The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939

Compilation by Paul Robeson

Released 2008

classical jazz pop

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CD 1: The 1928-9 Sessions
1
Ol' Man River
3:53
2
Seem Lak' to Me
3:07
3
Down de Lovers' Lane
3:03
4
Scandalize My Name
2:10
5
Sinner, Please Doan' Let Dis Harves' Pass
2:07
6
Weepin' Mary
1:43
7
I Want to Be Ready
1:32
8
My Lord, What a Mornin'
2:52
9
De Li'l Piccaninny's Gone to Sleep
3:30
10
Git on Board, Li'l Children
1:17
11
Dere's No Hidin' Place
1:00
12
Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning / Carry Me Back to Old Virginia / Old Folks at Home / Goodnight Ladies
3:54
13
Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie / Poor Old Joe / Oh, Susanna / My Old Kentucky Home
4:18
14
Oh! Rock Me, Julie
1:35
15
Oh, Didn't It Rain
1:22
16
Mammy
3:51
17
Roll Away, Clouds
3:14
18
Sonny Boy
2:43
19
Little Pal
3:31
20
The Lonesome Road
2:45
21
Just Keepin' On
3:12
22
Mighty Lak' a Rose
3:27
23
Mammy Is Gone
3:23
CD 2: The 1930-31 Sessions
1
Hail de Crown
2:13
2
Exhortation
2:11
3
I Stood on the Ribber Jordan / Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
2:57
4
Go Down, Moses
2:06
5
High Water
2:36
6
Old Folks at Home
3:20
7
Poor Old Joe
3:11
8
My Old Kentucky Home
3:31
9
Ol' Man River
2:50
10
River Stay 'Way from My Door
3:30
11
Rockin' Chair
3:33
12
Medley of Spirituals: I'm Rolling and Sing-a-Ho / Hail de Crown / Joshua Fit fe 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
7:47
13
My Heart Is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
3:30
14
The Folks I Used to Know
2:53
15
Mary Had a Baby (Yes, Lord)
2:17
16
Lil' Gal
3:01
17
Bear de Burden / All God's Chillun Got Wings
3:32
18
That's Why Darkies Were Born
2:41
19
When It's Sleepy Time Down South
3:27
20
Seekin'
2:36
CD 3: The 1932-3 Sessions
1
Nearer, My God, to Thee
4:16
2
There Is a Green Hill
4:02
3
Ma Lindy Lou
3:17
4
Ma Curly-Headed Baby
3:05
5
Pilgrim's Song
2:40
6
Roll de Ole Chariot Along
2:44
7
Since You Went Away
3:10
8
Wid de Moon, Moon, Moon
3:32
9
Got the South in My Soul
3:03
10
Hush-a-Bye Lullaby
3:19
11
Round the Bend of the Road
2:57
12
Take Me Away from the River
3:00
13
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
2:51
14
On Ma Journey
2:10
15
Bye And Bye
2:30
16
Were You There?
2:48
17
Swing Along
3:22
18
Piccaninny Shoes
2:54
19
In a Narrow Street
2:49
20
Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
2:57
21
Lazy Bones
3:27
22
Blue Prelude
2:51
23
Paul Robeson Medley (Part 1): Roll de Ole Chariot / Mary Had a Baby / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Heav'n, Heav'n
4:06
24
Paul Robeson 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
4:09
CD 4: The 1933-6 Sessions
1
Fat Li'l Fella Wid His Mammy's Eyes
2:04
2
Shortnin' Bread
1:10
3
Snowball
3:22
4
Water Boy
2:40
5
Doan' You Cry, Ma Honey
3:37
6
Steal Away
3:04
7
Scarecrow
3:29
8
Wagon Wheels
3:27
9
So Shy
3:25
10
Piccaninny's Slumber Song
3:08
11
St. Louis Blues
3:33
12
Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
3:16
13
Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
3:20
14
I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming
2:51
15
The Banjo Song
3:08
16
Paul Robeson 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
8:46
17
Love Song
3:26
18
Congo Lullaby
3:11
19
Canoe Song
3:04
20
Killing Song
2:26
21
Shenandoah
3:19
22
Jes' Mah Song
2:30
23
De Ole Ark's a-Movering
1:05
24
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
1:20
25
Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
2:02
CD 5: The 1936-7 Sessions
1
Honey (Dat's All)
2:20
2
Gloomy Sunday
2:48
3
Ol' Man River
2:39
4
I Still Suits Me
2:49
5
Sleepy River
3:05
6
Lonely Road
3:20
7
Song of Freedom
2:42
8
The Black Emperor
2:50
9
Mam'selle Marie
1:57
10
Dere's No Hidin' Place
0:57
11
Oh! No, John
2:16
12
Passing By
2:24
13
Hammer Song
1:53
14
Lil' David
1:35
15
My Way
2:51
16
Golden River
2:07
17
Ho! Ho! (Wagon Song)
2:14
18
Climbing Up (Mountain Song)
3:14
19
Lazin'
2:51
20
I Don't Know What's Wrong
3:22
21
Roll Up, Sailorman
2:17
22
You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things
2:18
23
Deep Desert
3:01
24
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
2:24
25
Minstrel Man
0:30
26
The Wanderer
2:44
CD 6: The 1937-8 Sessions
1
Dere's a Man Goin' round Takin' Names
3:10
2
No More
2:32
3
Work All de Summer
1:36
4
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
1:07
5
Silent Night, Holy Night
3:29
6
All through the Night
3:26
7
Solitude
3:36
8
Mood Indigo
3:21
9
Summertime (Lullaby)
2:40
10
It Take a Long Pull to Get There
3:07
11
It Ain't Necessarily So
2:36
12
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
2:23
13
Just a-Wearyin' for You
2:39
14
At Dawning
2:25
15
Song of the Volga Boatmen
2:50
16
An Eriskay Love-Lilt
2:55
17
Encantadora Maria
2:43
18
Goin' to Ride up in de Chariot
1:02
19
Every Time I Feel de Spirit
1:19
20
Lay Down Late
2:29
21
After the Battle
2:23
22
David of the White Rock
3:28
23
Trees
2:31
24
Songs My Mother Taught Me
2:16
25
Loch Lomond
2:39
26
Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
3:28
CD 7: The 1939 Sessions
1
Down de Lovers' Lane
2:30
2
Lullaby
2:07
3
Night
2:54
4
The Little Black Boy
2:20
5
Dear Old Southland
2:57
6
Jerusalem
2:27
7
The Blind Ploughman
2:09
8
The Cobbler's Song
2:42
9
Oh, Could I But Express in Song
1:53
10
Love at My Heart
2:09
11
Nothin'
2:24
12
The Rosary
1:40
13
A Perfect Day
2:36
14
Absent
2:12
15
Black Eyes
2:33
16
Oh, Promise Me
2:39
17
Plaisir d'Amour
3:42
18
Sylvia
2:02
19
She Is Far from the Land
2:52
20
Thora
3:29
21
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
2:24
22
Sea Fever
2:12
23
Ebenezer
2:33
24
Land of My Fathers
2:26
25
Deep River
2:30
26
Lord God of Abraham; Baal Chorus
2:20