1943 studio album by Paul Robeson
Songs of Free Men (1943)Review scores Source Rating Billboard Positive
Songs of Free Men Paul Robeson , recorded in early 1942 and released on Columbia Masterworks in 1943.
Track listing
The album was originally issued in 1943 as a set of four 10-inch 78-r.p.m. records, catalog number MM 543.
No. Title Writer(s) Comments Length 1. "From Border to Border" (from Quiet Flows the Don Dzerzhinky Sung in English and Russian 2. "Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don" (from Quiet Flows the Don ) Dzerzhinky Sung in English and Russian 3. "The Purest Kind of a Guy" ("Joe's Birthday Song" from No for an Answer Blitzstein Sung in English 4. "Joe Hill " Sung in English 5. "The Peat-Bog Soldiers " ("Moorsoldaten": song from a German concentration camp) Sung in English and German 6. "The Four Insurgent Generals" (Spanish loyalist song) Arr. Eisler Sung in English and Spanish 7. "Native Land " Dunayevsky Sung in Russian and English 8. "Song of the Plains" Arr. Knipper Sung in English and Russian ("Polyushko-pole ")
Charts
Songs of Free Men (1998)Review scores Source Rating AllMusic
In 1997, the album had a re-release on CD with 17 additional tracks including "Ol' Man River " from Showboat . It charted on Billboard 'Timothy White would list it among the best albums of 1998, at number 10 (tied with another Robeson's album, The Peace Arc Concerts ).
References
Billboard Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2023.Billboard Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2023."Paul Robeson - Songs Of Free Men" . Discogs Archived from the original on 2023-04-07. Retrieved 2023-04-07."Paul Robeson - Songs of Free Men: Recital" . AllMusic Archived from the original on 2023-04-09. Retrieved 2023-04-09."Paul Robeson - Songs Of Free Men" . Archived from the original on 2023-04-07. Retrieved 2023-04-07 – via www.discogs.com.^ "Paul Robeson Chart History (Top Classical Albums)" . Billboard
"Billboard" . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 26, 1998. Archived from the original on April 22, 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2023 – via Google Books.
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