Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FW-ASCH-LP-3862 Verve Folkways.9040-20C
- Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
- New York Verve/Folkways 1966
- General
- Program and biographical notes on container. Performer(s): Musical revue interspersing folk and popular songs with recitations of Black poetry ; Roscoe Lee Browne, director ; performed by Leon Bibb, Gloria Foster, Moses Gunn, Ellen Holly, James Earl Jones, Joshephine Prermice and Cicely Tyson ; music performed by Stuart Scharf, guitar ; Bill Lee, bass ; Floyd Williams, percussion ; Seldon Powell, flute. Production notes: Recorded in New York City, Sept. 26, 27, and 29, 1966.
- Collection Creator
- Asch, Moses
- Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
- Folkways Records
- Topic
- Musicals
- Folksong revival
- Poetry
- African Americans
- See more items in
- Moses and Frances Asch Collection
- Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / LP
- Extent
- 1 Phonograph record (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.)
- Date
- 1966
- Archival Repository
- Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
- Identifier
- CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-LP-3862
- Type
- Archival materials
- Phonograph records
- Collection Citation
- Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
- Contents
- From the dark tower ; The negro speaks of rivers ; Frederick Douglass ; We wear the mask --Runagate runagate ; The dark symphonby : Lento grave ; O black and unknown bards ; 'buked and scorned --Ol' Lem ; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem ; Southern mansion ; Mother to son --Sence you went away ; When Malindy sings ; A negro love song ; All hid ; Little boy --An old woman remembers ; Between the world and me ; My angel ; Dink's song --Journey to a parallel ; The end of man is his beauty ; The ballad of Rudolph Reed ; A moment please ; We have been believers ; O' Shenandoah ; Speech : I have heard ... --La vie c'est la vie ; At early morn --The elevator man ; Look at that gal ... ; Glory glory --To a young poet ; Four questions ; Counterpoint -- Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till ; Bound no'th blues ; Ma Rainey ; Get up, blues ; The rebel ; The distant drum. No images : Why try : Ontogeny recapitulates ... ; Robert Whitmore ; Harlem sweeties --A street in Bronzeville : Kitchenette ; After winter ; When in Rome ; American gothic : To Satch --Jane Jane ; Epigram ; Conception ; Alien -- My Lord, what a morning ; The preacher ruminates ... ; Personal ; Preface to a 20 volume suicide note ; Careless love --This ain't no mass thing ; Rocks and gravel ; Song ; If the birds.
- Restrictions
- Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
- Record ID
- ebl-1649170801566-1649171785908-2
