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Author: wasabimilkshake
Keywords: paul robeson all through the night
Added: September 3, 2008
"One of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century." Athlete, singer, controversial political figure. A video blog by Jerry Shea, UNM professor emeritus of English.
Author: unmlive
Keywords: paul robeson weekend wonk jerry shea unm university of new mexico video blog
Added: September 2, 2008
Russ Columbo (né Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo), interpreting the outstanding vocal in this fantastic record, was born in 1908. Despite his early death, he became a famous American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love," and the legend surrounding his premature death. He started playing the violin while still very young, and debuted professionally at the age of 13. He left high school at 17 to travel with various bands around the country. He sang and played violin in numerous nightclubs. By 1928, at the age of 20, Columbo began to participate in motion pictures, including a Vitaphone short in which Columbo appeared with Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra. Eventually, he did obtain some feature work in front of the camera, but he slowed down his activities in cinema to pursue other interests. Columbo tried to run a nightclub for a while, but the venture was unsuccessful. In 1931, he traveled to New York with his manager, songwriter Con Conrad. Conrad secured a late-night radio slot with NBC. This led to numerous engagements, a recording contract with RCA Victor records, and tremendous popularity with legions of mostly female fans. The type of singing that was popularized by the likes of Columbo, Rudy Vallée, and Bing Crosby is called crooning. Columbo disliked the label, but it caught on with the general public. It gained popular credence, despite its initial use as a term of derision for the singers employing their low, soothing voices in romantic songs. On September 2, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown. Columbo was visiting him at the studio one day. In lighting a cigarette, Brown lit the match by striking it against the wooden stock of an antique French dueling pistol. The flame set off a long-forgotten charge in the gun, and a lead pistol ball was fired. The pistol ball ricocheted off a nearby table and hit Columbo in the left eye, killing him almost instantly. Columbo's death was ruled an accident, and Brown exonerated from blame. Nathaniel (on popular/jazz records credited Nat) Shilkret (1895-1982) was an American composer and conductor. For many years he was "director of light music" for Victor. He conducted the orchestra for the very first recording of George Gershwin's symphonic poem An American in Paris, in 1928. His best-known popular composition was The Lonesome Road, sung by Jules Bledsoe (dubbing Stepin Fetchit) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat and recorded by more than 100 artists, including Armstrong, Crosby, Sinatra and Robeson. Besides all this, he also was a classical composer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1935 and there contributed music scores to a string of Hollywood films for MGM and RKO, particularly Mary of Scotland (1936), Swing Time (1936), The Plough and the Stars, and Shall We Dance? (1937) and several films of Laurel and Hardy. Shilkret also received an Oscar nomination for his work scoring the film version of Maxwell Anderson's stage drama Winterset (1936). In 1939, he conducted a group of soloists (including tenor Jan Peerce) and the Victor Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor's multi-disc tribute to Victor Herbert, which were recorded following a special NBC radio broadcast. He left the movie business after 1946 to join the CBS radio network as its music director. As for this delicate rendition, so typical for Columbo's refined style, was recorded for Victor on September 3rd, 1931. Piano solo by Nat Shilkret, also conducting the Nat Shilkret Orchestra.
Author: kspm01
Keywords: Guilty Russ Columbo 78RPM
Added: August 31, 2008
8-8-08 Robeson County Courthouse
Author: jgbell47
Keywords: Lumberton NC wedding
Added: August 29, 2008
8-8-08 Robeson County Courthouse
Author: jgbell47
Keywords: Lumberton NC wedding
Added: August 29, 2008
8-8-08 Robeson County Courthouse
Author: jgbell47
Keywords: Lumberton NC wedding
Added: August 29, 2008
8-8-08 Robeson County Courthouse
Author: jgbell47
Keywords: Lumberton NC wedding
Added: August 29, 2008
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These photos of what appear to be a funnel cloud were taken by Lesley Robeson Wednesday from her house on North Kimball shortly before the cloud was sighted at the mall.
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The transcripts of the House Unamerican Activities Committee questioning on actor Paul Robeson about one of his friends is followed by video of Fox News questioning Obama about Rev. Wright. The methods of the far right have changed so little: critics of status quo are dangerous and must be betrayed and shunned by any in public life.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Fox_grilling_Obama_like_Unamerican_Activites_questions
If this is true it shows the lengths the US government will go to to preserve their power and that they are willing to Kill their own citizens to do so.IS this a Government people should accept?
http://digg.com/celebrity/US_Poisoned_Paul_Robeson_with_Mind_Bending_Drug
Tay Zonday’s unique voice is frequently compared to James Earl Jones, Barry White, Paul Robeson, and Brad Roberts. Hailing from Minneapolis, the twenty-five-year-old continues to experiment with diverse musical-works and voice-works that he primarily shares on the internet.
http://digg.com/music/Artist_Tay_Zonday_the_one_of_talented_man
In the 1930s, Paul Robeson raised nationalist theory to new heights. With his command of African languages, folklore, and anthropology, Robeson propounded a conception of culture that recognized the self-generative activity, largely African in origin, that had produced the spirituals and prepared the way for blues and jazz.
http://digg.com/music/Blues_in_Chicago
Another sign I’m getting old/losing touch/out to lunch: I’m just finding out about Internet phenomenon Tay Zonday and his frightening, hypnotic “Chocolate Rain” video. It’s been up on YouTube for a year now, mesmerizing the human race with its spidery keyboard riff and Tay’s impossibly deep Robeson-esque vocals. ..
http://digg.com/music/All_Hail_Tay_Zonday
Last August, New York¹s incoming governor, David Paterson, spoke atRiverside Church in Manhattan during the funeral of the jazz legend MaxRoach. In his address, Paterson invoked the memory of blacklisted actor and singer Paul Robeson, abolitionist Harriet Tubman and black nationalistleader Malcolm X.
http://digg.com/politics/Paterson_Invokes_Robeson_Tubman_Malcolm_X_in_Remembrance
Paul Robison was an athlete, lawyer, actor, singer, civil right activist and political exile. Born in Princeton New Jersey in 1898, Robeson was he third black student ever to be admitted to Rutgers University. e won fifteen varsity letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track and field, was inducted into phi beta kappa and was valedictorian
http://digg.com/arts_culture/Paul_Robeson_Ol_Man_River
The ceremony will be held March 29 at the HUB-Robeson Center. State College Mayor Bill Welch, who said he supports the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community and its allies (LGBTA), will preside over the event. It is the first event of LGBTA's Pride Week. http://www.biloves.com
http://digg.com/world_news/Ceremony_to_mark_gay_commitments
Penn State may be the epitome of a middle-class, suburban public university, but artists LeRoy Johnson and Theodore A. Harris are attempting to change that defining characteristic -- in the HUB-Robeson Center, at least. "The truth is not prettied up; there are some hard truths evident in my work. It's a global issue." T.A. Harris
http://digg.com/arts_culture/Confrontational_collagist_uses_collages_to_break_tradition