| Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1959 |
| Label | Monitor |
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Billboard | Positive ("Spotlight" pick) [1] |
Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs is a studio album by Paul Robeson, released on Monitor in 1959. [2]
| Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs | |
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| | |
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1959 |
| Label | Monitor |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Billboard | Positive ("Spotlight" pick) [1] |
Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs is a studio album by Paul Robeson, released on Monitor in 1959. [2]
The album was originally issued in 1959 as a long-playing record, catalog numbers MP 580 (mono) and MPS 580 (stereo). [1] [2]
Robeson is accompanied by Alan Booth on piano (except where indicated).
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Comments | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hammer Song" | with Sonny Terry, harmonica, Brownie McGhee, guitar | ||
| 2. | "Water Me from the Lime Rock" | |||
| 3. | "Scandalize My Name" | arranged by H. T. Burleigh | ||
| 4. | "Jacob's Ladder" | |||
| 5. | "Witness" | arranged by Lawrence Brown | ||
| 6. | "Stand Still, Jordan" | |||
| 7. | "Takin' Names" | |||
| 8. | "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Comments | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hassidic Chant: Kaddish" | arranged by J. Engel | ||
| 2. | "Wanderer" (Finnish folk song) | arranged by Selim Palmgren | ||
| 3. | "Songs My Mother Taught Me" | Antonín Dvořák | ||
| 4. | "Vi azoi lebt der keyser" (Yiddish folk song) | Lawrence Brown, piano Sung in Yiddish | ||
| 5. | "The Minstrel Boy" (English ballad) | words by Thomas Moore | ||
| 6. | "The Orphan" | Modest Mussorgsky | Sung in Russian | |
| 7. | "Zog nit keynmol" (Song of the Warsaw Ghetto) | arranged by Lawrence Brown | Sung in English and Yiddish | |
| 8. | "Joe Hill" | Earl Robinson and Alfred Hayes |
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