PAUL ROBESON SINGS - MY CURLY HEADED BABY - CLIP

ROBESON WILL ALWAYS BE ASSOCIATED WITH G.H. CLUTSAM'S SONG..."MY CURLY HEADED BABY" WHICH HE RECORDED FOR HMV, HERE IS THE FILM VERSION...
ENJOY!!!

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Music

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• PAUL
• ROBESON
• SINGS-
• G.H.
• CLUTSAM
• SONG

[TheXBlazex]

How cruel humans can be. This was an amazing man with a voice unparalled in history, it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end. To think of the "Land of the Free" treating a man this way is a disgrace to Mankind (an ironic term in the circumstances). More people should hear this to know what passion means.

Thanks,

Wizard

[TAUBERFANLEHAR2]

@TheXBlazex HIS SINGING OF THE SONG "DEEP RIVER FROM THE BRITISH FILM "PROUD VALLEY", IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HIS ART. ROBESON LIKE CHAPLIN HAD HIS PASSPORT CONFISCATED, CHAPLIN ENDED UP IN SWITZERLAND WITH HIS WIFE OONA, ROBESON STAYED. TIMES CHANGE, BUT I FEAR THAT WE HUMANS HAVE NOT REALLY PROGRESSED THAT FAR. A GREAT ARTIST OF THE PEOPLE ROBESON BECAME. ANOTHER VOICE THAT COMES TO MIND IS MARION ANDERSON, WHO SANG AT SEGREGATED CONCERTS.

DAN

[MrClydekewl]

@TAUBERFANLEHAR2 LOL ALL I HAVE IS CAPS LOCK I CANT TALK IN LOWER CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[babamaman49]

@Scorrpy My daddy also sang this to me, I sang it to my children and now to my grandchildren......it is unique...I love this too.............He also sang offenprippinchick...have yet to find it

[Scorrpy]

When I was 4 my dad sang me to sleep with this song ...that was in 1955... I sang my kids to sleep with the same song.. from 1979 - through 1995.. I had 4 kids... I'm now 62...still love to hear this song....

[spangleJ]

Robeson was mixed himself eight ways from Sunday. Get over it and enjoy the song.

[lumpfish54]

What a film gem! From what movie comes this clip?

And....yes, many white people entrusted their children to black caretakers, as they have done for many generations, and still do.

The kid's accent suggests a white kid, although I agree with THEMAN.. the child really looks like a mixed race kid with straightened hair.

It is wonderful to hear Paul Robeson doing anything in addition to Old Man River! Let's hear more of his artistic output!

[speechrighter]

@THEMAN200711 I don't know anything about this movie, but the clip alone suggests that the boy was a fair-skinned African American with straight hair. Black people with his physical characteristics were most popular at this time in the movies -- unless they were playing a stereotypical character in blackface. Few, if any, Hollywood storylines would have had black adults acting as authority figures over a white child. Just recall how black adult actors had to interact with Shirley Temple!

[EbenezerIan123]

I'm white, English, but I was my Mummy's curly headed baby AND her fate li'l fella with his Mammy's eyes.

I love Paul's voice - I heard him on 78s when I was a baby, & my Mummy sang his songs.

Sadly she believed the lies about him in the 50s, & went off him.

I champion him locally - we have a Paul Robeson Theatre - & I'd hate him to be forgotten in the area where he lived in England & made some of his films.

[billy2rivers1]

I was the whitest kid ever but my old dad used to sing this to me ha i did have curly hair though . Its not a bloody race thing its that people love pauls voice .