Paul Robeson – Ol’ Man River
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An evening pause: From the 1936 movie adaptation of the Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical Showboat. While some of the visuals are a bit overstated and feel a bit preachy, this is still the best movie version of this song I have seen. Rather than strut about with big visuals, the film focuses on Robeson, who sings the song introspectively, as if it is something he is thinking.
A bit of trivia: The film’s director was James Whale, the man who made the 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Paul Robeson
HUAC testimony June 1956 (excerpt)
https://youtu.be/kmFjjaFNHKo
11:50
[The Charmer, and noted anti Semite nut job…}
Louis Farrakhan
“Is She Is or Is She Ain’t”
1954
https://youtu.be/QB-gTmztgVk
2:40
Wayne, good link re testimony, thanks.
Politics aside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOL2ul5HjQ 3:31
My Sweetheart, a Choral Director and singers voice coach would proclaim,
“… what a marvelous instrument.”
Yep.