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"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River .
Kern was born in New York City, on Sutton Place, in what was then the city's brewery district. [1] His parents were Henry Kern (1842–1908), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles (1852–1907), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage. [2]
Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name.The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.
Noted Indian singer-songwriter, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika met Robeson in 1949, befriended him and participated in civil rights activities. [381] Hazarika based his iconic Assamese song "Bistirno Parore" ("Of the wide shores") on Robeson's "Ol' Man River", [382] [383] [384] later translated into Bengali, Hindi, Nepali and Sanskrit.
"Ol' Man River" – Paul Robeson and men's chorus of dock workers "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" – Helen Morgan, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson and levee workers, danced by Dunne and levee workers "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" (instrumental version) – show boat brass band (used as exit music from the Cotton Palace performances)
The rhythm and blues singer LaVern Baker released a version of the song in 1955 as the "A" side of a release on Atlantic Records. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded an unreleased solo version at Sun Studios in 1956 or 1957 and again in 1989 on the Great Balls of Fire soundtrack album. A version by Sam Cooke appeared on his debut LP Sam Cooke (1958) [8]
One of the bonus tracks, “You Don’t Make Me Cry,” features a 5-year-old River singing alongside her mother. When asked if Clarkson would push River to follow her musical ambitions, the America
Old Man River may refer to: A personification of the Mississippi River in the United States; Old Man River (musician) (born 1979), Israeli singer-songwriter "Ol' Man River", a 1927 song from the musical Show Boat "Old Man River (I've Come to Talk Again)", a song by Reba McEntire on the 1982 album Unlimited; See also. Oldman River