The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939 [Box Set]

The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939 [Box Set]

The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939 [Box Set]
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Composer: Jerome Kern
Composer: James Weldon Johnson
Composer: Will Marion Cook
Composer: Spiritual Traditional
Composer: Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh
Composer: Stanford Robinson
Composer: Walter Donaldson
Composer: James / Tunbridge, Joseph A. Waller
Composer: Ray / DeSylva, Buddy / Brown, Lew Henderson
Composer: Nathaniel Shilkret
Composer: A. / Carter, D. Phillips
Composer: Ethelbert Nevin
Composer: Ray Henderson
Composer: J. Kiern Brennan
Composer: Stephen [1] Foster
Composer: Harry Woods
Composer: Hoagy Carmichael
Composer: Carson Robinson
Composer: Max Kester
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Music Label: EMI Classics
Product features:
  • The great bass Paul Robeson in historic early recordings
  • Includes the first published recording from the famed Abbey Roads Studio
  • The complete recordings on CD for the first time
  • Includes 3 versions of Ol' Man River, spirituals and songs from around the world
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Ol' Man River, song (from "Show Boat")
  2. Seem Lak' to Me, song
  3. Down de Lover's Lane
  4. Scandalize My Name
  5. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
  6. Weepin' Mary, spiritual
  7. I Want to Be Ready, spiritual
  8. My Lord, What a Morning
  9. De li'l pickaninny's gone to sleep, song
  10. Git on Board, L'il Chillen, spiritual
  11. There's No Hiding Place
  12. Part 1. So Early in the Morning; Carry Me Back to Old Virginia; Old Fol
  13. Part 2. Away Down South in Dixie; Poor Old Joe; Oh, Susanna; My Old Ken
  14. Oh Rock Me Julie, song
  15. Oh! Didn't It Rain
  16. Mammy (aka "My Mammy")
  17. Roll Away, Clouds (from the musical Virginia)
  18. Sonny Boy, song
  19. Little Pal (from the film Say It With Song)
  20. The Lonesome Road, song
  21. Just Keepin' On
  22. Mighty Lak' a Rose, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  23. Mammy Is Gone, song
Music CD 2
  1. Hail the Crown, spiritual
  2. An Exhortation, song
  3. I Stood on de Ribber ob Jordan, spiritual
  4. Go Down Moses
  5. High Water, song
  6. Swanee River
  7. Old Black Joe, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  8. My Old Kentucky Home, for voice & piano
  9. Ol' Man River, song (from "Show Boat")
  10. River, stay 'way from my door
  11. Rockin' chair
  12. Medley of Spirituals
  13. My Heart Is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight, song
  14. The Folks I Used to Know, song
  15. Mary Had A Baby
  16. Lil' Gal, song
  17. Bear the Burden in the Heat of the Day
  18. That's Why Darkies Were Born, song (from George White's Scandals of 192
  19. When it's Sleepy-Time Down South
  20. I Am Seeking for a City
Music CD 3
  1. Nearer My God to Thee
  2. There is a green hill far away, for voice & piano or organ
  3. Mah Lindy Lou
  4. Ma Curly-headed Baby (Babby) for voice & piano
  5. The Pilgrim's Song, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  6. Roll the Old Chariot Along, spiritual
  7. Since You Went Away
  8. Wid de Moon, Moon, for voice & piano
  9. Got the South in My Soul
  10. Hush-a-Bye Lullaby, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  11. Round the Bend of the Road, song
  12. Take Me Away from the River, song
  13. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  14. On Ma Journey
  15. By an' by
  16. Were You There when They Crucified My Lord?, spiritual
  17. Swing Along
  18. Piccaninny Shoes, song
  19. In a Narrow Street, song
  20. Carry me back to green pastures
  21. Lazy Bones
  22. Blue Prelude
  23. Paul Robeson Medley, Part 1: Roll de Ole Chariot; Mary Had a Baby; Swin
  24. Paul Robeson Medley, Part 2: Carry Me Back; Mighty Lak' a Rose; Round t
Music CD 4
  1. Fat L'il Feller wid his Mammy's Eyes
  2. Shortnin' Bread, song
  3. Snowball, song
  4. Water Boy, folk song
  5. Don't You Cry, My Honey, song
  6. Steal Away to Jesus, spiritual
  7. Scarecrow
  8. Wagon Wheels
  9. So Shy, song
  10. Piccaninny Slumber Song
  11. St. Louis Blues, song
  12. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy, song
  13. Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day
  14. I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin', song
  15. Banjo Song
  16. Paul Robeson Medley No. 2: Lazy Bones; Scarecrow; Fat Li'l Feller; Wago
  17. Love Song
  18. Congo Lullaby
  19. Canoe Song
  20. Killing Song
  21. Shenandoah, folk song
  22. Jes' Mah Song, for voice & piano
  23. De Ol' Ark's a-Moverin', spiritual
  24. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
  25. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Music CD 5
  1. Honey (Dat's All)
  2. Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)
  3. Ol' Man River, song (from "Show Boat")
  4. I Still Suits Me, song (from 1936 film "Show Boat")
  5. Sleepy River, for 2 voices & orchestra
  6. Lonely Road (for film Song of Freedom)
  7. Song of Freedom, song
  8. Black Emperor
  9. Mam'selle Marie
  10. There's No Hiding Place
  11. Oh! No, John, folk song
  12. Passing By
  13. Hammer Song
  14. Little David, Play on Your Harp, spiritual
  15. My Way, song (for the film Jericho)
  16. Golden River, song (for the film Jericho)
  17. Ho! Ho! (Wagon Song)
  18. Climbing Up (The Mountain Song)
  19. Lazin' (from "Big Fella"), song
  20. I Don't Know What's Wrong, song
  21. Roll Up Sailorman, song (from "Big Fella")
  22. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things, song
  23. Deep Desert, song (for the film Jericho)
  24. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
  25. Minstrel Man (poem)
  26. O Grieve You Now My Mother
Music CD 6
  1. Dere's A Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names
  2. Study War No More, spiritual
  3. Work all de Summer
  4. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
  5. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
  6. Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night), folk song
  7. Solitude
  8. Mood Indigo
  9. Summertime (Lullaby)
  10. It Take A Long Pull To Get There
  11. It Ain't Necessarily So
  12. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
  13. Just a-Wearyin' for You, for voice & piano
  14. At Dawning for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 29
  15. Eh, Ukhnyem (Song of the Volga Boatmen), folk song
  16. Eriskay Love Lilt
  17. Encantadora Maria
  18. Ride Up in the Chariot, spiritual
  19. Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit, spiritual
  20. Lay Down Late, song
  21. After the Battle
  22. David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Garreg Wen), folk song
  23. Trees, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  24. Songs my mother taught me (Als die alte Mutter), song for voice & piano
  25. Loch Lomond
  26. Drink To Me Only
Music CD 7
  1. Down de Lover's Lane
  2. Lullaby
  3. Night
  4. The Little Black Boy
  5. Dear Old Southland, for voice & orchestra
  6. Jerusalem ("And did those feet in ancient time"), for chorus & organ (o
  7. The Blind Ploughman, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  8. The Cobbler's Song (from the operetta Chu Chin Chow)
  9. Oh, Could I in Song Tell My Sorrow for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  10. Love at My Heart, song
  11. Nothin', song
  12. The Rosary, for voice & piano
  13. A Perfect Day, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  14. Absent
  15. Dark eyes ("Ochi chornye," "Black Eyes"), folk song
  16. Oh Promise Me
  17. Plaisir d'amour, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  18. Sylvia for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  19. She Is Far From the Land
  20. Thora, ballad for voice & piano
  21. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2
  22. Sea fever, for voice & piano
  23. Who is this so weak and helpless (Tune: Ebenezer (Ton Y Botel)) (New En
  24. Hen wlad fy nhadau (Land of My Fathers, Welsh National Anthem)
  25. Deep River, spiritual
  26. Lord God of Abraham; Baal Chorus

Music reviews of The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939 [Box Set]

Music Review: This is only for dedicated fans, but for us, it is a treasure/pleasure...
Rating: 5 Stars

I could not afford this seven-disc box, but my dear friends Jim and Cindy Clark of Kansas, realizing that I am the only Robeson fan they are ever likely to meet, gifted me with this. I am extremely grateful. I "discovered" Paul in 1959, when I was 14, via a Vanguard folk sampler I checked out of the Trenton, NJ Public Library. The song was "Get on Board, Little Children" and lasted all of 77 seconds, but it changed my life. (On the same set, I "discovered" Cisco Houston, and that track also changed my life. What a great trip to the library that turned out to be.)

I went on to eventually own 11 Robeson LP's, the videotape of James Earl Jones doing a one-man show as Paul, a hardcover full-length biography, and a dozen or more newspaper or magazine articles about him. Most of those items are gone now, and my collection was down to two CD's and a 78 RPM box set of his "Ballad for Americans" on RCA from 1940. Then EMI remastered these 1930's recordings from London, and the Clarks played Santa for me. (Pay attention to the "new or used" line in this listing, because you can find this at a much better price than the one shown.)

Here one gets 170 tracks, about eight hours' worth of Robeson. There are a lot of repetitions here, including three versions of "Old Man River" which became Paul's signature tune for his "classical" fans. One of those versions was for the London cast recording of "Showboat" in 1928, and it leads off the package in great style.

Paul actually began his recording career in the USA in 1927 with a package of spirituals. Those sessions were reissued back in the 1960's on an LP, and most of them were re-recorded in London over the subsequent few years and do appear on this set. The Robesons lived in London for most of the 1930's, because Paul found more concert and film work there than in America. Since these beautifully remastered performances end in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II and Paul's return to the USA, the ten-minute "Ballad for Americans" is NOT included here. Neither is "Joe Hill" which is Robeson's signature song for his "folk-oriented" followers.

If you buy this box, or whine until a friend gives it to you as a present, you will find much that is outdated, even junky by today's standards. Here there are some novelty songs which hold little interest to modern ears, and many plantation/darky songs which are more offensive now, even to black ears. However, the sparkling gems definitely outweigh the drab stones in these 170 slices of Paul's British life 70 years ago.

I'll conclude by listing some of my favorites on each disc:

CD One gives us the 1928-29 sessions (at what is now the famous Abbey Road Studio)and I like: Old Man River, Scandalize My Name, I Want to Be Ready, My Lord What a Morning, Git On Board, Li'l Children, Dere's No Hiding Place, and Oh, Didn't It Rain.

CD Two (1930-31) brings you Go Down Moses, (one of Paul's favorites), Old Folks at Home, Poor Old Joe, My Old Kentucky Home, River, Stay Away From My Door, and Bear The Burden.

On Disc Three, I especially enjoyed Nearer My God to Thee, Roll De Chariot Along, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, On My Journey, Bye and Bye, and the two four-minute song medleys which conclude the CD.

For Disc Four, 1933-36, the winners are Water Boy, Steal Away, the eight-minute medly that is track 16, Shenandoah, Ezekiel Saw The Wheel, and Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho.

The fifth CD in the bos brings us Song of Freedom, Oh, No, John, Li'l David, and Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, along with 22 other rarities and re-recordings. These sessions were held at Abbey Road in 1936-37.

On Disc Six, the 1937-38 bookings at the studio, you will enjoy Dere's A Man Going 'Round Takin' Names, and No More, Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? and the surprisingly lovely Silent Night, Holy Night. (Paul did not record many "Christmas Songs" in his career.) I also loved All Through the Night and Every Time I Feel The Spirit and Loch Lomond.

Finally, CD Seven brings us his studio work during 1939, and the diamonds here are Jerusalem and Deep River. The other tracks include songs from the film "Proud Valley", a handful of plantation numbers, and several songs previously unknown to me, which are interesting to hear but perhaps not compelling enough to hear repeatedly.

If you possess this one box, you might say with a high degree of accuracy that you have everything worthwhile that Robeson recorded in the first half of his long career. Beyond 1939, he has a brief period of adulation in America, due to the "Ballad for Americans" and some other patriotic numbers. However, his love for Russia lasted beyond the period in which we were allies in World War II, and that led, in the early 1950's, to Robeson being labelled un-American, and blacklisted, along with the Weavers, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and many of their leftist fellow artists. Paul had one great comeback in him, however, and after he won back his passport rights in 1958, he not only recorded again in England and traveled to Russia and Germany, but he staged several farewell concerts in New York City which were preserved on vinyl for Columbia, and stand among his best-recorded works. Between 1940 and his retirement in 1963, he recorded in the USA about 80 percent of the contents of this box set. Paul died in 1976, having suffered a form of dementia during his last six or seven years of life. He was not an active presence in the civil rights turmoil of the Sixties, but he worked for civil rights for the four decades prior, and without his grace and courage, that movement might not have succeeded when it did.

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Description of The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939 [Box Set]

170-track digitally remastered 7-CD album set containing all the HMV recordings, as well as the 1928 Columbia recording of 'Ol' Man River' from Show Boat with the Drury Lane chorus and orchestra that was not released until 1976 for contractual reasons. Also included are the two HMV recordings of 'Ol' Man River', the first made in 1930 as a solo with Ray Noble's Orchestra and the second in 1936 with chorus and orchestra conducted by Clifford Greenwood.).

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