The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939

Original Release Date:  August 12, 2008

Track Listing

• 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
• 24. Hail the Crown, spiritual
• 25. An Exhortation, song
• 26. I Stood on de Ribber ob Jordan, spiritual
• 27. Go Down Moses
• 28. High Water, song
• 29. Swanee River
• 30. Old Black Joe, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 31. My Old Kentucky Home, for voice & piano
• 32. Ol' Man River, song (from "Show Boat")
• 33. River, stay 'way from my door
• 34. Rockin' chair
• 35. Medley of Spirituals
• 36. My Heart Is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight, song
• 37. The Folks I Used to Know, song
• 38. Mary Had A Baby
• 39. Lil' Gal, song
• 40. Bear the Burden in the Heat of the Day
• 41. That's Why Darkies Were Born, song (from George White's Scandals of 192
• 42. When it's Sleepy-Time Down South
• 43. I Am Seeking for a City
• 44. Nearer My God to Thee
• 45. There is a green hill far away, for voice & piano or organ
• 46. Mah Lindy Lou
• 47. Ma Curly-headed Baby (Babby) for voice & piano
• 48. The Pilgrim's Song, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 49. Roll the Old Chariot Along, spiritual
• 50. Since You Went Away
• 51. Wid de Moon, Moon, for voice & piano
• 52. Got the South in My Soul
• 53. Hush-a-Bye Lullaby, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 54. Round the Bend of the Road, song
• 55. Take Me Away from the River, song
• 56. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• 57. On Ma Journey
• 58. By an' by
• 59. Were You There when They Crucified My Lord?, spiritual
• 60. Swing Along
• 61. Piccaninny Shoes, song
• 62. In a Narrow Street, song
• 63. Carry me back to green pastures
• 64. Lazy Bones
• 65. Blue Prelude
• 66. Paul Robeson Medley, Part 1: Roll de Ole Chariot; Mary Had a Baby; Swin
• 67. Paul Robeson Medley, Part 2: Carry Me Back; Mighty Lak' a Rose; Round t
• 68. Fat L'il Feller wid his Mammy's Eyes
• 69. Shortnin' Bread, song
• 70. Snowball, song
• 71. Water Boy, folk song
• 72. Don't You Cry, My Honey, song
• 73. Steal Away to Jesus, spiritual
• 74. Scarecrow
• 75. Wagon Wheels
• 76. So Shy, song
• 77. Piccaninny Slumber Song
• 78. St. Louis Blues, song
• 79. Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy, song
• 80. Little Man, You've Had A Busy Day
• 81. I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin', song
• 82. Banjo Song
• 83. Paul Robeson Medley No. 2: Lazy Bones; Scarecrow; Fat Li'l Feller; Wago
• 84. Love Song
• 85. Congo Lullaby
• 86. Canoe Song
• 87. Killing Song
• 88. Shenandoah, folk song
• 89. Jes' Mah Song, for voice & piano
• 90. De Ol' Ark's a-Moverin', spiritual
• 91. Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
• 92. Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
• 93. Honey (Dat's All)
• 94. Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)
• 95. Ol' Man River, song (from "Show Boat")
• 96. I Still Suits Me, song (from 1936 film "Show Boat")
• 97. Sleepy River, for 2 voices & orchestra
• 98. Lonely Road (for film Song of Freedom)
• 99. Song of Freedom, song
• 100. Black Emperor
• 101. Mam'selle Marie
• 102. There's No Hiding Place
• 103. Oh! No, John, folk song
• 104. Passing By
• 105. Hammer Song
• 106. Little David, Play on Your Harp, spiritual
• 107. My Way, song (for the film Jericho)
• 108. Golden River, song (for the film Jericho)
• 109. Ho! Ho! (Wagon Song)
• 110. Climbing Up (The Mountain Song)
• 111. Lazin' (from "Big Fella"), song
• 112. I Don't Know What's Wrong, song
• 113. Roll Up Sailorman, song (from "Big Fella")
• 114. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things, song
• 115. Deep Desert, song (for the film Jericho)
• 116. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
• 117. Minstrel Man (poem)
• 118. O Grieve You Now My Mother
• 119. Dere's A Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names
• 120. Study War No More, spiritual
• 121. Work all de Summer
• 122. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
• 123. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
• 124. Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night), folk song
• 125. Solitude
• 126. Mood Indigo
• 127. Summertime (Lullaby)
• 128. It Take A Long Pull To Get There
• 129. It Ain't Necessarily So
• 130. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
• 131. Just a-Wearyin' for You, for voice & piano
• 132. At Dawning for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 29
• 133. Eh, Ukhnyem (Song of the Volga Boatmen), folk song
• 134. Eriskay Love Lilt
• 135. Encantadora Maria
• 136. Ride Up in the Chariot, spiritual
• 137. Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit, spiritual
• 138. Lay Down Late, song
• 139. After the Battle
• 140. David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Garreg Wen), folk song
• 141. Trees, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 142. Songs my mother taught me (Als die alte Mutter), song for voice & piano
• 143. Loch Lomond
• 144. Drink To Me Only
• 145. Down de Lover's Lane
• 146. Lullaby
• 147. Night
• 148. The Little Black Boy
• 149. Dear Old Southland, for voice & orchestra
• 150. Jerusalem ("And did those feet in ancient time"), for chorus & organ (o
• 151. The Blind Ploughman, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 152. The Cobbler's Song (from the operetta Chu Chin Chow)
• 153. Oh, Could I in Song Tell My Sorrow for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 154. Love at My Heart, song
• 155. Nothin', song
• 156. The Rosary, for voice & piano
• 157. A Perfect Day, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 158. Absent
• 159. Dark eyes ("Ochi chornye," "Black Eyes"), folk song
• 160. Oh Promise Me
• 161. Plaisir d'amour, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 162. Sylvia for voice & piano (or orchestra)
• 163. She Is Far From the Land
• 164. Thora, ballad for voice & piano
• 165. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2
• 166. Sea fever, for voice & piano
• 167. Who is this so weak and helpless (Tune: Ebenezer (Ton Y Botel)) (New En
• 168. Hen wlad fy nhadau (Land of My Fathers, Welsh National Anthem)
• 169. Deep River, spiritual
• 170. Lord God of Abraham; Baal Chorus

Credits

• Arthur Somervell: Arranger
• Charles Villiers Stanford: Arranger
• Paul Robeson: Arranger, Vocals
• Eubie Blake: Composer
• Herb Ellis: Engineer
• Langston Hughes: Composer
• Lawrence Brown: Piano, Arranger, Vocals
• Jack Hylton: Conductor
• Irving Mills: Composer
• Ray Noble: Conductor
• Carroll Gibbons: Conductor
• Elisabeth Welch: Vocals
• Dennis Collins: Liner Note Translation
• William Blake: Text
• Jimmy Kennedy: Composer
• Noble Sissle: Composer
• Jerome Kern: Composer
• Dudley Buck: Arranger
• Harry (Henry) Thacker Burleigh: Arranger
• Herman Finck: Conductor
• Barney Bigard: Composer
• Lew Brown: Composer
• Arthur "Babe"Clarke: Engineer
• Eddie DeLange: Composer
• Peter DeRose: Composer
• Buddy DeSylva: Composer
• Duke Ellington: Composer
• Ray Henderson: Composer
• Ned Washington: Composer
• Walter White: Arranger
• Victor Young: Composer
• Muir Mathieson: Conductor
• Ethelbert Nevin: Composer
• Jack Hylton Orchestra: Orchestra
• Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra: Orchestra
• Clifford Greenwood: Conductor
• Hall Johnson: Arranger
• William J. Dickson II: Engineer
• Angus McBean: Cover Photo
• Walter Legge: Producer
• Walter Goehr: Arranger, Conductor
• Clarence Muse: Composer
• Avery Robinson: Arranger
• Walter Samuels: Composer
• Ronnie Munro: Conductor
• Michael Carr: Composer
• Mabel Wayne: Composer
• Alexander Alexandrov: Arranger
• Unspecified Enemies: Composer
• Rosa Newmarch: Arranger
• Percival Mackey: Conductor
• Eric Ansell: Composer, Conductor
• Lawrence D. Brown: Piano, Arranger, Vocals
• Alexander Hoffmann: Composer
• Peter Quantrill: Editorial
• Spoken Wordz: Composer
• William Dickson: Engineer
• Van Phillips: Conductor
• Georgina Curtis: Design
• Harry Fleming: Engineer
• Edward Gower: Engineer
• Frank T. Dobinson: Photography
• F. Rennie: Engineer
• F.C. Bulkley: Engineer
• Marjory Kennedy-Fraser: Arranger
• Harold Davidson: Engineer
• James Weldon Johnson: Arranger
• Eckhardt van den Hoogen: Liner Note Translation
• Douglas Larter: Engineer
• Shaw Wildman: Photography
• Ruthland Clapham: Piano, Arranger
• Edward Fowler: Engineer
• Maurice Beck: Photography
• Mississippi Chorus: Choir, Chorus
• Dowson Herbert: Organ
• Helen MacGregor: Photography
• J. H. Ellis: Engineer
• A.V. Alexandrov: Arranger
• Andrew Walter: Remastering, Transfer Engineer
• Ernest Irving: Arranger, Conductor
• C.C. Blyton: Engineer
• George Dillnutt: Engineer
• Don McLachlan: Compilation