SONGS OF FREE MEN (A PAUL ROBESON RECITAL)

Folk songs, standards and spirituals. Compositions by Lehman Engel, Ivan Dzerzhinsky, Félix Mendelssohn, Marc Blitzstein, Earl Robinson, Isaac Donayevsky, Alexander Gretchaninoff, Mussorgsky, Avery Robinson, George H. Clutsam, Lily Strickland, Peter Derose, Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern, Oley Speaks and George Gershwin. And some anonymous. "[...] Recorded in 1942, just two months after America's entry into World War II against the Axis, these songs of Russian, Spanish, German and American origin reflected a growing American mood supporting the defense of freedom against the fascist onslaught and identifying with the hopes of "the ordinary Joe" for a better future.". Paul Robeson, Jr.