Voice Of Freedom
By Paul Robeson
Tracklist
- The Early Victor And RCA Recordings 1925–1940
- Were You There?
- Steal Away
- Water Boy (previously unreleased)
- Joshua Fit de Battle Ob Jericho
- Bye And Bye
- Water Boy
- Li’l Gal
- I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound (previously unreleased)
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- On Ma Journey
- Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Down de Lover’s Lane (previously unreleased)
- Hear, de Lam’s A-Cryin’
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
- Deep River
- I’m Goin’ To Tell God All O’ My Troubles
- I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
- Witness
- Ol’ Man River
- Ballad For Americans
- I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock (previously unreleased)
- Witness (previously unreleased)
- The HMV Recordings 1928–1929
- Ol’ Man River
- Since You Went Away (Seems Lak To Me)
- Down de Lover’s Lane
- Scandalize My Name
- Sinner, Please Doan’ Let Dis Harves’ Pass
- Weepin’ Mary
- I Want To Be Ready
- My Lord, What A Mornin’
- De Li’l Piccaninny’s Gone To Sleep
- Git On Board, Li’l Children
- Dere’s No Hidin’ Place
- Plantation Songs - Part 1
- Plantation Songs - Part 2
- Oh! Rock Me, Julie
- Oh, Didn’t It Rain
- Mammy
- Roll Away, Clouds
- Sonny Boy
- Little Pal
- The Lonesome Road
- Just Keepin’ On
- Mighty Lak’ A Rose
- Mammy Is Gone
- The HMV Recordings 1930–1931
- Hail The Crown
- Exhortation
- I Stood On The Ribber Jordan / Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
- Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
- High Water
- Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
- Poor Old Joe
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Ol’ Man River
- River Stay ’way From My Door
- Rockin’ Chair
- Medley Of Spirituals
- My Heart Is Where The Mohawk Flows Tonight
- The Folks I Used To Know
- Mary Had A Baby (Yes, Lord)
- Li’l Gal
- Bear de Burden / All God’s Chillun Got Wings
- That’s Why Darkies Were Born
- When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
- Seekin’
- The HMV Recordings 1932–1933
- Nearer, My God, To Thee
- There Is A Green Hill Far Away
- Mah Lindy Lou
- Ma Curly-Headed Babby
- Pilgrim’s Song
- Roll de Ole Chariot Along
- Since You Went Away (Seems Lak To Me)
- Wid de Moon, Moon, Moon
- Got The South In My Soul
- Hush-a-bye Lullaby
- Round The Bend Of The Road
- Take Me Away From The River
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- On Ma Journey
- Bye And Bye (I’m Goin’ To Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
- Were You There?
- Swing Along!
- Piccaninny Shoes
- In A Narrow Street
- Carry Me Back To Green Pastures
- Lazy Bones
- Blue Prelude
- Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 1
- Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 2
- The HMV Recordings 1933–1936
- A Fat Li’l’ Feller Wid His Mammy’s Eyes
- Short’nin’ Bread
- Snowball
- Water Boy
- Doan’ You Cry, Ma Honey
- Steal Away
- Scarecrow (Scared T’ Go T’ Bed)
- Wagon Wheels
- So Shy
- Piccaninny Slumber Song (Little Alabama Coon)
- St. Louis Blues
- Mammy’s Little Kinky-Headed Boy
- Little Man, You’ve Had A Busy Day
- I Ain’t Lazy – I’m Just Dreamin’
- The Banjo Song
- Paul Robeson Medley No. 2
- Music From The Film Sanders Of The River
- Shenandoah
- Jes’ Mah Song
- De Ole Ark’s A-Movering
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
- Joshua Fit de Battle Ob Jericho
- The HMV Recordings 1936–1937
- Honey, Dat’s All
- Gloomy Sunday
- Music From The Film Show Boat
- Music From The Film The Song Of Freedom
- Mam’selle Marie
- Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere
- O No, John!
- Passing By
- Hammer Song
- Li’l David
- Music From The Film Jericho
- Music From The Film King Solomon’s Mines
- Music From The Film Big Fella
- Deep Desert
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Minstrel Man
- The Wanderer
- The HMV Recordings 1937-1938
- Dere’s A Man Goin’ Roun’ Takin’ Names
- No More Auction Block
- Work All de Summer
- Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
- Silent Night
- All Through The Night
- Solitude
- Mood Indigo
- Porgy And Bess
- Just A-Wearyin’ For You
- At Dawning (I Love You)
- Song Of The Volga Boatmen
- An Eriskay Love Lilt
- Encantadora Maria
- Goin’ To Ride Up In de Chariot
- Every Time I Feel de Spirit
- Lay Down Late
- Forgotten
- David Of The White Rock (Dafydd y Garreg Wen)
- Trees
- Songs My Mother Taught Me Op. 55/4
- Loch Lomond
- Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
- Down de Lover’s Lane
- Berceuse Op. 1/5
- O Thou Silent Night
- The Little Black Boy (Poem)
- Dear Old Southland
- Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time)
- The Blind Ploughman
- The Cobbler’s Song
- Oh, Could I But Express In Song
- Love At My Heart
- Nothin’
- The Rosary
- A Perfect Day
- Absent
- Black Eyes
- Oh, Promise Me Op. 50
- Plaisir D’amour
- Sylvia
- She Is Far From The Land
- Thora
- Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal Op. 3/2
- Sea Fever
- Music From The Film The Proud Valley
- Deep River
- Elijah Op. 70
- The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1942/1947
- Songs Of Free Men
- Quiet Flows The Don (Tikhiy Don)
- The Purest Kind of Guy
- Joe Hill
- Peat Bog Soldiers (Die Moorsoldaten)
- The Four Insurgent Generals
- Song Of The Plains (Meadowland)
- Native Land (Shiroka Strana Moya Rodnaya)
- Balm In Gilead
- Chassidic Chant
- Lord God Of Abraham, Isaac And Israel
- Berceuse op. 1/5
- Within Four Walls
- Song Of The Plains (Meadowland) (previously Unreleased)
- A Robeson Recital Of Popular Favorites
- Music From The Film Show Boat
- Ma Curly-Headed Babby
- Mah Lindy Lou
- The House I Live In (That’s America To Me)
- Wagon Wheels
- Sylvia
- It Ain’t Necessarily So
- King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)
- Ol’ Man River
- The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1945/1947
- Spirituals - A Robeson Recital Of Popular Favorites
- Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
- Balm In Gilead
- Bye And Bye (I’m Goin’ To Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- John Henry
- Water Boy
- Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve Seen
- Joshua Fit de Battle Ob Jericho
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Every Time I Feel de Spirit
- I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
- O Gimme Your Han’
- No More Auction Block
- Great Gittin’ Up Mornin’
- Hear, de Lam’s a-Cryin’
- Goin’ To Ride Up In de Chariot
- I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
- Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger
- Hammer Song
- Dere’s A Man Goin’ ’Round
- I Know de Lord
- Git On Board, Li’l Children
- Li’l David
- Paul Robeson Live In New York 1958 - New York City, Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, June 1, 1958
- Over The Mountains (Love Will Find Out The Way) (previously unreleased)
- Balm In Gilead (previously unreleased)
- Freedom (previously unreleased)
- A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Bwv 80 (previously unreleased)
- Ode To Joy (previously unreleased)
- O No, John! (previously unreleased)
- An Eriskay Love Lilt (previously unreleased)
- In a Place Far, Far Away
- Comments On Languages And Music Of Many Lands (previously unreleased)
- Gospodi! Gospodi! Vozzri, Molyu (previously unreleased)
- Othello, The Moor Of Venice: Soft You, A Word Or Two Before You Go (previously unreleased)
- Introduction To
- Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (previously unreleased)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- No More Auction Block
- Water Boy
- The Four Insurgent Generals (previously unreleased)
- We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? (How Does The Czar Live?) (previously unreleased)
- Hush, My Pretty Baby (Duermete, Niño Lindo) (previously unreleased)
- Closing Words (previously unreleased)
- Joe Hill (previously unreleased)
- The House I Live In (That’s America To Me)
- Paul Robeson Live In London 1958 - London, Royal Albert Hall, August 10, 1958
- Balm In Gilead (previously unreleased)
- L’amour de Moi
- Ode to Joy (previously unreleased)
- The Orphan Girl (previously unreleased)
- Chassidic Chant (previously unreleased)
- Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (previously unreleased)
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (previously unreleased)
- Every Time I Feel de Spirit
- I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
- No More Auction Block (previously unreleased)
- Scandalize My Name (previously unreleased)
- Git On Board, Li’l Children
- Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? (How Does The Czar Live?) (previously unreleased)
- An Eriskay Love Lilt (previously unreleased)
- Eriskay Love Lilt – Encore (previously unreleased)
- Song Of The Volga Boatmen
- Song Of The Volga Boatmen – Encore (previously unreleased)
- Water Boy (previously unreleased)
- O No, John! (previously unreleased)
- O Thou Silent Night (previously unreleased)
- Joe Hill
- Ol’ Man River
- Let the Rail Splitter Awake (Poem) (previously unreleased)
- Shakespeare: Othello The Moor Of Venice - A Tragedy In 5 Acts
- Act I
- Scene 1: Venice. A Street “Tush! Never Tell Me”
- Scene 2: Another Street “Though In The Trade Of War I Have Slain Men”
- Scene 3: A Council-chamber “Here Comes Brabantio And The Valiant Moor”
- Act II
- Scene 1: A Sea-port In Cyprus. An Open Place Near The Quay “The Moor! I know his trumpet”
- Scene 3: A Hall In The Castle "Welcome, Iago, We Must To The Watch”
- ACT III
- Scene 3: The Garden Of The Castle “Madam, I’ll Take My Leave”
- Scene 4: Before The Castle “Where Should I Lose That Handkerchief, Emilia?”
- Act IV
- Scene 1: Cyprus. Before The Castle “Will You Think So?”
- Scene 2: A Room In The Castle “You Have Seen Nothing Then?”
- Scene 3: Another Room In The Castle “How Goes It Now?”
- Act V
- Scene 2: A Bedchamber In The Castle; Desdemona In Bed Asleep; Light Burning “It Is The Cause”