Spirituals (Paul Robeson album)

1946 studio album by Paul Robeson

Spirituals

Studio album by

Paul Robeson

Released| 1946
Recorded| 1945
Label| Columbia Masterworks
Paul Robeson chronology
| Songs of Free Men
(1943)  | Spirituals
(1946)  | A Robeson Recital of Popular Favourites
(1947)

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Spirituals (1946)Review scores

Source| Rating
Record Supplement| Positive[1]
Songs of Free Men / Spirituals
(budget LP, 1968)Review scores

Source| Rating
Billboard| [2]

Spirituals is a studio album by Paul Robeson, recorded in 1945 and released in 1946 on Columbia Masterworks. Robeson was accompanied by Lawrence Brown at the piano.

## Track listing

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The album was originally issued in 1946 as a set of four 10-inch 78-r.p.m. records, catalog number M 610.[1][3]

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Go Down Moses"|  |
2.| "Balm in Gilead"|  |
3.| "By an' By"|  |
4.| "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child"|  |
5.| "John Henry"|  |
6.| "Water Boy"| Robeson|
7.| "Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen"|  |
8.| "Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho"|  |

## References

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1. ^ a b Record Supplement. 1946.
Record Supplement. 1946.
"Record Supplement". Gramophone Shop, Inc., New York. 1946. "As a singer of spirituals, Paul Robeson is virtually unsurpassed. With the pianist Lawrence Brown, Mr. Robeson gives deeply moving interpretations of the following: Go Down Moses; Balm in Gilead; Sometimes I Feel Like a ..."
2. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 21, 1968.
3. ^ "Paul Robeson - Spirituals". Discogs. Retrieved April 7, 2023.

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Paul Robeson

* Discography
* Filmography

Films|

* Body and Soul (1925)
* Camille (1926)
* Borderline (1930)
* The Emperor Jones (1933)
* Sanders of the River (1935)
* Show Boat (1936)
* Song of Freedom (1936)
* Big Fella (1937)
* My Song Goes Forth (1937)
* King Solomon's Mines (1937)
* Jericho (1937)
* The Proud Valley (1940)
* Native Land (1942)
* Tales of Manhattan (1942)
* The Song of the Rivers (1954)
* The Tallest Tree in Our Forest (1977)
* Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979)
* Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am (1988)
* Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999)
* Paul Robeson: Songs of Freedom (2008)

Stage shows|

* Shuffle Along
* Show Boat
* Emperor Jones
* All God's Chillun Got Wings
* The Hairy Ape
* Othello
* 1930, London
* 1943, Broadway
* 1959, Stratford
* 1958 Carnegie Hall
* Plant in The Sun
* John Henry
* Peace Arch Concerts

Albums|

* Ballad for Americans
* Songs of Free Men
* Spirituals
* Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
* Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs
* Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall
* "Encore, Robeson!" (Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs, Vol. 2)

Songs|

* "Go Down Moses"
* "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" (1925)
* "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1926)
* "Ol' Man River" (1928)
* "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (1930)
* "That's Why Darkies Were Born" (1931)
* "Gloomy Sunday" (1936)
* "Just Awearyin' for You" (1938)
* "A Perfect Day" (1939)
* "Ballad for Americans" (1939)
* "Land of My Fathers" (1940)
* "Joe Hill"
* "On My Journey Now"

Activism
and history|

* Paul Robeson and the International Brigades
* Political views of Paul Robeson
* Council on African Affairs
* Civil Rights Congress
* American Crusade Against Lynching
* We Charge Genocide
* Progressive Party
* Freedomways
* Peekskill riots

Writings
and speeches|

* Freedom newspaper
* I Want to Be African
* Negroes—Don't Ape the Whites
* Negroes Should Join the CIO
* Time to Bring Negro Players Into the Major Leagues
* Never Again Can Colonialism Be What It Was
* Paul Robeson Congressional hearings
* Thoughts on Winning the Stalin Peace Prize
* To You Beloved Comrade
* Ho Chi Minh Is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China
* We Can Learn from the Struggle in South Africa
* Here I Stand
* Paul Robeson Speaks

Family
and friends|

* Eslanda Goode Robeson (wife)
* Paul Robeson Jr. (son)
* William Drew Robeson I (father)
* Lawrence Benjamin Brown
* Benjamin J. Davis Jr.
* Lloyd L. Brown
* Andrew Faulds
* W. E. B. Du Bois
* Shirley Graham Du Bois
* Clara Rockmore
* Revels Cayton
* Pete Seeger
* Ossie Davis

Associates|

* Carl Van Vechten
* Eugene O'Neill
* Elisabeth Welch
* Jomo Kenyatta
* Kwame Nkrumah
* Jawaharlal Nehru
* Itzik Feffer
* Howard Fast
* Henry Wallace
* Louis E. Burnham
* Uta Hagen
* Joe Louis
* Harry Belafonte
* Esther Cooper Jackson
* Max Yergan
* Pool Group
* Margaret Webster
* Tony Benn
* Nikita Khrushchev
* Will Paynter
* Bumpy Johnson
* Earl Robinson
* Walter Camp
* Peggy Ashcroft
* Martin Duberman
* Fania Marinoff

Locations|

* Rutgers University
* Priory Group
* Royal Shakespeare Company
* School of Oriental and African Studies
* Columbia Law School
* Moscow Conservatory
* Paul Robeson House (Philadelphia)
* Paul Robeson House (London)
* Paul Robeson Home
* Paul Robeson Theatre
* South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago
* Store Front Museum, New York

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