Ol Man River

[8AHdl]

good performance....great voice!!!...magnificent bass!!!

[MrMarcusirish]

Ironic as Robeson was a keen pacifist all of his life and these clowns at a naval base, whose business is war, are singing a great, dignified song such as this from a truly great American, who probably know very liitle about him, he suffered years of racism from the U.S state so he left to live in Wales, there's your hereos for you, hang your head in shame ass wipes.

[madamerotten]

@MrMarcusirish You assume too much.

[TommasoCorvaja]

He's great!!! Real good voice!!! Nice atmosphere! Cool the organ ground as base!! Real great job! :-) Thanks!

[amdunning]

lipsynching!

[betsy1947]

Is this really his voice? He's a skinny white guy - just doesn't fit the voice.

[Matthew1616nkjv]

@betsy1947 When my school did this a skinny white guy sang this. And he sings like this.

[jwsorrell]

This venue is the chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis MD. It's their annual Halloween concert. The singing is real, not lipsynching. I saw the concert in 2005 in person. These midshipmen volunteer their time to put on the performances. The singer is a student at USNA.

[vhun05]

yay andy!! OE's finest!

[smoothbv]

He not lipsynching for sure, but some of the change they are kind dump, I like the original words just the way it is, and if you want to hear a good version other than Paul, there's a guy named William Warfield, he sang this in the 1951 version Showboat, you can just die crying on what he does.

[invernessfalls]

PS the clue is in the words. Every Robeson version I've heard maintains the words "gets a little drunk and you lands in jail," which gets changed here to "get in trouble and you land in jail." It's also much slower than most versions, which also seems to counter the already ridiculous idea that anybody would bother lip-synching this song in public and then posting it.

[Urineculture]

This lip synching thing is an urban legend. Listen to Robeson's versions - those from his early years and his mature years. This is not his voice. See Met bass Sam Ramey perform the same piece. His voice is deep, resonate, and he drops is voice down to his ankles towards the end of he piece (like Robeson would do in concert). But you could never confuse them. I am not classically trained like bassodivo, but can tell the difference in a moment. Whatever happened to this guy ???

[bassodivo]

no, this guy is not lipsynching. this is his own voice, or at least its not paul robeson for sure. I am a black classically trained bass and can assure you that paul robeson's voice,pronunciation, were far diffrent from this

[thecyborg]

It's the Paul Robeson version, they have a different guy lip synch to it every year, or at least they have the last three years. Go this weekend and you'll see someone else do it I'm sure.

[v1e2ridisQ3u4o]

very good, a little out of tune at the end

[chewbayama6]

Yeah that soundes alot like Paul Robeson but the guy is white.

He lipsynching?

[jerely04]

he's white. isn't...? i'm confused.

[DanLSE]

Magnificient

[prgruber]

Outstanding

[Arcangelo]

Agreed. Manificent bass - and you just do not run into a lot of those.

[mandragorra]

a little drawn out, but what a magnificent bass