The Early Victor And RCA Recordings 1925–1940
1-1
Were You There?
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
1-2
Steal Away
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-3
Water Boy (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By Avery Robinson
1-4
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-5
Bye And Bye
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
1-6
Water Boy
Arranged By Avery Robinson
1-7
Li’l Gal
Composed By John Rosamond Johnson | Text By Paul Laurence Dunbar
1-8
I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-9
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-10
On Ma Journey
Arranged By Edward Boatner
1-11
Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-12
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-13
Down De Lover’s Lane (Previously Unreleased)
Composed By Will Marion Cook | Text By Paul Laurence Dunbar
1-14
Hear, De Lam’s A-Cryin’
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-15
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-16
Deep River
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
1-17
I’m Goin’ To Tell God All O’ My Troubles
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-18
I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-19
Witness
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-20
Ol’ Man River
Composed By Jerome Kern | Libretto By Oscar Hammerstein II
1-21
Ballad For Americans
Composed By Earl Robinson | Text By John Latouche
1-22
I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
1-23
Witness (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
The HMV Recordings 1928–1929
2-1
Ol’ Man River
Composed By Jerome Kern | Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein II
2-2
Since You Went Away (Seems Lak To Me)
Composed By John Rosamond Johnson | Lyrics By James Weldon Johnson
2-3
Down De Lover’s Lane
Composed By Will Marion Cook | Lyrics By Paul Laurence Dunbar
2-4
Scandalize My Name
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
2-5
Sinner, Please Doan’ Let Dis Harves’ Pass
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
2-6
Weepin’ Mary
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
2-7
I Want To Be Ready
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
2-8
My Lord, What A Mornin’
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
2-9
De Li’l Piccaninny’s Gone To Sleep
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
2-10
Git On Board, Li’l Children
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
2-11
Dere’s No Hidin’ Place
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
2-12
Plantation Songs - Part 1
2-13
Plantation Songs - Part 2
2-14
Oh! Rock Me, Julie
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
2-15
Oh, Didn’t It Rain
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
2-16
Mammy
Composed By Joseph Tunbridge
2-17
Roll Away, Clouds
Arranged By Paul Robeson | Composed By Jack Waller, Joseph Tunbridge
2-18
Sonny Boy
Composed By Buddy G. De Sylva, Ray Henderson | Lyrics By Lew Brown
2-19
Little Pal
Composed By Buddy G. De Sylva, Ray Henderson | Lyrics By Lew Brown
2-20
The Lonesome Road
Composed By Nathaniel Shilkret
2-21
Just Keepin’ On
Composed By Alexander Phillips
2-22
Mighty Lak’ A Rose
Composed By Ethelbert Nevin
2-23
Mammy Is Gone
Composed By Buddy G. De Sylva, Ray Henderson | Lyrics By Lew Brown
The HMV Recordings 1930–1931
3-1
Hail The Crown
Arranged By Avery Robinson
3-2
Exhortation
Composed By Will Marion Cook
3-3
I Stood On The Ribber Jordan / Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
3-4
Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
3-5
High Water
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
3-6
Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
Composed By Stephen Foster
3-7
Poor Old Joe
Composed By Stephen Foster
3-8
My Old Kentucky Home
Composed By Stephen Foster
3-9
Ol’ Man River
Composed By Jerome Kern | Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein II
3-10
River Stay ’way From My Door
Composed By Harry Woods (2)
3-11
Rockin’ Chair
Composed By Hoagy Carmichael
3-12
Medley Of Spirituals
3-13
My Heart Is Where The Mohawk Flows Tonight
Composed By Carson Robison
3-14
The Folks I Used To Know
Composed By Ray Noble
3-15
Mary Had A Baby (Yes, Lord)
Arranged By Hal Johnson
3-16
Li’l Gal
Composed By John Rosamond Johnson
3-17
Bear De Burden / All God’s Chillun Got Wings
Arranged By James Weldon Johnson
3-18
That’s Why Darkies Were Born
Composed By Ray Henderson
3-19
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
Composed By Clarence Muse, Leon Rene, Otis Rene
3-20
Seekin’
Composed By H.G. Marshall-Hall
The HMV Recordings 1932–1933
4-1
Nearer, My God, To Thee
Composed By Lucie Johnstone | Lyrics By Sarah Flower Adams
4-2
There Is A Green Hill Far Away
Composed By Charles Gounod
4-3
Mah Lindy Lou
Composed By Lily Strickland
4-4
Ma Curly-Headed Babby
Composed By George Clutsam
4-5
Pilgrim’s Song
Arranged By Ruthland Clapham
4-6
Roll de Ole Chariot Along
Arranged By Ruthland Clapham
4-7
Since You Went Away (Seems Lak To Me)
Composed By John Rosamond Johnson | Lyrics By James Weldon Johnson
4-8
Wid De Moon, Moon, Moon
Composed By Will Marion Cook | Lyrics By William Moore (2)
4-9
Got The South In My Soul
Composed By Victor Young | Lyrics By Lee Wiley, Ned Washington
4-10
Hush-a-bye Lullaby
Composed By Ruthland Clapham
4-11
Round The Bend Of The Road
Composed By John Klenner
4-12
Take Me Away From The River
Composed By Kay Lois Parker
4-13
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
4-14
On Ma Journey
Arranged By Edward Boatner
4-15
Bye And Bye (I’m Goin’ To Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
4-16
Were You There?
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
4-17
Swing Along!
Composed By Will Marion Cook
4-18
Piccaninny Shoes
Composed By Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
4-19
In A Narrow Street
Composed By Earlo C. Berwick, Walter Warren
4-20
Carry Me Back To Green Pastures
Composed By Harry Stephen Pepper
4-21
Lazy Bones
Composed By Hoagy Carmichael | Lyrics By Johnny Mercer
4-22
Blue Prelude
Composed By Joe Bishop | Lyrics By Gordon Jenkins
4-23
Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 1
4-24
Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 2
The HMV Recordings 1933–1936
5-1
A Fat Li’l’ Feller Wid His Mammy’s Eyes
Composed By Sheridan Gordon | Lyrics By Frank Lebby Stanton
5-2
Short’nin’ Bread
Composed By Jaques Wolfe | Lyrics By Clement Wood
5-3
Snowball
Composed By Hoagy Carmichael
5-4
Water Boy
Arranged By Avery Robinson
5-5
Doan’ You Cry, Ma Honey
Composed By Albert W. Noll
5-6
Steal Away
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
5-7
Scarecrow (Scared T’ Go T’ Bed)
Composed By Charles McCarthy, John Redmond (2), Nat Simon
5-8
Wagon Wheels
Composed By Peter de Rose | Lyrics By Billy Hill
5-9
So Shy
Composed By Walter Samuels | Lyrics By Allen Boretz
5-10
Piccaninny Slumber Song (Little Alabama Coon)
Composed By James Kendis | Lyrics By Hattie Starr
5-11
St. Louis Blues
Composed By W. C. Handy
5-12
Mammy’s Little Kinky-Headed Boy
Composed By George Trinkhaus | Lyrics By Joseph M. White
5-13
Little Man, You’Ve Had A Busy Day
Composed By Mabel Wayne | Lyrics By Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler
5-14
I Ain’t Lazy – I’m Just Dreamin’
Composed By Dave Franklin
5-15
The Banjo Song
Composed By Sidney Homer | Lyrics By Howard Weeden
5-16
Paul Robeson Medley No. 2
Music From The Film Sanders Of The River
Composed By Mischa Spoliansky | Lyrics By Arthur Wimperie
5-21
Shenandoah
Arranged By Richard Runciman Terry
5-22
Jes’ Mah Song
Composed By Lily Strickland
5-23
De Ole Ark’s A-Movering
Arranged By James Weldon Johnson
5-24
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
5-25
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
The HMV Recordings 1936–1937
6-1
Honey, Dat’s All
6-2
Gloomy Sunday
Music From The Film Show Boat
Music From The Film The Song Of Freedom
6-9
Mam’selle Marie
6-10
Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere
6-11
O No, John!
6-12
Passing By
6-13
Hammer Song
6-14
Li’l David
Music From The Film Jericho
Music From The Film King Solomon’s Mines
Music From The Film Big Fella
6-23
Deep Desert
6-24
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
6-25
Minstrel Man
6-26
The Wanderer
The HMV Recordings 1937-1938
7-1
Dere’s A Man Goin’ Roun’ Takin’ Names
7-2
No More Auction Block
7-3
Work All De Summer
7-4
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
7-5
Silent Night
7-6
All Through The Night
7-7
Solitude
7-8
Mood Indigo
Porgy And Bess
7-13
Just A-Wearyin’ For You
7-14
At Dawning (I Love You)
7-15
Song Of The Volga Boatmen
7-16
An Eriskay Love Lilt
7-17
Encantadora Maria
7-18
Goin’ To Ride Up In De Chariot
7-19
Every Time I Feel de Spirit
7-20
Lay Down Late
7-21
Forgotten
7-22
David Of The White Rock = Dafydd y Garreg Wen
7-23
Trees
7-24
Songs My Mother Taught Me Op. 55/4
Composed By Antonín Dvořák
7-25
Loch Lomond
7-26
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
8-1
Down De Lover’s Lane
8-2
Berceuse Op. 1/5
Lyrics By Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов | Music By Alexander Gretchaninov
8-3
O Thou Silent Night
8-4
The Little Black Boy (Poem)
8-5
Dear Old Southland
8-6
Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time)
Music By Charles Hubert Hastings Parry | Words By William Blake
8-7
The Blind Ploughman
8-8
The Cobbler’s Song
8-9
Oh, Could I But Express In Song
8-10
Love At My Heart
8-11
Nothin’
8-12
The Rosary
8-13
A Perfect Day
8-14
Absent
8-15
Black Eyes
8-16
Oh, Promise Me Op. 50
Composed By Reginald de Koven
8-17
Plaisir d’Amour
8-18
Sylvia
8-19
She Is Far From The Land
8-20
Thora
8-21
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal Op. 3/2
Composed By Roger Quilter
8-22
Sea Fever
Music From The Film The Proud Valley
8-25
Deep River
8-26
Elijah Op. 70
Composed By Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1942/1947
Songs Of Free Men
Quiet Flows The Don (Tikhiy Don)
Composed By Иван Дзержинский
9-3
The Purest Kind of Guy
Composed By Marc Blitzstein
9-4
Joe Hill
Composed By Earl Robinson | Lyrics By Alfred Hayes
9-5
Peat Bog Soldiers = Die Moorsoldaten
Composed By Hanns Eisler, Rudi Goguel | Lyrics By Johann Esser, Wolfgang Langhoff
9-6
The Four Insurgent Generals
Composed By Traditional
9-7
Song Of The Plains (Meadowland)
Composed By Лев Книппер
9-8
Native Land (Shiroka Strana Moya Rodnaya)
Composed By Исаак Дунаевский
9-9
Balm In Gilead
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
9-10
Chassidic Chant
Composed By Lehman Engel
9-11
Lord God Of Abraham, Isaac And Israel
Composed By Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Translated By William Bartholomew
9-12
Berceuse Op. 1/5
Composed By Alexander Gretchaninov | Lyrics By Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов
9-13
Within Four Walls
Composed By Modest Mussorgsky | Lyrics By Modest Mussorgsky, Арсений Голенищев-Кутузов
9-14
Song Of The Plains (Meadowland, Previously Unreleased)
Composed By Лев Книппер
A Robeson Recital Of Popular Favorites
Music From The Film Show Boat
Composed By Jerome Kern | Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein II
9-17
Ma Curly-Headed Babby
Composed By George Clutsam
9-18
Mah Lindy Lou
Composed By Lily Strickland
9-19
The House I Live In (That’s America To Me)
Composed By Earl Robinson | Lyrics By Lewis Allan
9-20
Wagon Wheels
Composed By Peter de Rose | Lyrics By Billy Hill
9-21
Sylvia
Composed By Oley Speaks | Lyrics By Clinton Scollard
9-22
It Ain’t Necessarily So
Composed By George Gershwin
9-23
King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)
Composed By Count Basie
9-24
Ol’ Man River
Composed By Jerome Kern | Lyrics By Oscar Hammerstein II
The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1945/1947
Spirituals - A Robeson Recital Of Popular Favorites
10-1
Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
10-2
Balm In Gilead
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
10-3
Bye And Bye (I’m Goin’ To Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
Arranged By Harry T. Burleigh
10-4
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-5
John Henry
Arranged By Hall Johnson
10-6
Water Boy
Arranged By Avery Robinson
10-7
Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-8
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10-9
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-10
Every Time I Feel de Spirit
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-11
I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-12
O Gimme Your Han’
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-13
No More Auction Block
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-14
Great Gittin’ Up Mornin’
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-15
Hear, De Lam’s A-Cryin’
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-16
Goin’ To Ride Up In De Chariot
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-17
I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-18
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-19
Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-20
Hammer Song
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-21
Dere’s A Man Goin’ ’Round
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-22
I Know De Lord
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-23
Git On Board, Li’l Children
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
10-24
Li’l David
Arranged By Lawrence Brown (4)
Paul Robeson Live In New York 1958 - New York City, Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, June 1, 1958
11-1
Over The Mountains (Love Will Find Out The Way, Previously Unreleased)
11-2
Balm In Gilead (Previously unreleased)
11-3
Freedom (Previously Unreleased)
11-4
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, BWV 80 (Previously Unreleased)
Composed By Johann Sebastian Bach
11-5
Ode To Joy (Previously Unreleased)
11-6
O No, John! (Previously unreleased)
11-7
An Eriskay Love Lilt (Previously Unreleased)
11-8
In a Place Far, Far Away
11-9
Comments On Languages And Music Of Many Lands (Previously Unreleased)
Narrator Paul Robeson
11-10
Gospodi! Gospodi! Vozzri, Molyu (Previously Unreleased)
11-11
Othello, The Moor Of Venice: Soft You, A Word Or Two Before You Go (Previously Unreleased)
11-12
Introduction To
11-13
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (Previously Unreleased)
11-14
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
11-15
No More Auction Block
11-16
Water Boy
11-17
The Four Insurgent Generals (Previously Unreleased)
11-18
We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
11-19
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
11-20
Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? = How Does The Czar? (Previously Unreleased)
11-21
Hush, My Pretty Baby = Duermete, Niño Lindo (Previously Unreleased)
11-22
Closing Words (Previously Unreleased)
Speech Paul Robeson
11-23
Joe Hill (Previously Unreleased)
11-24
The House I Live In (That’s America To Me)
Paul Robeson Live In London 1958 - London, Royal Albert Hall, August 10, 1958
12-1
Balm In Gilead (Previously Unreleased)
12-2
L'amour De Moi
12-3
Ode To Joy (Previously Unreleased)
12-4
The Orphan Girl (Previously unreleased)
12-5
Chassidic Chant (Previously Unreleased)
12-6
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (Previously Unreleased)
12-7
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Previously Unreleased)
12-8
Every Time I Feel de Spirit
12-9
I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound
12-10
Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
12-11
No More Auction Block (Previously Unreleased)
12-12
Scandalize My Name (Previously Unreleased)
12-13
Git On Board, Li’l Children
12-14
Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? = How Does The Czar Live? (Previously Unreleased)
12-15
An Eriskay Love Lilt (Previously Unreleased)
12-16
Eriskay Love Lilt – Encore (Previously Unreleased)
12-17
Song Of The Volga Boatmen
12-18
Song Of The Volga Boatmen – Encore (Previously Unreleased)
12-19
Water Boy (Previously Unreleased)
12-20
O No, John! (Previously Unreleased)
12-21
O Thou Silent Night (Previously Unreleased)
12-22
Joe Hill
12-23
Ol’ Man River
12-24
Let The Rail Splitter Awake (Poem, Previously Unreleased)
Othello The Moor Of Venice - A Tragedy In 5 Acts
Words By William Shakespeare