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