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The song was popularized by singer Kate Smith, whose rendition was a hit in 1931, [2] [better source needed] and by singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. [3] [4] It was also featured in a 1931 all-star recording of a medley of songs from George White's Scandals. One verse runs: Someone had to pick the cotton, Someone had to plant the corn,
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 Warfield singing the song with the changes that Robeson incorporated into it. [20]
Paul Robeson Conference April 7–9, 2005 at Lafayette College. Page includes a link to Robeson's 1945 recording of "Ballad for Americans" in WMA format. Accessed 31 January 2006. "Ballad For Americans" lyrics by John La Touche (1939). "Ballad For Americans" lyrics as given on the site of the NYC Labor Chorus. Accessed 31 January 2006.
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" is an African-American spiritual song that originated during the period of slavery but was not published until 1867. The song is well known and many cover versions of it have been recorded by artists such as Marian Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Paul Robeson, and Sam Cooke among others. [1]
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor arranged the song as the first movement of his Trio in E minor of 1893. [5] Multiple recordings of the song were made by Paul Robeson, starting in 1926. [6] Mahalia Jackson recorded the song for her album Bless This House in 1956. [7] Bessie Griffin and The Gospel Pearls recorded the song on their Portraits in Bronze ...
It became one of Burl Ives' signature songs, included on his 1944 album The Wayfaring Stranger. Ives used it as the title of his early 1940s CBS radio show and his 1948 autobiography. [2] Paul Robeson performed this song in his acclaimed 1945 and 1947 New York concerts. The son of a slave, Robeson performed the selection in a style reminiscent ...
The song has been recorded by artists including Paul Robeson, [8] Marion Williams, [9] Johnny Cash, [10] Roy Acuff, [11] Phil Keaggy, [12] Max Roach, [13] Diamanda Galás, [14] Harry Belafonte, [15] The Seldom Scene, [16] Diamond Version (with Neil Tennant), [17] Bayard Rustin, [18] Rajaton, [19] Millennial Choirs and Orchestras, [20] and Chris ...
Paul Robeson recorded the song in 1942 under the title "Song of the Plains", sung both in English and Russian. It was released on his Columbia Recordings album Songs of Free Men (1943). The Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson recorded a version of the song in 1967 under the title "Stepp, min stepp" (steppe, my steppe) on the album Jazz på ryska ...