - 05:35 AM (#4016964) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: GUEST Re. Pete McG's post above. I remember seeing Paul Robeson in Holyrood Park. I was probably between the age of 8 & 10 so I'd guestimate it would be in the region of 1956 - 58. |
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03 Nov 19 - 09:12 AM (#4016986) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Iains The film Proud Valley was shot in the Valleys and Paul Robeson later sang with Welsh Miners with the aid of a transatlantic telephone link,during the time his passport was revoked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1hLPRnmAjw |
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03 Nov 19 - 09:38 AM (#4016989) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: GUEST,Ada the Cadre Sorry got it wrong in my first post. I was not even born for his 1949 visit. The incident I recalled was 1959 when his passport, confiscated by the US Authorities had been returned. He came to England to sing, to talk about peace and to play Othello at Stratford. |
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04 Nov 19 - 04:07 PM (#4017212) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: GUEST,Brian Bennison Robeson certainly visited County Durham. I met him myself on Stockton station in 1959. On 6th May 1949 he was in Gateshead and met by the town's MP Konni Zilliacus, who he first encountered in 1930. Robeson gave a free afternoon concert at the Bensham Cinema with many turned away. He had tea at the home of the chairman of Gateshead Labour and Trades Council. He then gave an informal rendition of Negro spirituals at St John's church. After that he performed before 2000 at an evening concert at the Town Hall. This latter event was the beginning of a formal tour that took him to Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and Clydebank. |
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04 Nov 19 - 04:54 PM (#4017218) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: The Sandman I find this clip uplifting, and comforting Paul was a giant amongst humanity |
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05 Nov 19 - 01:44 AM (#4017257) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Megan L In 1938 Paul sang at the Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park Glasgow. An almost three year old was there with his parents when they went of to see something else the little one disappeared. When they tracked back there he was standing right at the stage. child in hand they once more tried to see the other exhibits only for the little Houdini to once more disappear. |
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05 Nov 19 - 01:50 AM (#4017258) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Megan L dratted sticky finger. Once more the found him standing at the stage enraptured by the big man with the special voice. Paul Robeson spotted the child lifted him up and sang before telling him he shouldn't run away from his mum and dad. that little boy will be 84 in December this year and still loves the voice of his big man. |
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05 Nov 19 - 04:38 PM (#4017349) Subject: RE: Paul Robeson singing to British miners From: Thomas Stern for those interested in hearing him: https://folkways.si.edu/paul-robeson/on-my-journey-independent-recordings/african-american-music-folk-struggle-protest/album/Smithsonian http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=203552 http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=3156 lots more available.... If anyone is interested, I would post a list of his film appearances. Thomas. |