Paul Robeson - Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV (CD)

Limited 14CD box set. The ultimate tribute to Paul Robeson, singer, stage and film actor, all-American football player, lawyer, and advocate for civil rights. Blacklisted and erased from American history, many of Robeson's recordings in the U.S. remained unreleased - until now. Special 14-CD edition, documenting his complete major-label discography, recorded 1925-1947. First release of Robeson's groundbreaking Victor recordings on CD, 16 recordings reissued for the first time, 5 previously unreleased. First restoration of Robeson's famous 1944 Othello stage production with Uta Hagen and José Ferrer from the original 33 master disc sides. His complete remastered Columbia albums (Songs of Free Men, Popular Favorites, Spirituals). First release of his historic 1958 recitals at Mother A.M.E. Zion Church, New York, and Royal Albert Hall, with 30 previously unissued recordings. Richly illustrated 160-page book with essays by Shana L. Redmond and Susan Robeson, a wealth of photos and facsimiles from the archives of The Paul Robeson Trust, the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, and Columbia Records, plus complete discographical notes.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Were You There? (When They Crucified my Lord) (2024 Remastered Version)
2. Steal Away (2024 Remastered Version)
3. Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
4. Joshua fit the Battle ob Jericho (2024 Remastered Version)
5. Bye and Bye (I'm Goin' to Lay Down Dis Heavy Load) (2024 Remastered Version)
6. Water Boy (2024 Remastered Version)
7. Li'l Gal (2024 Remastered Version)
8. I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound (2024 Remastered Version)
9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (2024 Remastered Version)
10. On Ma Journey (2024 Remastered Version)
11. Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen (2024 Remastered Version)
12. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2024 Remastered Version)
13. Down de Lover's Lane (2024 Remastered Version)
14. Hear, de Lam's a-Cryin' (2024 Remastered Version)
15. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (2024 Remastered Version)
16. Deep River (2024 Remastered Version)
17. I'm Goin' to Tell God All O' My Troubles (2024 Remastered Version)
18. I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
19. Witness (2024 Remastered Version)
20. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat") (2024 Remastered Version)
21. Ballad for Americans (2024 Remastered Version)
22. I Got a Home in-a dat Rock (2024 Remastered Version)
23. Witness (2024 Remastered Version)

Disc: 2

1. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
2. Since You Went Away "Seems Lak To Me"
3. Down De Lover's Lane
4. Scandalize My Name
5. Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass
6. Weepin' Mary
7. I Want to Be Ready
8. My Lord What a Mornin'
9. De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep
10. Git on Board Li'l Children
11. Dere's No Hidin' Place
12. Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies
13. Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home
14. Oh! Rock Me Julie
15. Oh, Didn't It Rain
16. Mammy
17. Roll Away, Clouds (From "Virginia")
18. Sonny Boy (From the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")
19. Little Pal (From "Say It with Songs")
20. The Lonesome Road
21. Just Keepin' On
22. Mighty Lak' a Rose
23. Mammy is Gone

Disc: 3

1. Hail De Crown
2. Exhortation
3. I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring dem Bells
4. Go Down Moses
5. High Water
6. Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"
7. Poor Old Joe
8. My Old Kentucky Home
9. Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River"
10. River Stay 'way from My Door
11. Rockin' Chair
12. Medley of Spirituals
13. My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight
14. The Folks I Used to Know
15. Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")
16. Lil' Gal
17. Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing
18. That's Why Darkies Were Born (From "George White's Scandals of 1931")
19. When It's Sleepy Time Down South (From the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")
20. Seekin'

Disc: 4

1. Nearer, My God, to Thee
2. There is a Green Hill Far Away
3. Mah Lindy Lou
4. Ma Curly-Headed Babby
5. Pilgrim's Song
6. Roll the Old Chariot Along
7. Since You Went Away
8. Wid De Moon Moon Moon
9. Got the South in My Soul
10. Hush-a-bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"
11. Round the Bend of the Road
12. Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"
13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
14. On Ma Journey
15. Bye and Bye - I'm Goin' to Lay Down dis Heavy Load
16. Were You There?
17. Swing Along!
18. Piccaninny Shoes
19. In a Narrow Street
20. Carry Me Back to Green Pastures
21. Lazy Bones
22. Blue Prelude
23. Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n
24. Medley I, Pt. 2: Carry me Back - Mighty Lak' a Rose - Round the Bend of the Road - River Stay 'Way From my Door - O'l Man River

Disc: 5

1. Fat Li'l Feller wid His Mammy's Eyes
2. Short'nin' Bread
3. Snowball
4. Water Boy
5. Doan' You Cry Ma Honey
6. Steal Away
7. Scarecrow
8. Wagon Wheels
9. So Shy
10. Piccaninny Slumber Song
11. St. Louis Blues
12. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy
13. Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
14. I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin'
15. Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. The Banjo Song
16. Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home
17. Love Song (From "Sanders of the River")
18. Congo Lullaby (From "Sanders of the River")
19. Canoe Song (From "Sanders of the River")
20. Killing Song (From "Sanders of the River")
21. Shenandoah
22. Jes' Mah Song
23. De Ole Ark's A-Movering
24. Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
25. Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho

Disc: 6

1. Honey, Dat's All
2. Gloomy Sunday "Hungarian Suicide Song"
3. Ol' Man River (From "Show Boat")
4. Ah Still Suits Me (From "Show Boat")
5. Sleepy River (From "Song of Freedom")
6. Lonely Road (From "Song of Freedom")
7. Song of Freedom (From "Song of Freedom")
8. The Black Emperor (From "Song of Freedom")
9. Mam'selle Marie
10. Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere
11. Oh! No John!
12. Passing By: "There is a Lady Sweet and Kind"
13. Hammer Song
14. Li'l David
15. My Way (From "Jericho")
16. Golden River (From "Jericho")
17. The Wagon Song "Ho! Ho!" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
18. The Mountain Song "Climbing up" (From "King Solomon's Mines")
19. Lazin' (From "Big Fella")
20. I Don't Know What's Wrong (From "Big Fella")
21. Roll up Sailorman (From "Big Fella")
22. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (From "Big Fella")
23. Deep Desert (From "Jericho")
24. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
25. Minstrel Man
26. The Wanderer

Disc: 7

1. Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names
2. No More Auction Block
3. Work All de Summer
4. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
5. Silent Night, Holy Night
6. All Through the Night
7. Solitude
8. Mood Indigo
9. Summertime (From "Porgy and Bess")
10. It Take a Long Pull to Get There (From "Porgy and Bess")
11. It Ain't Necessarily So (From "Porgy and Bess")
12. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing (From "Porgy and Bess")
13. 7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose: 3. Just A-Wearyin' For You
14. At Dawning
15. Song of the Volga Boatmen
16. An Eriskay Love-Lilt
17. Encantadora Maria
18. Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot
19. Every Time I Feel de Spirit
20. Lay Down Late
21. Forgotten in E-Flat Minor
22. David of the White Rock
23. Trees
24. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4
25. Loch Lomond
26. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes

Disc: 8

1. Down de Lovers' Lane
2. Berceuse, Op. 1, No 5
3. O Thou Silent Night
4. The Little Black Boy (From "Songs of Innocence")
5. Dear Old Southland
6. Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time)
7. The Blind Ploughman
8. The Cobbler's Song (From "Chu Chin Chow - A Musical Tale of the East)
9. Oh, Could I But Express in Song
10. Love At My Heart
11. Nothin'
12. The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"
13. A Perfect Day
14. Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"
15. Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song
16. Oh Promise Me (From "Robin Hood")
17. Plaisir d'amour
18. Sylvia
19. She is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)
20. Thora
21. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
22. Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)
23. Ebenezer "Ton-y Botel"
24. Land of My Fathers
25. Deep River
26. Lord God of Abraham - Baal Chorus (From "Elijah")

Disc: 9

1. Quiet Flows the Don: From Border to Border (2024 Remastered Version)
2. Quiet Flows the Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don (2024 Remastered Version)
3. No for an Answer: The Purest Kind of Guy (Joe's Birhday Song) (2024 Remastered Version)
4. Joe Hill (2024 Remastered Version)
5. The Peat-Bog Soldiers (2024 Remastered Version)
6. The Four Insurgent Generals - Spanish Folk Song (2024 Remastered Version)
7. Song of the Plains "Meadowland" (2024 Remastered Version)
8. Native Land "Shiroka strana moya rodnaya" (2024 Remastered