Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs | |
---|---|
Studio album by | |
Released | 1959 |
Label | Monitor |
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Billboard | Positive ("Spotlight" pick)[1] |
Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs is a studio album by Paul Robeson, released on Monitor in 1959.[2]
Track listing
The album was originally issued in 1959 as a long-playing record, catalog numbers MP 580 (mono) and MPS 580 (stereo).[1][2]
Robeson is accompanied by Alan Booth on piano (except where indicated).
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Comments | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Hammer Song" | with Sonny Terry, harmonica, Brownie McGhee, guitar | ||
2. | "Water Me from the Lime Rock" | |||
3. | "Scandalize My Name" | arranged by H. T. Burleigh | ||
4. | "Jacob's Ladder" | |||
5. | "Witness" | arranged by Lawrence Brown | ||
6. | "Stand Still, Jordan" | |||
7. | "Takin' Names" | |||
8. | "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Comments | Length |
---|---|---|---|---|
1. | "Hassidic Chant: Kaddish" | arranged by J. Engel | ||
2. | "Wanderer" (Finnish folk song) | arranged by Selim Palmgren | ||
3. | "Songs My Mother Taught Me" | Antonín Dvořák | ||
4. | "Vi azoi lebt der keyser" (Yiddish folk song) | Lawrence Brown, piano Sung in Yiddish | ||
5. | "The Minstrel Boy" (English ballad) | words by Thomas Moore | ||
6. | "The Orphan" | Modest Mussorgsky | Sung in Russian | |
7. | "Zog nit keynmol" (Song of the Warsaw Ghetto) | arranged by Lawrence Brown | Sung in English and Yiddish | |
8. | "Joe Hill" | Earl Robinson and Alfred Hayes |
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.