7702. Originally released 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948. From container: A Paul Robeson recital. Performed by: Paul Robeson, bass-baritone ; Lawrence Brown, piano ; Columbia Concert Orchestra ; Emanuel Balaban, conductor.
Contents:
Balm in Gilead (2:26) -- Chassidic chant (2:40) / Lehman Engel -- From border to border (2:46) ; Oh, how proud our quiet Don (3:18) / Ivan Dzerzhinsky -- The Lord God of Abraham (3:07) / Felix Mendelssohn -- The purest kind of guy (Joe's birthday song) (3:20) / Marc Blitzstein -- Joe Hill (2:40) / Earl Robinson -- The peat-bog soldiers (2:25 -- The four insurgent generals (2:25) -- Native land (2:17) / Isaac Donayevsky -- Song of the plains (3:04) -- Cradle song (3:49) / Alexander Gretchaninoff -- Within four walls (3:30) / Modest Mussorgsky -- By an' by (2:26) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (2:27) -- John Henry (2:27) -- Water boy (2:30) / Avery Robinson -- My curly headed baby (2:44) / George H. Clutsam -- Mah Lindy Lou (3:09) / Lily Strickland -- Wagon wheels (2:42) / Peter Derose -- The house I live in (3:08) / Earl Robinson -- I still suits me (2:32) / Oscar Hammerstein II ; Jerome Kern -- Sylvia (2:06) / Oley Speaks -- Ol' man river (3:09) / Oscar Hammerstein II ; Jerome Kern -- It ain't necessarily so (2:39) / George Gershwin.
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