The Early Victor And RCA Recordings 1925–1940
1-1 Were You There?
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
1-2 Steal Away
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-3 Water Boy (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By – Avery Robinson
1-4 Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-5 Bye And Bye
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
1-6 Water Boy
Arranged By – Avery Robinson
1-7 Li’l Gal
Composed By – J. Rosamond Johnson*
Text By – Paul Laurence Dunbar
1-8 I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-9 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-10 On Ma Journey
Arranged By – Edward Boatner
1-11 Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-12 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-13 Down De Lover’s Lane (Previously Unreleased)
Composed By – Will Marion Cook
Text By – Paul Laurence Dunbar
1-14 Hear, De Lam’s A-Cryin’
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-15 Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-16 Deep River
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
1-17 I’m Goin’ To Tell God All O’ My Troubles
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-18 I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-19 Witness
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-20 Ol’ Man River
Composed By – Jerome Kern
Libretto By – Oscar Hammerstein II
1-21 Ballad For Americans
Composed By – Earl Robinson
Text By – John Latouche
1-22 I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
1-23 Witness (Previously Unreleased)
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
The HMV Recordings 1928–1929
2-1 Ol’ Man River
Composed By – Jerome Kern
Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein II
2-2 Since You Went Away (Seems Lak To Me)
Composed By – John Rosamond Johnson
Lyrics By – James Weldon Johnson
2-3 Down De Lover’s Lane
Composed By – Will Marion Cook
Lyrics By – Paul Laurence Dunbar
2-4 Scandalize My Name
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
2-5 Sinner, Please Doan’ Let Dis Harves’ Pass
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
2-6 Weepin’ Mary
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
2-7 I Want To Be Ready
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
2-8 My Lord, What A Mornin’
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
2-9 De Li’l Piccaninny’s Gone To Sleep
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
2-10 Git On Board, Li’l Children
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
2-11 Dere’s No Hidin’ Place
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
2-12 Plantation Songs - Part 1
2-13 Plantation Songs - Part 2
2-14 Oh! Rock Me, Julie
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
2-15 Oh, Didn’t It Rain
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
2-16 Mammy
Composed By – Joseph Tunbridge
2-17 Roll Away, Clouds
Arranged By – Paul Robeson
Composed By – Jack Waller, Joseph Tunbridge
2-18 Sonny Boy
Composed By – Buddy G. De Sylva, Ray Henderson
Lyrics By – Lew Brown
2-19 Little Pal
Composed By – Buddy G. De Sylva, Ray Henderson
Lyrics By – Lew Brown
2-20 The Lonesome Road
Composed By – Nathaniel Shilkret
2-21 Just Keepin’ On
Composed By – Alexander Phillips
2-22 Mighty Lak’ A Rose
Composed By – Ethelbert Nevin
2-23 Mammy Is Gone
Composed By – Buddy G. De Sylva, Ray Henderson
Lyrics By – Lew Brown
The HMV Recordings 1930–1931
3-1 Hail The Crown
Arranged By – Avery Robinson
3-2 Exhortation
Composed By – Will Marion Cook
3-3 I Stood On The Ribber Jordan / Peter Go Ring Dem Bells
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
3-4 Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
3-5 High Water
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
3-6 Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
Composed By – Stephen Foster
3-7 Poor Old Joe
Composed By – Stephen Foster
3-8 My Old Kentucky Home
Composed By – Stephen Foster
3-9 Ol’ Man River
Composed By – Jerome Kern
Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein II
3-10 River Stay ’way From My Door
Composed By – Harry Woods (2)
3-11 Rockin’ Chair
Composed By – Hoagy Carmichael
3-12 Medley Of Spirituals
3-13 My Heart Is Where The Mohawk Flows Tonight
Composed By – Carson Robison
3-14 The Folks I Used To Know
Composed By – Donald Chadwick*
3-15 Mary Had A Baby (Yes, Lord)
Arranged By – Hal Johnson
3-16 Li’l Gal
Composed By – John Rosamond Johnson
3-17 Bear De Burden / All God’s Chillun Got Wings
Arranged By – James Weldon Johnson
3-18 That’s Why Darkies Were Born
Composed By – Ray Henderson
3-19 When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
Composed By – Clarence Muse, Leon René*, Otis René*
3-20 Seekin’
Composed By – Marshall/Hall*
The HMV Recordings 1932–1933
4-1 Nearer, My God, To Thee
Composed By – Lewis Carey*
Lyrics By – Sarah Adams*
4-2 There Is A Green Hill Far Away
Composed By – Charles Gounod
4-3 Mah Lindy Lou
Composed By – Lily Strickland
4-4 Ma Curly-Headed Babby
Composed By – George Clutsam
4-5 Pilgrim’s Song
Arranged By – Ruthland Clapham
4-6 Roll de Ole Chariot Along
Arranged By – Ruthland Clapham
4-7 Since You Went Away (Seems Lak To Me)
Composed By – John Rosamond Johnson
Lyrics By – James Weldon Johnson
4-8 Wid De Moon, Moon, Moon
Composed By – Will Marion Cook
Lyrics By – William Moore (2)
4-9 Got The South In My Soul
Composed By – Victor Young
Lyrics By – Lee Wiley, Ned Washington
4-10 Hush-a-bye Lullaby
Composed By – Ruthland Clapham
4-11 Round The Bend Of The Road
Composed By – John Klenner
4-12 Take Me Away From The River
Composed By – Kay Lois Parker
4-13 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
4-14 On Ma Journey
Arranged By – Edward Boatner
4-15 Bye And Bye (I’m Goin’ To Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
4-16 Were You There?
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
4-17 Swing Along!
Composed By – Will Marion Cook
4-18 Piccaninny Shoes
Composed By – Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
4-19 In A Narrow Street
Composed By – Berwick*, Warren*
4-20 Carry Me Back To Green Pastures
Composed By – Harry Stephen Pepper
4-21 Lazy Bones
Composed By – Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics By – Johnny Mercer
4-22 Blue Prelude
Composed By – Joe Bishop
Lyrics By – Gordon Jenkins
4-23 Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 1
4-24 Paul Robeson Medley No. 1 - Part 2
The HMV Recordings 1933–1936
5-1 A Fat Li’l’ Feller Wid His Mammy’s Eyes
Composed By – Sheridan Gordon
Lyrics By – Frank L. Stanton*
5-2 Short’nin’ Bread
Composed By – Jaques Wolfe
Lyrics By – Clement Wood
5-3 Snowball
Composed By – Hoagy Carmichael
5-4 Water Boy
Arranged By – Avery Robinson
5-5 Doan’ You Cry, Ma Honey
Composed By – Albert W. Noll
5-6 Steal Away
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
5-7 Scarecrow (Scared T’ Go T’ Bed)
Composed By – Charles McCarthy, John Redmond (2), Nat Simon
5-8 Wagon Wheels
Composed By – Peter de Rose
Lyrics By – Billy Hill
5-9 So Shy
Composed By – Walter G. Samuels*
Lyrics By – Allen Boretz
5-10 Piccaninny Slumber Song (Little Alabama Coon)
Composed By – James Kendis
Lyrics By – Hattie Starr
5-11 St. Louis Blues
Composed By – William Christopher Handy*
5-12 Mammy’s Little Kinky-Headed Boy
Composed By – George J. Trinkhaus*
Lyrics By – Joseph M. White
5-13 Little Man, You’ve Had A Busy Day
Composed By – Mabel Wayne
Lyrics By – Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler
5-14 I Ain’t Lazy – I’m Just Dreamin’
Composed By – Dave Franklin
5-15 The Banjo Song
Composed By – Sidney Homer
Lyrics By – Howard Weeden
5-16 Paul Robeson Medley No. 2
Music From The Film Sanders Of The River
Composed By – Mischa Spoliansky
Lyrics By – Arthur Wimperie
5-17 Love Song
5-18 Congo Lullaby
5-19 Canoe Song
5-20 Killing Song
5-21 Shenandoah
Arranged By – Richard R. Terry*
5-22 Jes’ Mah Song
Composed By – Lily Strickland
5-23 De Ole Ark’s A-Movering
Arranged By – James Weldon Johnson
5-24 Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
5-25 Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
The HMV Recordings 1936–1937
6-1 Honey, Dat’s All
6-2 Gloomy Sunday
Music From The Film Show Boat
6-3 Ol’ Man River
6-4 Ah Still Suits Me
Music From The Film The Song Of Freedom
6-5 Sleepy River
6-6 Lonely Road
6-7 Song Of Freedom
6-8 The Black Emperor
6-9 Mam’selle Marie
6-10 Dere’s No Hidin’ Place Down Dere
6-11 O No, John!
6-12 Passing By
6-13 Hammer Song
6-14 Li’l David
Music From The Film Jericho
6-15 My Way
6-16 Golden River
Music From The Film King Solomon’s Mines
6-17 Ho! Ho! (The Wagon Song)
6-18 Climbing Up (The Mountain Song)
Music From The Film Big Fella
6-19 Lazin’
6-20 I Don’t Know What’s Wrong
6-21 Roll Up, Sailorman
6-21 You Didn’t Oughta Do Such Things
6-22 You Didn’t Oughta Do Such Things
6-23 Deep Desert
6-24 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
6-25 Minstrel Man
6-26 The Wanderer
The HMV Recordings 1937-1938
7-1 Dere’s A Man Goin’ Roun’ Takin’ Names
7-2 No More Auction Block
7-3 Work All De Summer
7-4 Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
7-5 Silent Night
7-6 All Through The Night
7-7 Solitude
7-8 Mood Indigo
Porgy And Bess
7-9 Summertime
7-10 It Take A Long Pull To Get There (Oh, I’m A-goin’ Out To The Blackfish Banks)
7-11 It Ain’t Necessarily So
7-12 A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
7-13 Just A-Wearyin’ For You
7-14 At Dawning (I Love You)
7-15 Song Of The Volga Boatmen
7-16 An Eriskay Love Lilt
7-17 Encantadora Maria
7-18 Goin’ To Ride Up In De Chariot
7-19 Every Time I Feel De Spirit
7-20 Lay Down Late
7-21 Forgotten
7-22 David Of The White Rock = Dafydd y Garreg Wen
7-23 Trees
7-24 Songs My Mother Taught Me Op. 55/4
Composed By – Antonín Dvořák
7-25 Loch Lomond
7-26 Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
8-1 Down De Lover’s Lane
8-2 Berceuse Op. 1/5
Lyrics By – Mikhail Lermontow*
Music By – Alexander Gretchaninov
8-3 O Thou Silent Night
8-4 The Little Black Boy (Poem)
8-5 Dear Old Southland
8-6 Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time)
Music By – Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Words By – William Blake
8-7 The Blind Ploughman
8-8 The Cobbler’s Song
8-9 Oh, Could I But Express In Song
8-10 Love At My Heart
8-11 Nothin’
8-12 The Rosary
8-13 A Perfect Day
8-14 Absent
8-15 Black Eyes
8-16 Oh, Promise Me Op. 50
Composed By – Reginald de Koven
8-17 Plaisir D’amour
8-18 Sylvia
8-19 She Is Far From The Land
8-20 Thora
8-21 Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal Op. 3/2
Composed By – Roger Quilter
8-22 Sea Fever
Music From The Film The Proud Valley
8-23 Ebenezer (Ton-y-Botel)
8-24 Land Of My Fathers (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau)
8-25 Deep River
8-26 Elijah Op. 70
Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn*
The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1942/1947
Songs Of Free Men
Quiet Flows The Don (Tikhiy Don)
Composed By – Ivan Dzerzhinsky*
9-1 From Border To Border
9-2 Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
9-3 The Purest Kind of Guy
Composed By – Marc Blitzstein
9-4 Joe Hill
Composed By – Earl Robinson
Lyrics By – Alfred Hayes
9-5 Peat Bog Soldiers = Die Moorsoldaten
Composed By – Hanns Eisler, Rudi Goguel
Lyrics By – Johann Esser, Wolfgang Langhoff
9-6 The Four Insurgent Generals
Composed By – Traditional
9-7 Song Of The Plains (Meadowland)
Composed By – Lev Knipper*
9-8 Native Land (Shiroka Strana Moya Rodnaya)
Composed By – Isaak Dunayevsky*
9-9 Balm In Gilead
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
9-10 Chassidic Chant
Composed By – Lehman Engel
9-11 Lord God Of Abraham, Isaac And Israel
Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Translated By – William Bartholomew
9-12 Berceuse Op. 1/5
Composed By – Alexander Gretchaninov
Lyrics By – Mikhail Lermontow*
9-13 Within Four Walls
Composed By – Modest Mussorgsky
Lyrics By – Modest Mussorgsky, Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov*
9-14 Song Of The Plains (Meadowland) (Previously Unreleased)
Composed By – Lev Knipper*
A Robeson Recital Of Popular Favorites
Music From The Film Show Boat
Composed By – Jerome Kern
Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein II
9-15 Ol’ Man River
9-16 Ah Still Suits Me
9-17 Ma Curly-Headed Babby
Composed By – George Clutsam
9-18 Mah Lindy Lou
Composed By – Lily Strickland
9-19 The House I Live In (That’s America To Me)
Composed By – Earl Robinson
Lyrics By – Lewis Allan
9-20 Wagon Wheels
Composed By – Peter de Rose
Lyrics By – Billy Hill
9-21 Sylvia
Composed By – Oley Speaks
Lyrics By – Clinton Scollard
9-22 It Ain’t Necessarily So
Composed By – George Gershwin
9-23 King Joe (Joe Louis Blues)
Composed By – Count Basie
9-24 Ol’ Man River
Composed By – Jerome Kern
Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein II
The Columbia Masterworks Recordings 1945/1947
Spirituals - A Robeson Recital Of Popular Favorites
10-1 Go Down, Moses (Let My People Go)
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
10-2 Balm In Gilead
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
10-3 Bye And Bye (I’m Goin’ To Lay Down Dis Heavy Load)
Arranged By – Harry T. Burleigh
10-4 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-5 John Henry
Arranged By – Hall Johnson
10-6 Water Boy
Arranged By – Avery Robinson
10-7 Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-8 Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
10-9 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-10 Every Time I Feel De Spirit
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-11 I Got A Home In-a Dat Rock
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-12 O Gimme Your Han’
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-13 No More Auction Block
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-14 Great Gittin’ Up Mornin’
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-15 Hear, De Lam’s A-Cryin’
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-16 Goin’ To Ride Up In De Chariot
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-17 I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-18 Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-19 Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-20 Hammer Song
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-21 Dere’s A Man Goin’ ’Round
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-22 I Know De Lord
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-23 Git On Board, Li’l Children
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
10-24 Li’l David
Arranged By – Lawrence Brown (4)
Paul Robeson Live In New York 1958 - New York City, Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, June 1, 1958
11-1 Over The Mountains (Love Will Find Out The Way) (Previously Unreleased)
11-2 Balm In Gilead (Previously unreleased)
11-3 Freedom (Previously Unreleased)
11-4 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, BWV 80 (Previously Unreleased)
Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
11-5 Ode To Joy (Previously Unreleased)
11-6 O No, John! (Previously unreleased)
11-7 An Eriskay Love Lilt (Previously Unreleased)
11-8 In a Place Far, Far Away
11-9 Comments On Languages And Music Of Many Lands (Previously Unreleased)
Narrator – Paul Robeson
11-10 Gospodi! Gospodi! Vozzri, Molyu (Previously Unreleased)
11-11 Othello, The Moor Of Venice: Soft You, A Word Or Two Before You Go (Previously Unreleased)
11-12 Introduction To
11-13 Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (Previously Unreleased)
11-14 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
11-15 No More Auction Block
11-16 Water Boy
11-17 The Four Insurgent Generals (Previously Unreleased)
11-18 We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
11-19 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
11-20 Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? = How Does The Czar? (Previously Unreleased)
11-21 Hush, My Pretty Baby = Duermete, Niño Lindo (Previously Unreleased)
11-22 Closing Words (Previously Unreleased)
Speech – Paul Robeson
11-23 Joe Hill (Previously Unreleased)
11-24 The House I Live In (That’s America To Me)
Paul Robeson Live In London 1958 - London, Royal Albert Hall, August 10, 1958
12-1 Balm In Gilead (Previously Unreleased)
12-2 L'amour De Moi
12-3 Ode To Joy (Previously Unreleased)
12-4 The Orphan Girl (Previously unreleased)
12-5 Chassidic Chant (Previously Unreleased)
12-6 Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (Previously Unreleased)
12-7 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Previously Unreleased)
12-8 Every Time I Feel De Spirit
12-9 I’ll Hear The Trumpet Sound
12-10 Ezekiel Saw De Wheel
12-11 No More Auction Block (Previously Unreleased)
12-12 Scandalize My Name (Previously Unreleased)
12-13 Git On Board, Li’l Children
12-14 Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser? = How Does The Czar Live? (Previously Unreleased)
12-15 An Eriskay Love Lilt (Previously Unreleased)
12-16 Eriskay Love Lilt – Encore (Previously Unreleased)
12-17 Song Of The Volga Boatmen
12-18 Song Of The Volga Boatmen – Encore (Previously Unreleased)
12-19 Water Boy (Previously Unreleased)
12-20 O No, John! (Previously Unreleased)
12-21 O Thou Silent Night (Previously Unreleased)
12-22 Joe Hill
12-23 Ol’ Man River
12-24 Let The Rail Splitter Awake (Poem) (Previously Unreleased)
Othello The Moor Of Venice - A Tragedy In 5 Acts
Words By – William Shakespeare
13-1 Act I | Scene 1: Venice. A Street “Tush! Never Tell Me”
13-2 Scene 2: Another Street “Though In The Trade Of War I Have Slain Men”
13-3 Scene 3: A Council-chamber “Here Comes Brabantio And The Valiant Moor”
13-4 Act II | Scene 1: A Sea-port In Cyprus. An Open Place Near The Quay “The Moor! I Know His Trumpet”
13-5 Scene 3: A Hall In The Castle "Welcome, Iago, We Must To The Watch”
13-6 Act III | Scene 3: The Garden Of The Castle “Madam, I’ll Take My Leave”
14-1 Scene 4: Before The Castle “Where Should I Lose That Handkerchief, Emilia?”
14-2 Act IV | Scene 1: Cyprus. Before The Castle “Will You Think So?”
14-3 Scene 2: A Room In The Castle “You Have Seen Nothing Then?”
14-4 Scene 3: Another Room In The Castle “How Goes It Now?”
14-5 Act V | Scene 2: A Bedchamber In The Castle; Desdemona In Bed Asleep; Light Burning “It Is The Cause”