Paul Robeson - Rare TV appearance 1960
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- Paul Robeson performs Water Boy, Going Home and Ol’ Man River on UK TV in 1960.
After years of being denied a passport due to his political activism, Paul Robeson was allowed to leave the USA in 1958. For the next few years he performed around the world while making his base in London. Such was his reputation he headlined the UK TV show ‘Saturday Spectacular’ on October 1st, 1960.
Amazing that such a profound and moving performance was delivered on primetime Saturday night television. It's gratifying to hear the cheers in the end credits.
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A man who loved people, supported the working man AND sang the Welsh National anthem, to Welsh Miners - his respect for all human beings is something special.
It is a tragedy of history that Paul had to sing these songs and make us weep for what should have been. To be of color and get even this much fame is the mark of an extraordinary man. Such was Paul Robeson.
Transcendent
Mr. Paul Robeson - dignity, humanity, sorrow, pain, joy, profound, sublime - words are inadequate.
Absolutely
Paul Robeson one of the greatest singing voices the world has ever known. This recording is a gigantic gift that fills my eyes with tears, as I try hard not to blink.
I so agree with you. I was born in Russia. We loved and admired our Paul
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Paul Robeson visited and performed in CCCP,Russia,and got banned by USA....Because he was considdered a Communist by the USA....Sad and the Movie SHOWBOAT 1936 Is still one of the most beloved Movies.....Old Man River....sung by Paul Robeson 1936.....
By 1960 he had many miles on that voice and was no longer young. What a great human he was. Brilliant athlete, lawyer, singer and actor and a nearly forgotten pioneer of civil and human rights long before MLK . There should be a holiday and streets named after him.
There IS a street named after him - in EAST Berlin!
In Hounslow, West London, there is a Paul Robeson Theatre. I have sung there with a choir.
What a voice. What a voice.
What a man.
Pure royalty from head to toe. I've commented on this man ceaselessly but his talent is everlasting. There will never be another Paul Robeson. The most impossibly gifted man since Adam and Eve.
A true talent and a american hero that no one talks about .
You are so right long live this wonderful man
He seems to have been erased from history. An organized campaign to keep people from knowing about him. Because he stood for worker rights all over the world, included the USSR, he was labeled a communist agitator and blacklisted, his passport taken away effectively kept out of the public consciousness. Even with black people. Rosa Parks is known by every one but her actual accomplishment pales in comparison to a Robeson 25 years earlier. Shameful.
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Thank you so much; Paul remains in my Heart forever.
Uncle Paul 🖤 Honored and grateful to be in this family
This is absolutely fantastic!! Paul Robeson has been my favorite male singer since I was 15, and I've hardly ever seen him perform live, and never with good audio quality. I practically jumped when I saw this. Thank you for posting!
Terrific performance by Mr, Robeson. Wish there were more of his live performances.
As a footnote to this great man's life. the world sadly will never know how great (or otherwise) he would have been on the operatic stage. If the roles we carefully studied beforehand I believe he would have been .brilliant. Mozart, Donizetti, Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, the lot. We can only imagine.
He did Mussorgsky....
I managed to get the apprentice to watch this in work, 18 year old thinks of the spice girls as oldies music started of laughing that I listen to this stuff than about a minute in her jaw was hitting the floor, "omg his speaking voice" , than she was crying during Going Home. "is there anyone else like him?" "No, he's a one off"
Fantastic....the great PAUL ROBESON......
Wonderful to see this new footage of the greatest of men , thank you so much. All the the red baieters and McCarthyites are long forgotten but Paul's legacy lives on to inspire us all.
Well said Peter well said....peace
well said.!!!
the most beautiful powerful voice ever heard enough said thank you for the posting🙂
superb
Beautiful.
One of the great voices. Lacks any sort of proper recognition
His legacy destroyed by fanatical U.S. anti-communism!
Paul Robeson and Harry Belafonte were great human beings. I trust that we may see their like again in these dreadful times - men of courage helping us see the injustices of our system.
Un privilegio poder escucharlo. Gracias.
Happiest Man ever, loving his art
Fantastic
A great man people didn't want to help him thank you for this video
Fantástic! Wonderful! Paul Orbenson! Old Man River the most beautiful song of all times!
SPLENDID
Met Mr Robeson as a Toddler maybe 3 years old during the Black List period , sadly I don’t remember Mr Robeson , performing in the Bay Area in Churches small Auditoriums after Big Paul performance my Dad took him to The Airport in San Francisco I went along for the ride probably sitting in Robeson lap
Beautiful man and voice x
Stunning !!
His voice is impossibly deep, isn't it?
Fantastic!!😊
he was a giant talent.
Brilliant.
Astonishing. that voice got better, more expressive and deeper with age. But its only fair to note that in concerts and recording post 1938, he altered the character and tone behind 'ol man river' when he altered the lyrics of Hammerstein in several lines to suit his admittedly admirable agenda of avoiding what he saw as negative stereotypes of the American black man sitting in the lyrics as written. It was not written as an uplifting number, full of hope as performed here. It was a bit of a downer with Joe feeling trapped in his role dominated and predetermined by his white oppressors. Joe the dock worker also tended to drink spirits after a tough day.
The great bass Baritone
Singing even deeper than I remember & just as memorable. By this time nature had taken its toll because of his age & the suffering he went through for his political positions & beliefs. But he compensates here by his charisma & more comfortable vocal keys due to the likely narrowing of his singing range.
Robeson remains a national treasure & an unjustly vilified one.
Wow ... fantastic.... thank you .
Thank you for THIS HISTORY MOMENT. 👌💞👌💖👏
Thank you very much for uploading and sharing!
This is really a very nice rare TV appearance!
“Show a little grit and you land on jail.”
Fantastic.
this is one kool dude.
Now this folks is what is called talent with a capital T. He was a great man way ahead of his time, or was he just in time?
I always remember him as Mr Old Man River singer....👍👏
And MORECAMBE AND WISE were the hosts!
Variety really meant variety. It's good they didn't try to follow him but ended with this.
In the days of family entertainment.
What a powerful baritone
Mr. Robeson left us too early...it's sad how the US Govt helped to ruin his life.....
'helped' would imply they weren't solely responsible. they were
Not a saint, but a giant and a hero. Amazing how such a voice could be smothered by the forces in power. He was too big a fish not to get caught in whatever the net was in his day-a big fish, a giant talent, larger than life-What chance did he have amongst the small people?
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well known to my family ax
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CRT? How about just 8 minutes of Paul Robeson?
It is a disgrace that our country, his own country, the USA, treated this man like such shit all his life.
"Old Man River", the words were changed quite a bit from the 1936 movie version. What next, a white guy singing the song with whiteys toting the barges and lifting the bails?
What are you trying to say?
@@biggiebopbrain2927 The original 1936 Mr. Paul Robeson version was perfect. They shouldn't mess with the words to try to be politically correct.
@@doughoffman9463 I agree that the original was great. However, I guess Robeson intended to highlight the struggles of him and his people by altering the lyrics to a more rebellious version. To me it seems as if he is trying to show that he is not complacent, but is instead standing up for himself and speaking his mind. Also the new lyrics would have been considered not as politically correct as the original.