Songs of Free Men

~ Release by Paul Robeson (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
#TitleRatingLength
1Balm in Gilead
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-27)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-27)
2:32
2Chassidic Chant
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-27)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-27)
2:46
3From Border to Border
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-27)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-27)
2:29
4Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-27)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-27)
3:24
5The Lord God of Abraham
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
3:14
6The Purest Kind of Guy
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
3:25
7Joe Hill
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
2:45
8The Peat-Bog Soldiers
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
2:29
9The Four Insurgent Generals
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
2:17
10Native Land
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
2:23
11Song of the Plains
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-01-30)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-01-30)
3:10
12Cradle Song
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-02-02)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-02-02)
3:56
13Within Four Walls
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1942-02-02)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1942-02-02)
3:36
14By an' By
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1945-12-28)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1945-12-28)
2:32
15Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1945-12-28)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1945-12-28)
2:34
16John Henry
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1945-12-28)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1945-12-28)
2:33
17Water Boy
piano:
Lawrence Benjamin Brown (pianist, composer & arranger) (on 1945-12-28)
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1945-12-28)
2:38
18My Curly Headed Baby
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-07)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-07)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-07)
recording of:
Ma Curly Headed Boy (on 1947-11-07)
composer:
George Howard Clutsam
2:47
19Mah Lindy Lou
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-07)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-07)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-07)
recording of:
Mah Lindy Lou (on 1947-11-07)
composer:
Lily Strickland
3:14
20Wagon Wheels
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-07)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-07)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-07)
recording of:
Wagon Wheels (on 1947-11-07)
composer:
Peter de Rose and Billy Hill (US songwriter)
2:47
21The House I Live In
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-07)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-07)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-07)
recording of:
The House I Live In (on 1947-11-07)
lyricist:
Lewis Allan
composer:
Earl Robinson (40s US folk artist)
publisher:
Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA) and Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music)
3:13
22I Still Suits Me
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-08)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-08)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-08)
recording of:
Ah Still Suits Me (Show Boat, 1936 film) (on 1947-11-08)
lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein)
composer:
Jerome Kern
2:38
23Sylvia
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-08)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-08)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-08)
recording of:
Sylvia (1914 song) (on 1947-11-08)
lyricist:
Clinton Scollard (American poet)
composer:
Oley Speaks
2:11
24Ol' Man River
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-08)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-08)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-08)
3:13
25It Ain't Necessarily So
bass-baritone vocals:
Paul Robeson (American bass baritone) (on 1947-11-08)
orchestra:
Columbia Concert Orchestra (on 1947-11-08)
conductor:
Emanuel Balaban (conductor) (on 1947-11-08)
recording of:
It Ain’t Necessarily So (jazz standard originally from Porgy and Bess; catch-all for unspecified pop and jazz arrangements) (on 1947-11-08)
lyricist:
Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward (playwright) and DuBose Heyward
composer:
George Gershwin (composer)
publisher:
Chappell Music (ASCAP), Gershwin Publishing Corp and Warner/Chappell North America Limited (formerly incorporated as Marmalade Music Ltd., from 1968/09/19–1999/11/09)
was commissioned by:
Gershwin Publishing Corp (in 1935)
is based on:
Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene II. “It ain’t necessarily so”
2:35

Credits

Release

art direction:Allen Weinberg (art director and designer)
liner notes:Paul Robeson, Jr.
executive producer:Thomas Frost (classical music producer)
producer:Arthur M. Fierro
ASIN:US: B0000029YJ [info]