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Title: Sadly
Review: There is a great deal of romanticism about Paul Robeson, mostly, I would guess, on account of his political activism. Certainly his singing doesn't merit it. It would be too easy to blame the faults on the relatively primitive recording techniques of his time, but that excuse fails, too. Other artists who recorded at the same time on the same media don't sound this bad. The truth is that Robeson did not have a very good voice, and what he had, he used poorly. One is impelled to compare his work with that of Marian Anderson, who was about one year older, lived through the same political and social problems, was subject to the same primitive recording techinques, and actually made music. Compared to Anderson, Robeson's work is embarrassing. This album does not contain the worst of Robeson's work, but one doesn't need to go further than this to recognize just how bad his singing really was.
