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Paul Robeson: Songs of Struggle and Love - 2021 Album ( songs)
Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
Were You There
By and By
John Henry (feat. Lawrence Brown)
Joe Hill (feat. Lawrence Brown)
The Peat - Bog Soldiers (feat. Lawrence Brown)
Kevin Barry
Native Land (feat. Lawrence Brown)
The Four Insurgent Generals
Oh How Proud Our Quiet Don (feat. Lawrence Brown)
Sanders of the River - Killing Song
Sanders of the River - Congo Lullaby
At Dawning
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Steal Away to Jesus
Saint Louis Blues
Mah Lindy Lou
Cradle Song (feat. Lawrence Brown)
Passing By (feat. Lawrence Brown)
Big Fella - Lazin'
Thora
Love at My Heart
Encantadora Maria
The Proud Valley - Ebenezer
All Men Are Brothers
Song of the Plains "Polyushka Polye"
Soviet National Anthem
Jerusalem
Every Time I Feel the Spirit - 2018 Album ( songs)
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Balm in Gilead
Volga Boat Song
O Thou Silent Night
Going Home
Chinese Children's Song
Old Man River
My Curly Headed Baby
The Orphan
Christ Lag in Todesbanden
Lullaby
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Oh No, John
Joe Hill
Jacob's Ladder
Deep River
Jerusalem
Londonderry Air
Get on Board Little Children
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Loch Lomond
John Brown's Body
Shenandoah
The House I Live In
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
Water Boy
All Through the Night
Love Song - 2013 Album ( songs)
My Old Kentucky
Love Song
Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho
Ol' Man River
Song of Freedom
Deep River
Rockin Chair
Shenandoah
Ma Curly Headed Baby
Trees
Land of My Father
Water Boy
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
It Ain't Necessarily So
Mighty Laka Rose
Canoe Song
Mary Had a Baby, Yes, Lord (Remastered) - Single - 2013 Album ( songs)
Mary Had a Baby, Yes, Lord (Remastered)
His Last Recordings - 2013 Album ( songs)
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Christ lag in Todes Banden
O Isis und Osiris (Sarastro’s Aria from "The Magic Flute" – Act II)
All Men are Brothers (From "Ode to Joy")
Cradle Song (Schlafe, schlafe, holder, süsser Knabe)
The Orphan
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
The Song of Freedom
Songs My Mother Taught Me (From "Gypsy Melodies")
By the Waters of Babylon (From "Ten Biblical Songs")
Going Home
An Eriskay Love Lilt
Deep River
Water Boy
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
"Greatest Rarities" Archive '56-'57 - 2013 Album ( songs)
The Four Rivers
Hassidic Chant
The Minstrel Boy
Jerusalem
The House I Live In
Song of the Warsaw Ghetto
There’s a Man Going ‘Round Taking Names
Sleep Baby
Witness
Night
Passing By
Welcoming Speech By President of South Wales Miners (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
Reply to Welcoming Speech By Paul Robeson (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
All Through the Night (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
This Little Night of Mine (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
All Men Are Brothers (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
Schubert's Lullaby (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
Y Delyn Aur (The Golden Harp) [Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957]
Land of My Fathers (Excerpt) / We'll Keep a Welcome in the Hillside (Live From Transatlantic Exchange, 1957)
The Maestro Paul Robeson - 2013 Album ( songs)
Love Song
It Ain't Necessarily So
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Water Boy
Land of My Fathers
Ol' Man River
Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho
My Old Kentucky Home
River, Stay 'way From My Door
Shenandoah
Canoe Song
Mighty Like a Rose
Rockin' Chair
Swanee River
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Deep River
A B.B.C. Home Service programme broadcast on Sunday 4 October, 1959 - 2012 Album ( songs)
Ol' Man River (excerpt)
On Mah Journey Now, Mount Zion
Oh! What a Beautiful City
Talk About Rain (excerpt)
The Rio Grande
The Castle of Dromore
Greensleeves
Li'l Gal
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jehrico
Just a-Wearyin' For You (excerpt)
Ol' Man River (Original Recordings) - 2012 Album ( songs)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Original Recordings) - 2012 Album ( songs)
Lazy Bones (Original Recordings) - 2012 Album ( songs)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Remastered) - Single - 2012 Album ( songs)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Remastered)
Songs of New China: Mid Century Progressive Music - EP - 2012 Album ( songs)
Qi Lai!!
Chinese Farmers Song
Chinese Soldier's Song
Feng Yang
Song of the Guerillas
Work As One
An Evening With Paul Robeson - 2012 Album ( songs)
Some Enchanted Evening (From "South Pacific")
Mah Lindy Lou
Skye Boat Song
The Riddle Song (I Gave My Love a Cherry)
Down de Lovers' Lane
Land of My Fathers
I'll Walk Beside You
My Curly Headed Baby
Trees
The Castle of Dromore
Just a Wearyin' for You
Climbin' Up
When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Single - 2012 Album ( songs)
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Blue Prelude - Single - 2012 Album ( songs)
Blue Prelude
My Journey: Paul Robeson Live at Carnegie Hall - 2012 Album ( songs)
On My Journey
This is the Hammer
O Grieve You Now My Mother
Eriskay Love Lilt
The Minstrel Boy
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Freedom
Patterns of Folk Song
Chassidic Chant of Levi Isaac
Scandalize My Name
Go Down Moses
Viz Azoy Trinkt Des Kaiser Tay
Mexican Lullabye
The Four Rivers
Let the Railsplitter Awake
Ode to Joy
Ol' Man River - Single - 2011 Album ( songs)
Ol' Man River
Ol' Man Paul Robeson - 2011 Album ( songs)
Ol' Man River (Film Version)
Gloomy Sunday
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
The Cobbler's Song
Honey Dat's All
John Henry
Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy & Bess")
Sylvia
I Still Suits Me (Stage Version)
Wagon Wheels
The Banjo Song
She Is Far from the Land
Ma Curly-Headed Babby
River Stay 'Way from My Door
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Ol Man River (London Stage Version)
Mammy's Little Kinky Headed Boy
Water Boy
Rockin' Chair
The House I Live In
An Eriskay Love Lilt
Mah Lindy Lou
Go Down Moses
At Dawning
By an' By
Lazy Bones
Ol' Man River - 2011 Album ( songs)
Ol' Man River
Intro
Got the South in My Soul
St. Louis Blues
The Banjo Song
I Still Suits Me
Summertime
Just a Ewarin' for You
An Eriskay Love Lilt
Down the Lovers Lane
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
Sea Fever
Thora
Rehearsal Scene
Dear Old Southland
Jerusalem
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Love At My Heart
King Joe
Mah Lindy Lou
Sylvia
Balm in Gilead
Goin' Home
Oh, No, John!
Joe Hill
Love at My Heart - 2010 Album ( songs)
Joe Hill
Dear Old Southland
Jerusalem
Rehearsal Scene
Thora
Got the South in My Soul
The Banjo Song
Summertime
I Still Suits Me
Just a Wearin' for You
Down de Lovers Lane
Sea Fever
Lazy Bone, Fat Lil Fellar Wid His Mamy's Eyes, Scarecrow, Wagon Wheel
Ol' Man River
Love at My Heart
Sylvia
Going Home
Oh, No, John
Balm in Gilead
Mah Lindy Lou
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
King Joe (The Joe Louis Blues)
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
An Eriskay Love Lilt
St. Louis Blues
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes - 2010 Album ( songs)
Ol Man River (London Stage Version)
I Still Suits Me
At Dawning
Rockin' Chair
Mammy's Little Kinky Headed Boy
The Banjo Song
An Eriskay Love Lilt
River Stay 'way From My Door
The Cobbler's Song
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
Lazy Bones
She Is Far From the Land
Gloomy Sunday
Honey Dat's All
Go Down Moses
Balm in Gelead
By An' by
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
John Henry
Water Boy
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho
Ol' Man River (Film Version)
I Still Suits Me (Stage Version)
Ma Curly-headed Babby
Mah Lindy Lou
The House I Live in
Wagon Wheels
Sylvia
It Ain't Necessarily So (From Porgy & Bess)
Timeless Voices: Paul Robeson Vol 2 - 2010 Album ( songs)
Steal Away
My Old Kentucky Home
Old Folks at Home
Summertime
It Ain't Necessary So
The Rosary
All Through the Night
Plaisir D'Amour
A Perfect Day
Mah Lindy Lou
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
An Eriskay Love Lilt
Now Sweeps the Crimson Petal
Carry me back to green Pastures
Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Timeless Voices: Paul Robeson Vol 1 - 2010 Album ( songs)
Ol' Man River (1936 version)
I Still Suits Me (from "Showboat")
Rockin' Chair
Water Boy
By and By
Canoe Song
Shenandoah
River Stay 'Way From my Door
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Medley: Fat Lil Feller/Shortnin' Bread
Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
Just a Wearin' for You
Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes
Mighty Lak a Rose
Passing By
Ol Man River (1928 version)
Timeless Voices: Paul Robeson Vol 3 - 2010 Album ( songs)
Ma Curly Headed Baby
Little Man You've Had a Busy Day
Lazy Bones
Mood Indigo
Deep River
The Killing Song
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Land of my Fathers
Trees
Sylvia
Wagon Wheels
No John, No
At Dawning
That's Why Darkies were Born
St Louis Blues
Going Home - 2009 Album ( songs)
Going Home
Star Vicino
Words Like Freedom - 2008 Album ( songs)
Growing Up in Princeton, NJ (Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson)
I Come from a Slave Father (Speech for Marine Cooks & Stewards)
It's Time We Woke Up (Australian Recording, 1961)
Oneness of Mankind
To the People of Manchester (Excerpt from Here I Stand)
Proof of the Pudding (From "It's Good to Be Back" by Freedomways)
Freedom for the People of Africa (Interview in Oakland)
To My Friends in the Bay Area (Message to the Bay Area)
Passport Statement (Passport Statement 1955)
Huac Hearing
Power of Negro Action (Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson)
Communists (Harlem Speech 1949)
We've Got to Unify (Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson)
Impatient (Interview with Sid Rogers)
Freedom Train (Welsh Transatlantic Concert)
Black Militancy (Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson)
Lesser Evil (Speech for Progressive Party)
Deep South (Speech with Henry Wallace)
Hands on the Plough (Speech with MCS Union)
Children Bearing the Burden (San Francisco Speech 1951)
Fighting for a Peaceful World (Taped Message to MCS 1952)
Never Been So Proud (Live Speech to MCS 1951)
Older Paul (Freedomways event, 1965)
Fruits of Our Labors (Taped speech to MCS Union)
Art is a Weapon (Interview with Elsa Knight Thompson)
Mezcla
Going Home - 2008 Album ( songs)
Everytime I Feel the Spirit
Fat Li'l Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes
Going Home
Hasidic Chant
High Water
I Don't Know What's Wrong
Joe Hill
Just a Wearyin' for You
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
Mammy's Little Kinky Headed Boy
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
O Isis and Osiris (from Die Zauberfloete)
Absent - 2008 Album ( songs)
Absent
An Eriskay Love Lilt [orchestral Accompaniment]
Ballad for Americans (Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
By the Waters of Babylon
Chinese Children's Song
Christ Lag In Todesbanden
Comments On Languages and Music of Many Lands
Congo Lullaby
My Curly Headed Baby
Dans Le Printemps de Mes Annees
Medley: de Old Ark's a Moverin' / Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott
Star Vicino - 2008 Album ( songs)
Spoken Excerpt from 1952 Paul Robeson Birthday Celebration
Star Vicino
Szivenem
That's Why Darkies Were Born
The House I Live In
Ode to Joy
Wagon Wheels
You Didn't Ought to Do Such Things
So Shy - 2008 Album ( songs)
The Orphan
Othello, Last Speech
Prayer and Death (from Boris Godunov)
Roll Up, Sailorman
Scarecrow
Schlafe, Schlafe, Holder, Suesser Knabe
Snowball
So Shy
Song of the Fatherland
Songs My Mother Taught Me
20 Songs & Transatlantic Exchange - 2007 Album ( songs)
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Kevin Barry
Ode to Joy
There's a Man Going Round Takin' Names
Song of the Warsaw Ghetto
The Volga Boat Song
John Brown's Body
Madrid
The Ballad of Joe Hill
Ol' Man River
Crimson Petal
Spanish Lullaby
Night
All Through the Night
Oh Mistress Mine
Turn Ye to Me
The Minstrel Boy
Riddle Song
What Is America to Me?
Danny Boy
Introduction
Wil Paynter
Greetings from New York
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
All Through the Night
This Little Light of Mine
Ode to Joy
Lullaby
Wil Paynter
Y Delyn Aur
Thanks
Land of My Fathers
We'll Keep a Welcome
End Piece
On My Journey: Paul Robeson's Independent Recordings - 2007 Album ( songs)
On My Journey: Mount Zion
Scandalize My Name
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Hassidic Chant: Kaddish
We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Songs My Mother Taught Me
The Minstrel Boy
The Orphan
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Vi Azoi Lebt Der Keyser
Witness
Hammer Song
Water Me from the Lime Rock
Let Us Break Bread Together On Our Knees
Amazing Grace
Shlof, Mein Kind (Sleep, My Child)
Skye Boat Song
Wanderer
I'm Gonna Let It Shine
Stand Still Jordan
Takin' Names
Dans Le Printemps de Mes Années
Passing By
Mistress Mine
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Li'l Gal
Kevin Barry
Zot Nit Keynmol (Song of the Warsaw Ghetto)
Joe Hill
Zvornost
Bear the Burden In the Heat of the Day
No More Auction Block for Me
A Man and His Beliefs - 2006 Album ( songs)
Mammy
Nothin'
The Blind Ploughman
Snowball
Old Folks At Home
Poor Old Joe - Old Black Joe
Lonesome Road
Dear Old Southland
Sleepy Time Down South
Loch Lomand
Roll Away Clouds
Ho Ho - Wagon Song
Just Keepin' On
Climbing Up
Down de Lover's Lane
All Through the Night
The Originals: Spirituals (Remastered) - 2006 Album ( songs)
Water Boy
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Shenandoah
Balm In Gilead
John Brown's Body
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Little Children, Get On Board
Deep River
Go Down Moses
John Henry
Bye an' Bye
Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen
Ballad For Americans - 2006 Album ( songs)
Shenandoah
Deep River
Go Down, Moses
On My Journey
Water Boy
The Minstrel Boy
Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Loch Lomond
Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
Get on Board Little Children
Scandalize My Name
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Eriskay Love Lilt
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Mexican Lullaby
All Through the Night
Jerusalem
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
The Four Rivers
John Browns Body
The House I Live in
Ballad for Americans
Live At Carnegie Hall, 1958 - 2006 Album ( songs)
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Balm In Gilead
Volga Boat Song
Monologue from Shakespeares Othello
O Thou Silent Night
Chinese Childrens Song
My Curley Headed Baby
Old Man River
Going Home
Monologue from Boris Gudonov
The Orphan
Christ Lag In Todesbanden
Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel
Lullaby
O No, John
Joe Hill
Jacobs Ladder
Chassidic Melody
Freedom
O Grieve You Now My Mother
This Is the Hammer
All Men Are Brothers
Paul Robeson - Great Voices of the Century - 2005 Album ( songs)
Love Song
Mighty Like A Rose
I'm Gonna Tell God All O' My Troubles
Passing By
Song of Freedom
St. Louis Blues
Honey (Dat's All)
Killing Song
Oh! No, John
Carry Me Back To Green Pastures
Trees
Sylvia
At Dawning
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Down De Lover's Lane
The Cobbler's Song
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
That's Why Darkies Were Born
Joshua Fit De' Battle Of Jericho
The Black Emperor
Ol' Man River
The Great Paul Robeson - 2005 Album ( songs)
Round the Bend of the Road
By and By
Canoe Song
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
Mood Indigo
Just a Wearyin' for You
Deep River
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Passing By
The Cobbler's Song
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Oh ! No John
Just Dreaming
Lonely Road
So Shy
Little Man You've Just Had a Busy Day
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
A Dawning
Wagon Wheels Trees
Trees
Were You There
Voice of the People - 2001 Album ( songs)
Ol' Man River (Showboat)
Canoe Song (Sanders of the River)
All God's Chillun Got Wings
Shortnin' Bread
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Lazybones
All Through the Night
Land of My Fathers
River Stay Away from My Door
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
Killing Song (Sanders of the River)
Congo Lullaby (Sanders of the River)
I Still Suits Me (Duet from Showboat)
Lonesome Road
Rockin' Chair
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
Old Folks At Home - "Swanee River"
Song of the Volga Boatmen
Joshua Fit' the Battle of Jericho
Shenandoah
Mighty Lak' a Rose
It Ain't Necessarily So
Water Boy
David of the White Rock
The Black Emperor (Song of Freedom)
Ma Curly-Headed Baby
Deep River
Freedom Train and the Welsh Transatlantic Concert (Live) - 1998 Album ( songs)
The Peace Arch Concerts (Live) - 1998 Album ( songs)
Songs of Free Men - 1997 Album ( songs)
Balm In Gilead
Chassidic Chant
From Border to Border from Quiet Flows the Don
Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don from Quiet Flows the Don
The Lord God of Abraham, from Elijah, Op. 70
The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birthday Song) From the Opera No for an Answer
Joe Hill
The Peat-Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten - Song from a German Concentration Camp)
The Four Insurgent Generals
Native Land
Song of the Plains
Cradle Song
Within Four Walls
By An' By
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
John Henry
Water Boy
My Curly Headed Baby
Mah Lindy Lou
Wagon Wheels
The House I Live In
I Still Suits Me from Showboat
Sylvia
Ol' Man River from Showboat
It Ain't Necessarily So
The Inimitable Paul Robseon - 1996 Album ( songs)
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
The Lonesome Road
Hush-A-Bye Lullaby
All Through the Night
Little Man You've Had a Busy Day
Wagon Wheels
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dream
Shenandoah
Song of the Volga Boatman
Roll Away Clouds
So Shy
Dear Old Southland
Blue Prelude
Round the Bend of the Road
King Joe, Pt. 1
King Joe, Pt. 2
Rockin' Chair
Solitude
Nothin'
Got the South In My Soul
St. Louis Blues
A Perfect Day
Ma Curly-Headed Babby
All God's Chillun Got Wings
Lazy Bones
The Power and the Glory - 1991 Album ( songs)
By 'n' By
Sometimes I Fell Like a Motherless Child
John Henry
Waterboy
Go Down, Moses
Balm In Gilead
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Every Time I Feel the Spirit
I Got a Home In Dat Rock / Gimme Your Han'
No More Auction Block / Great Gettin' Up Morning
Hear da Lam's a Cryin' / Going to Ride Up In de Chariot
I'll Hear de Trumpet / Ezekial Saw de Wheel
Poor Wayfarin' Stranger / Hammer Song
Dere's a Man Goin' Round / I Know de Lord
Git On Board, Little Chillun / L'il David
A Man and His Beliefs - 1971 Album ( songs)
Mammy
Nothin'
The Blind Ploughman
Snowball
Old Folks at Home
Poor Old Joe (Old Black Joe)
Lonesome Road
Dear Old Southland
Sleepy Time Down South
Loch Lomond
Roll Away Clouds
Ho Ho (Wagon Song)
Just Keepin' On
Climbing Up
Down De Lover's Lane
All Through the Night
Robeson - -0001 Album ( songs)
Water Boy
Shenandoah
Deep River
John Brown's Body
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Get On Board, Little Children
The House I Live In
Loch Lomond
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes