― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
(that's totally a paraphrase, and possibly i got it wrong: but anyway it always stuck in my mind)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
Some sample cantor song titles:
I've Got the "Yes! We Have No Banana" BluesI Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself)I'll Have VanillaThose Panama MammasLittle Curly Hair in a High ChairIf I Give Up The Saxophone, Will You Come Back To Me?
one cantor tune i like a lot is "They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me" which always seemed to me to anticipate Yellowman's "Mad over Me".
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link
ts: "show boat" vs. "porgy & bess" ???
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
i have a record of paul robeson singing "the internationale" and some russian folk songs.
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
but he pulled out and did weird al's "living with a hernia" with another friend instead & i did johnny b. goode on my own.
later in high school jm and i talked about but never actually did an ultra-angsty rendition of NIN's "hurt" for that lipsync contest.
i also sorta wanted to do bad bad leroy brown back in 4th grade but never did that, tho me & some friends did "love potion #9" for "50s day" (!) in 7th. (was that you jm? i don't remember. i remember sean tho).
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 7 February 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link
on a robeson kick tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSjO9rIwn5M
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 17 September 2011 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
Classic, or the most talented person of the 20th century?
http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/long-overdue-paul-robeson-revival-talented-person-20th-century
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 May 2014 09:20 (nine years ago) link
Probably so, yeah.
― emil.y, Saturday, 10 May 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
“His life and legacy was the film I wanted to make the second after Hunger,” McQueen said, referring to his debut movie, about the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. “But I didn’t have the power, I didn’t have the juice.”
McQueen was speaking on stage in New York at the Hidden Heroes awards, organised by the Andrew Goodman Foundation, named in honour of one of three young civil rights activists murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.
The director told the audience that he first discovered Robeson at the age of 14. A neighbour called Mr Milton used to give McQueen books and articles he thought might be of interest, and one day put a cutting about Robeson through his parents’ letterbox.
“It was about this black guy who was in Wales and was singing with these miners,” remembered McQueen. “I was about 14 years old, and not knowing who Paul Robeson was, this black American in Wales, it seemed strange. So then, of course, I just found out that this man was an incredible human being.”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/18/steve-mcqueen-to-make-film-about-paul-robeson
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
cool
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
i tried reading that "la review of books" article but the font was so horrendous (particularly on the letter b) that i had to give up! i wish i wasn't such an oversensitive crank. :(
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
no sign of the feature film yet, but hoping to see this McQueen-Robeson thing tonight
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/OpenPlanSteveMcQueen
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
wish a director i liked more was doing a robeson biopic but oh well
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 6 May 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
actually there's no reason to have a biopic at all, but you can extend that to most every subject
Simon Callow reviews a pair of new Robeson books.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/02/08/emperor-paul-robeson/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
Paul Robeson pic.twitter.com/gxFue7jJdf— Noname (@noname) January 14, 2020
"you did it another way here in Australia, you had to build your accumulated wealth too ... you just came and took it!"
― calzino, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link