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Background: From 1928 to 1939 Paul Robeson was based in London and recorded exclusively for EMI’s HMV label. This 7 CD set contains all the HMV recordings. The wide-ranging repertoire includes American plantation songs and spirituals, British folk songs and popular hits of the day, as well as art songs.

Also include in the set is the 1928 Columbia recording of 'Ol' Man River' from Show Boat with the Drury Lane chorus and orchestra that was not released until 1976 for contractual reasons.

All tracks have been newly transferred and digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios from the best available source material in the EMI Archives by the award-winning audio restoration engineer Andrew Walter, using the most advanced technology.

CATALOGUE NR: 2155862
RECORD LABEL: EMI
FORMAT: 7 CD Set
PRICE: £ 19.99 including VAT, or £ 17.01 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 21-Jul-2008

COMPOSER: Jerome Kern
TITLE: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939
TRACKS: Show Boat : Ol' Man River (Kern). Seem lak' to me (Johnson). Down de lover's lane (Cook). Scandalize my name (Trad. arr. Burleigh). Sinner please doan' let dis Harves' pass (Trad. arr. Burleigh). Weepin' Mary (Trad. arr. Burleigh). I want to be ready (Trad. arr. Burleigh). My Lord what a mornin' (Trad. arr. Burleigh). De li'l pickaninny's gone to sleep (Trad. arr. Burleigh). Git on board li'l children (Trad. arr. Brown). Dere's no hidin' place (Trad. arr. Brown). Plantation Songs part 1 : So early in the morning / Carry me back to old Virginia / Old folks at home / Goodnight ladies. Plantation Songs part 2 : Away down south in Dixie / Poor old Joe / Oh Susanna / My old Kentucky home. Oh! Rock me Julie (Trad. arr. Brown). Oh didn't it rain (Trad. arr. Brown). Mammy (Tunbridge). Roll away clouds (Trad. arr. Robeson). Sonny Boy (Trad. arr. Robeson). Say It with Songs : Little Pal (de Sylva / Brown / Henderson). The Lonesome Road (Shilkret). Just keepin' on (Phillips). Mighty lak' a rose (Nevin). Mammy is gone (de Sylva / Brown / Henderson). Hail de crown (Trad. arr. Robinson). Exhortation (Cook). I stood on the ribber Jordan - Peter go ring dem bells (Trad. arr. Burleigh). Go down Moses (Trad. arr. Burleigh). High water (McHardy / Brennan). Old folks at home - Swanee River (Foster). Poor Old Joe (Foster). My old Kentucky home (Foster). Show Boat : Ol' Man River (Kern). River stay 'way from my door (Woods). Rockin' chair (Carmichael). Medley of Spirituals : I'm rolling and sing-a-ho / Hail de crown / Joshua fit de battle ob Jericho / I got a robe / Oh Lord I done / De gospel train / Black sheep / Heav'n bells are ringin' / I'll hear de trumpet sound / Swing low sweet chariot / Walk together children. My heart is where the Mohawk flows tonight (Robison). The folks I used to know (Kester). Mary had a baby - Yes Lord (Trad. arr. Johnson). Li’l gal (Johnson). Bear de burden - All God's chillun got wings (Trad. arr. White & Johnson). That's why darkies were born (Brown & Henderson). When it's sleepy time down south (Muse & Rowe). Seekin' (Marshall & Hall). Nearer my God to Thee (Carey). There is a Green Hill (Gounod). Ma Lindy Lou (Strickland). Ma curly headed baby (Clutsam). Pilgrim's Song (Trad. arr. Clapham). Roll de ole chariot along (Trad. arr. Clapham). Since you went away (Johnson). Wid de moon moon moon (Cook). Got the south in my soul (Washington / Young / Riley). Hush-a-bye lullaby (Clapham). Round the bend of the road (Klenner). Take me away from the river (Parker). Swing low sweet chariot (Trad. arr. Brown). On ma journey (Boatner). Bye and bye (Trad. arr. Burleigh). Were you there? (Trad. Arr. Burleigh). Swing along (Cook). Piccaninny shoes (Sissle / Blake). In a narrow street (Warren / Berwick). Carry me back to green pastures (Pepper). Lazy bones (Carmichael). Blue Prelude (Bishop). Medley part 1 : Roll de ole chariot / Mary had a baby / Swing low sweet chariot / Heav'n heav'n. Medley part 2 : Carry me back to old Virginia / Mighty lak' a rose / Round the bend of the river / River stay 'way from my door / Ol' Man River. Fat li'l fella wid his mammy's eyes (Trad. arr. Gordon). Shortnin' bread (Trad. arr. Gordon). Snowball (Carmichael). Water boy (Trad. arr. Robinson). Doan' you cry ma honey (Noll). Steal away (Trad. arr. Brown). Scarecrow (McCarty / Redmond / Simon). Wagon Wheels (Hill / de Rose). So shy (Boretz / Samuels). Piccaninny's Slumber Song (Murray). St Louis Blues (Handy). Mammy's little kinky-headed boy (White / Trinkhaus). Little man you've had a busy day (Wayne / Hoffman). I ain't lazy I'm just dreaming (Dave / Franklin). The Banjo Song (Homer). Medley No.2 : Lazy bones / Scarecrow / Fat li'l Fella / Wagon Wheels / Deep River / Ma curly-headed baby / Carry me back to green pastures / Old folks at home. Sanders of the River : Love Song / Congo Lullaby / Canoe Song / Killing Song (Spoliansky). Shenandoah (Trad. arr. Terry). Jes' mah song (Strickland). De ole Ark's a-movering (Trad. arr. Johnson). Ezekiel saw de wheel (Trad. arr. Brown). Joshua fit de battle ob Jericho (Trad. arr. Brown). Honey Dat's all (Alstyne). Gloomy Sunday (Seress). Show Boat : Ol' Man River / I still suits me (Kern). Song of Freedom : Sleepy River / Lonely Road / Song of Freedom / The Black Emperor (Ansell). Mam'selle Marie - Creole Song (Guion). Dere's no hidin' place (Trad. arr. Brown). Oh! No John (Trad. arr. Sharp). Passing by (Edward Purcell arr. Cochrane). Hammer Song (Trad. arr. Brown). Li’l David (Trad. arr. Brown). Jericho : My way / Golden River (Carr / Kennedy). King Solomon’s Mines : Ho! Ho! - Wagon Song / Climbing up - Mountain Song (Spoliansky). Big Fella : Lazin' (Ansell). I don't know what's wrong (Ansell). Big Fella : Roll up sailorman / You didn't oughta do such things (Ansell). Jericho : Deep Desert (Carr / Kennedy). Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (Trad. arr. Brown). Minstrel Man - spoken (Langton Hughes). The Wanderer (Trad. arr. Palmgren). Dere's a man goin' round' takin' names (Brown). No more (Trad). Work all de summer (Trad. arr. Gilbert). Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? (Trad). Silent night holy night (Grubber arr. Crampton). All through the night (Trad. arr. Somervell). Solitude (Ellington / de Lange & Mills). Mood Indigo (Ellington / Mills & Bigard). Porgy and Bess : Summertime - Lullaby / It take a long pull to get there / It ain't necessarily so / A woman is a sometime thing (Gershwin). Just a-wearyin' for you (Jacobs-Bond). At Dawning (Cadman). Song of the Volga boatmen (Trad. arr. Buck). An Eriskay Love-lilt (Trad. arr. Kennedy-Fraser). Encantadora Maria (Kilenyi). Goin' to ride up in de chariot (Trad. arr. Brown). Every time I feel de spirit (Trad). Lay down late (Trad. arr. Brown). After the battle (Mussorgsky). David of the white rock (Trad). Trees (Rasbach). Songs my mother taught me op.55 No.4 (Dvorak). Loch Lomond (Trad. arr. Goehr). Drink to me only with thine eyes (Calcott). Down de lovers' lane (Cook). The Moor of Peter the Great : Lullaby - sung in English and Russian (Grechaninov). Night - Russian folk song (Trad. arr. Alexandrov). Songs of Innocence : The little black boy - spoken (Blake). Dear old southland (Layton). Jerusalem (Parry). The Blind Ploughman (Clarke). The Cobbler's Song - Chu Chin Chow (Norton). Oh could I but express in song (Malashkin). Love at my heart (Libbie / Davidson / Carpentier). Nothin' (Layton). The Rosary (Nevin). A Perfect Day (Jacobs-Bond). Absent (Metcalf). Black Eyes (Trad. arr. Newmarch). Robin Hood : Oh promise me (de Koven). Plaisir d'amour (Martini). Sylvia (Speaks). She is far from the land (Trad. arr. Stanford). Thora (Adams). Now sleeps the crimson petal (Quilter). Sea Fever (Ireland). The Proud Valley : Ebenezer (Williams). The Proud Valley : Land of my fathers (Trad). Deep River (Trad. arr. Irving). Lord God of Abraham - Baal chorus - rehearsal scene (Mendelssohn).
ARTISTS: Paul Robeson      

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