Paul Robeson: Songs of Struggle & Love (Very Best of …Volume II – 29 tracks)

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Paul Robeson (Bass-Baritone)
  1. Summertime (Porgy and Bess) New Mayfair Orch / Greenwood 2:34
  2. Carry me Back to Green Pastures (Pepper) Orch / Ray Noble 2:50
  3. Were You There when they Crucified my Lord? (Trad. spritual) 2:42
  4. By and By (Trad. spritual) 2:24
  5. John Henry (Trad; arr.Johnson) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:27
  6. Joe Hill (Robinson, Hayes) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:39
  7. The Peat-Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten; arr.Eisler) Lawrence Brown 2:25
  8. Kevin Barry (Anon. Irish) 2:09
  9. Native Land (Donayevsky) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:19
  10. The Four Insurgent Generals (Anon. Spanish Civil War) 2:23
  11. Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (Dzerzhinsky) Lawrence Brown 3:18
  12. Killing Song (Sanders of the River) (Spoliansky, Wimperis) 2:19
  13. Congo Lullaby (Sanders of the River) (Spoliansky, Wimperis) 3:03
  14. At Dawning (Cadman) 2:20
  15. Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel ? (Trad. spiritual) 1:27
  16. Steal Away to Jesus (Trad. spiritual) 2:57
  17. St.Louis Blues (Handy) Orchestra / Ray Noble 3:26
  18. Mah Lindy Lou (Strickland) Orchestra / Ray Noble 3:11
  19. Cradle Song (Gretchaninov) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:07
  20. Passing By (Purcell:Herrick) Lawrence Brown, piano 2:19
  21. Lazin’ (from Big Fella) Orchestra / Eric Ansell 2:44
  22. Thora (Weatherley:Adams) Orchestra / Walter Goehr 3:23
  23. Love At My Heart (Graves:arr.Wood) Orchestra / Walter Goehr 2:03
  24. Encantadora Maria (Kilyeni) Orchestra / Ronnie Munro 2:38
  25. Ebenezer (The Proud Valley) with Male Chorus 2:26
  26. All Men are Brothers / Ode to Joy (Beethoven/Schiller) 2:39
  27. Song of the Plains (Red Army Song) (arr.Knipper) Lawrence Brown 3:05
  28. The Soviet Anthem (edited) with Chorus 2:06
  29. Jerusalem (Blake) 2:21

This collection is the companion to ALC1256 ‘Very Best of /Ol’ Man River’ and focuses more on his ‘Songs of struggle’ and on Spirituals and Lullabies Paul Robeson once said: ‘The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.’