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It originated in George White's Scandals of 1931, where white baritone Everett Marshall performed the song in blackface. [1] The song was most famously recorded by popular singer Kate Smith, whose rendition was a hit in 1931, [2] [better source needed] and by award-winning singer, film star, scholar, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.
Paul Robeson Conference April 7–9, 2005 at Lafayette College. Page includes a link to Robeson's 1945 recording of "Ballad for Americans" in WMA format. Accessed 31 January 2006. "Ballad For Americans" lyrics by John La Touche (1939). "Ballad For Americans" lyrics as given on the site of the NYC Labor Chorus. Accessed 31 January 2006.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arranged the song as the first movement of his Trio in E minor of 1893. [5] Multiple recordings of the song were made by Paul Robeson, starting in 1926. [6] Mahalia Jackson recorded the song for her album Bless This House in 1956. [7] Bessie Griffin and The Gospel Pearls recorded the song on their Portraits in Bronze ...
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" is an African-American spiritual song that originated during the period of slavery but was not published until 1867. The song is well known and many cover versions of it have been recorded by artists such as Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Paul Robeson, and Sam Cooke among others. [1]
It became one of Burl Ives' signature songs, included on his 1944 album The Wayfaring Stranger. Ives used it as the title of his early 1940s CBS radio show and his 1948 autobiography. [2] Paul Robeson performed this song in his acclaimed 1945 and 1947 New York concerts. The son of a slave, Robeson performed the selection in a style reminiscent ...
The opening call to the "water boy" has been said to bear a resemblance to melodies found in classical works by Cui, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt, as well as a Jewish marriage song and a Native American tune. [4] The first melody of the subsequent refrain is similar to the old German tune "Mendebras," used for the hymn "Oh Day of Rest and Gladness."
Czech composer Vítězslav Novák utilizes the main motif from Song of the Volga Boatmen in his Májová symfonie (May Symphony, Op. 73, 1943), for soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra. A translated vocal version was sung by Paul Robeson. The first two lines of the song, in English, were used in George Formby's 1934 song, "Madame Moscovitch".
The song was part of the symphony with chorus (lyrics by Gusev) "A Poem about a Komsomol Soldier" (Поэма о бойце-комсомольце) composed in 1934. The original lyrics are sung from the perspective of a Red Army recruit, who proudly leaves his home to keep watch against his homeland's enemies.