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On this album, the original 1927 lyrics of Ol' Man River were heard for the first time on a high fidelity stereo recording. While Robeson's changes to the lyrics were mostly sung by himself, Leon and Eric Bibb together sang a changed version in their 2006 tribute album Praising Peace: A Tribute to Paul Robeson , and a clip exists of William ...
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.
In those years, when he sang "Ol' Man River", he would not perform it with the original lyrics, but with the altered ones that Paul Robeson used in his recitals beginning in 1938. [ 8 ] He died in Chicago in August 2002, following treatment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, succumbing to injuries he sustained in his neck from a fall a month prior.
The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domain Public domain false false The author died in 1960, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or fewer .
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"(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River" is a song by Australian alternative rock band TISM, released in June 1995 as the second single from their third studio album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons. The song peaked at number 23 on the ARIA Charts, becoming the band's highest charting single and polled at number 9 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 1995
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I'm not sure when Robeson "sang" his version of the lyrics as described in the article, but it was not on the recording of him singing "Ol' Man River" that I have.71.224.204.167 03:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)