Best Version of Old Man River - William Warfield

I've always loved the movie Show Boat. Just watching the emotion he puts into singing this makes me cry.

o'l man river!!!!

this is a hard song for a bass to sing. especially the end, and especially in this key.

Even though this is generally a song sung by males some women have done it. Aretha Franklin once said that Judy Garlands version was the best she had ever heard and i do agree. Judy was a tortured soul and intense talent with the heavy vibrato, these are the ingredients required to nail this song. Check it out

i think the best version of the song personally that puts shivers dowm my spine is frank sinatras one. Its as if when he sings it, its an apology on behalf of the whites from being utterly terrible

lololol. I laughed.

Frank always had to make everything into some swoony song for the ladies. This version seems genuine though.

What's with the Robeson pix, if this is Warfield singing?

he explains that in the description.

Sospello m'a fait connaitre cette interprétation. Superbe

RESPECT!!!

merci à vous