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Paul Robeson

Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "Summertime" (Clara)

Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939

2 MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS • JUL 18 2008

Album tracklist

1
Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" (Live At the Dury Lane Theatre)
03:53
2
Since You Went Away, "Seems Lak To Me"
03:07
3
Down De Lover's Lane
03:03
4
Scandalize My Name
02:10
5
Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
02:08
6
Weepin' Mary
01:43
7
I Want to Be Ready
01:32
8
My Lord What a Mornin'
02:53
9
De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
03:30
10
Git On Board Li'l Children
01:17
11
Dere's No Hidin' Place
01:00
12
Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
03:54
13
Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
04:18
14
Oh Rock Me Julie
01:35
15
Oh Didn't It Rain
01:22
16
My Mammy
03:51
17
Roll Away, Clouds (from "Virginia")
03:14
18
Sonny Boy (from the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
02:43
19
Little Pal (from the 1929 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "Say It with Songs")
03:31
20
The Lonesome Road
02:45
21
Just Keepin' On
03:12
22
Mighty Lak' a Rose
03:27
23
Mammy is Gone
03:21
24
Hail De Crown
02:13
25
3 Negro Songs: II. Exhortation. A Negro Sermon, "Remember, if a brudder smotes"
02:11
26
I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
02:57
27
Go Down Moses
02:07
28
High Water
02:36
29
Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"
03:20
30
Old Black Joe
03:11
31
My Old Kentucky Home
03:31
32
Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" (Joe)
02:50
33
River Stay 'Way from My Door
03:30
34
Rockin' Chair
03:33
35
Medley of Spirituals
07:47
36
My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
03:30
37
The Folks I Used to Know
02:53
38
Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")
02:17
39
Lil' Gal
03:01
40
Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
03:32
41
That's Why Darkies Were Born (from "George White’s Scandals of 1931")
02:41
42
When It's Sleepy Time Down South, "Sleepy Time Down South" (from the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
03:27
43
Seekin'
02:36
44
Nearer My God, to Thee
04:16
45
Le Calvaire: "Il est au loin une colline" - Sung in English, "There is a green hill far away"
04:02
46
Mah Lindy Lou
03:17
47
Ma Curly-Headed Babby
03:05
48
Pilgrim Song
02:40
49
Roll the Old Chariot: "Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood"
02:45
50
Since You Went Away
03:10
51
Wid De Moon Moon Moon
03:32
52
Got the South in My Soul
03:03
53
Hush-A-Bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
03:19
54
Round the Bend of the Road
02:57
55
Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
03:00
56
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
02:51
57
On Ma Journey
02:10
58
Bye and Bye
02:30
59
Were You There
02:48
60
3 Negro Songs: I. Swing Along, "Swing along, Chillun, along de lane"
03:22
61
Piccaninny Shoes
02:54
62
In a Narrow Street
02:49
63
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
02:57
64
Lazy Bones
03:27
65
Blue Prelude
02:51
66
Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
04:07
67
Medley I, Pt. 2: Carry me Back - Mighty Lak' a Rose - Round the Bend of the Road - River Stay 'Way From my Door - O'l Man River
04:09
68
Fat Li'l Fella Wid His Mammy's Eyes
02:04
69
Shortnin' Bread
01:10
70
Snowball
03:22
71
Water Boy
02:40
72
Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
03:37
73
Steal Away
03:04
74
Scarecrow
03:29
75
Wagon Wheels
03:27
76
So Shy
03:25
77
Piccaninny's Slumber Song
03:08
78
St. Louis Blues
03:33
79
Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
03:16
80
Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
03:20
81
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
02:51
82
Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. A Banjo Song, "I plays de banjo better now" (With marked rhythm)
03:08
83
Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home
08:46
84
Love Song (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")
03:26
85
Congo Lullaby (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")
03:11
86
Canoe Song (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")
03:04
87
Killing Song (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")
02:26
88
Shenandoah
03:19
89
Jes' Mah Song
02:30
90
De Ole Ark's A-Movering
01:05
91
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
01:20
92
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
02:02
93
Dat's All, "Honey"
02:20
94
Gloomy Sunday, "Hungarian Suicide Song"
02:48
95
Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" (Film Version)
02:39
96
Ah Still Suits Me (from the the 1936 James Whale's Film "Show Boat")
02:49
97
Sleepy River (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")
03:05
98
Lonely Road (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")
03:20
99
Song of Freedom (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")
02:42
100
The Black Emperor (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")
02:50
101
Mam'selle Marie
01:57
102
Dere's No Hidin' Place
00:57
103
Oh! No John
02:16
104
Passing By: "There is a lady sweet and kind"
02:24
105
Hammer Song
01:53
106
Lil' David
01:35
107
My Way (from the the 1937 Thornton Freeland's Film "Jericho")
02:51
108
Golden River (from the the 1937 Thornton Freeland's Film "Jericho")
02:08
109
Wagon Song, "Ho! Ho!" (from the the 1937 Robert Stevenson's Film "King Solomon's Mines")
02:14
110
The Mountain Song, "Climbing up" (from the the 1937 Robert Stevenson's Film "King Solomon's Mines")
03:14
111
Lazin' (from the 1937 James Elder Wills' Film "Big Fella")
02:51
112
I Don't Know What's Wrong
03:22
113
Roll up Sailorman (from the 1937 James Elder Wills' Film "Big Fella")
02:17
114
You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things
02:18
115
Deep Desert (from the the 1937 Thornton Freeland's Film "Jericho")
03:01
116
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
02:24
117
Minstrel Man (Text by Langston Hughes)
00:30
118
The Wanderer
02:44
119
Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
03:10
120
No More
02:32
121
Work All De Summer
01:36
122
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
01:07
123
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Sung in English)
03:29
124
All Through the Night
03:26
125
Solitude
03:36
126
Mood Indigo
03:21
127
Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "Summertime" (Clara)
02:40
128
Porgy and Bess, Act 2 Scene 1: "It Take a Long Pull to Get There" (Jake)
03:07
129
Porgy and Bess, Act 2 Scene 2: "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Sportin' Life)
02:36
130
Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" (Jake)
02:23
131
7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose: III. Just A-Wearyin' For You (Moderato)
02:39
132
Songs, Op. 29: I. At Dawning, I Love You, "When the down flames in the sky" (Con molta espressione)
02:25
133
Song of the Volga Boatmen
02:50
134
An Eriskay Love-Lilt
02:55
135
5 Popular Mexican Songs: I. Encantadora Maria
02:43
136
Goin' to Ride Up in De Chariot
01:03
137
Every Time I Feel de Spirit
01:19
138
Lay Down Late
02:29
139
Songs and Dances of Death: IV. The Field Marshal
02:24
140
David of the White Rock
03:28
141
Trees
02:31
142
Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, B. 104: IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me (Andante con moto) - arr. for Voice and Orchestra
02:16
143
Loch Lomond
02:39
144
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
03:28
145
Down de Lovers' Lane
02:30
146
5 Songs, Op. 1: No. 5, Berceuse, "Dors, mignon, près de ta mère!" (Sung in English)
02:07
147
Night (Russian Folk Song)
02:54
148
The Little Black Boy (Reading of William Blake's Poem)
02:20
149
Dear Old Southland
02:57
150
Jerusalem, on a Text by William Blake, Op. 208: "And did those feet in ancient time"
02:27
151
The Blind Ploughman
02:09
152
Chu Chin Chow, Act 2: The Cobbler's Song (Baba Mustafa)
02:42
153
Oh Could I But Express in Song
01:53
154
Love At My Heart
02:09
155
Nothin'
02:24
156
The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
01:40
157
A Perfect Day: "When you come to the end of a perfect day"
02:36
158
Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
02:12
159
Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song (Arr. Rosa Newmarch)
02:33
160
Oh Promise Me: "Oh, promise me that someday you and I"
02:39
161
Plaisir d'amour: "Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment" (Molto lento)
03:42
162
Sylvia
02:02
163
She Is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
02:52
164
Thora
03:29
165
3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2, Now Sleeps, "Now sleeps the crimson petal" (Slow, with emphasis)
02:24
166
Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)
02:12
167
Ebenezer, "Ton-y Botel"
02:33
168
Hen Wlad fy Nhadau (National Anthem of Wales)
02:26
169
Deep River
02:30
170
Elijah, Op. 70, Pt. 2: No. 14, Aria, "Lord God of Abraham" - No. 11, Baal Chorus, "Baal, we cry to Thee" (Rehearsal)
02:20
Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939
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Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "Summertime" (Clara)
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