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SHOW BOAT Music by Jerome Kern | Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Based on the novel SHOW BOAT by Edna FerberEpisode Segments:1:58 - Speed Test4:24 - Why God Why8:27 - Back to Before28:08 - What's Inside54:27 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?1:13:33 - Our Favorite Things1:19:05 - Corner of the Sky1:20:27 – What Comes Next?Works Consulted & Reference :Show Boat (Original Libretto) by Oscar Hammerstein IIShow Boat (Harold Prince Version) by Oscar Hammerstein IIShow Boat (Goodspeed Version) by Oscar Hammerstein II | Adapted by Rob RuggieroShow Boat: The Story of a Classic American Musical by Miles Krueger Broadway: The American Musical by Michael Kantor & Laurence MaslonMusical! A Grand Tour by Denny Martin FlinnB'WAY: The American Musical (2004 PBS Documentary)Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel by M. Nourbese PhilipShow Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd DeckerThe Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical by Warren HoffmanMusic Credits:"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble"Bill” from Oh, Lady, Lady | Music by Jerome Kern & Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse | Performed by Kate Baldwin"Bill" from Show Boat (1993 Toronto Revival Cast) | Music by Jerome Kern | Words by P.G. Wodehouse & Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Lonnette McKee"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

Episode 148, “Tony Bennett,” features the legendary singer’s hit singles and tracks from his first few studio albums, all released in the 1950s. Songs include “Just in Time,” “Ol’ Man River,” “Stranger in Paradise,” “Cold,... Read More The post Episode 148, “Tony Bennett,” appeared first on Sam Waldron.

Den amerikanske komponist Jerome David Kern (1885-1945) var en af de mest produktive leverandører af sange til Broadway-shows og Hollywood film. Hans melodier har siden 1930ne hørt til jazzmusikeres yndlingsrepertoire og omfatter for eksempel All The Things You Are, Ol' Man River, The Way You Look Tonight og Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. De præsenteres i denne udsendelse i udgaver med blandt andre Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Coleman Hawkins og Stan Getz. Programmet er sammensat af Radio Jazz studievært Tom Buhmann. Sendt i Radio Jazz i 2020 Der er mere jazz på www.radioajazz.dk

We cover how negative oil prices can even exist, consider whether to go back to work as high priced COBOL consultants, and speculate about what’s happening with all the traffic. I mean that's our regular fare, right? Then, in a burst of inspiration, RJ asks KJ about his experiences as a young Catholic in a small town. We learn a lot, have some fun, and understand more about where we’re from. I mean where else will you hear about throwing devil's horns during a funeral service?Links: Shed Dogs; this episode on YouTube; the Planet Money episode on negative oil prices; Cushing, OK (the Pipeline Crossroads of the World); the Catholic Church; the Vatican II (a.k.a. the Second Vatican Council); Ol’ Man River from Show Boat; The Liar Tweets Tonight (video).

The life of Paul Robeson in songs. Granddaughter Susan Robeson on Ol' Man River.

Eleanor Catton, who in 2013 became the youngest writer to win the Booker Prize for her monumental novel The Luminaries, talks about her screenplay for the new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, She tells Nikki Bedi why she thinks Emma is such a fascinatingly flawed heroine. After falling from favour in the last decade, the Rom-Com is on the rebound. It's Valentine's Day and Rachael Siggie looks at how the updated genre has a new generation of film – and streaming – audiences falling for its charms. In 1978 Roman Polanski fled the US for France before being sentenced for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. His latest film, An Officer and a Spy, about the Dreyfus Affair - a notorious anti-semitic injustice - has received 12 nominations in the Césars. In response the entire board of the César Academy, which distributes France's equivalent of the Oscars, has resigned. Olivia Salazar- Winspear of news channel France 24 explains what is going on. The great singer songwriter James Taylor, whose work includes You've Got a Friend, Fire and Rain and Carolina in my Mind, has recorded American Standard, an album of songs from shows and films including Moon River, Ol' Man River, Pennies From Heaven and even The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. He tell Nikki Bedi about the influence they have on him and how he has reinterpreted these wonderful songs. Presenter: Nikki Bedi Producer: Julian May Main image: Anya Taylor-Joy Photo credit: NBC Universal

“‘Ol Man River—it's an interesting phenomenon—to me, the best song ever written for a bass baritone. I don't think there's anything that can touch it. But a lot of people when they see someone that's not black sing it—they freak out. And I'm not talking about black people, either.” Dan Tullis Jr.

Candace Bushnell whose 1996 book Sex and the City was a runaway best seller and adapted into a successful HBO television series and two films, talks to John Wilson about her new memoir Is There Still Sex in The City? - a wry look at sex, dating and friendship in New York City after fifty. We talk to choreographer and Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales, Fearghus Ó Conchúir, about Rygbi: Annwyl i Mi / Dear to Me, a dance production celebrating rugby in Wales, which he developed alongside professional rugby players. The work premieres at the Welsh National Eisteddfod this week and will travel to the Rugby World Cup in Japan later in the year. Audible has announced a new “captioning” facility, which will allow audiobook listeners to see the words of a text as they are spoken by the narrator. It’s set to start in America in September, but publishers there have reacted furiously, saying the rights to produce an audiobook are entirely separate to the rights to reproduce a text. Nicola Solomon, chief executive of the Society of Authors takes us through a tech development which has startled US publishers. The black actor and singer Paul Robeson – forever associated with Ol’ Man River – is the subject of a new play 8 Hotels at Chichester Festival Theatre. The play’s writer, Nicholas Wright, and its director, Richard Eyre, consider the political controversy surrounding the singer as he toured the US in Othello in the 1940s. Vincent Dowd reports. Presented by John Wilson Produced by Simon Richardson

Quizmaster Lee and Marc are joined by Jamie in this episode of the Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast. Looking back on Jamie's longtime obsession with funny, edgy and creative team names, the three have a discussion on how to come up with a good team name for trivia night (and some cliches to avoid). Questions Round One * In what year did Britney Spears shave her head? * What cartoonist once received an unsolicited piece of fan mail from Stephen King, which is rumored to have never been opened? * What 1950's actress was the first to appear on a U.S. Postage stamp? * What 1999 film was movie critic Gene Siskell's last movie review for the Chicago Tribune, which was later confirmed to be ghost written by M. Night Shamalan? * In what country did the French horn originate? * Promoting his first film appearance, Donald Duck first appeared in an advertisement in what magazine, now highly sought after by collectors? Round Two * "Everybody's beautiful in their own special way" is a line sung by who in the 1970 #1 hit song "Everything is Beautiful"? * What is the largest country in Africa? * Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, Zilch and Zonk are all names for what dice game? * What is the name of a series of poems written in the 1930s by T.S. Eliot that inspired a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber? * Behind the Simpsons, what is the longest running animated series in the United States? Final Questions * What is Chuck Norris's real first name? * What American baritone singer, civil rights activist and actor known for his broadway role of Othello, made 267 song and poetry recordings over his career, was blacklisted during McCarthyism, performed his hit song "Ol' Man River" for laborers during the construction of the Sydney Opera House and later became a political dissident who suspected himself to be a victim of the CIA mind-control program known as MKULTRA? * What singer who was popular in the 1970's wrote the Band-Aid and State Farm jingles? Missed Corrections Ted Bundy did not attend Florida State University, as Lee clumsily stated in Episode 31. - Seth and Rob The movie about the Walmart birth is Where the Heart Is. - Fletcher Rate My Question What is the unofficial title of the rider who comes in last place in the Tour de France? - Gabriel Special Guest: Jamie.

In 1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein created Ol’ Man River to bind their breakthrough Broadway musical Show Boat. Giving it an almighty showstopper. Audiences were carried away as ‘Joe’, the ordinary black labourer, took centre stage to sing of toil and suffering in the land of cotton along the banks of the Mississippi. From the beginning it thrilled with powerful contradictions. A song of black suffering by white artists in Jim Crow America where its mixed cast couldn’t even dine together. Its lyrics were racially charged and contested from the get go and before becoming a song of revolution and protest across three continents. Kern and Hammerstein wrote it specifically with rising superstar Paul Robeson in mind. The son of a slave, the singer of new Negro spirituals and, later, the voice of working class solidarity. But Robeson would not be the first to perform it. That would come a year later in London, beginning a complex personal relationship with the song including his own changes to the lyrics and performances on the front lines of Civil War Spain and Cold War America. Beyond Robeson, the song immediately became a jazz standard. Artists as diverse as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Judy Garland, Rod Stewart, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Dave Brubeck have performed it. Mark Burman navigates the many currents of history flowing through Ol’ Man River from Broadway to the Black Panthers to its last unlikely journey along the banks of the Brahmaputra and a new mass Indian audience that knew little of its original source.

We're in a weird time right now...The buying and avarice of last minute Christmas shopping is not quite here, yet the Mueller indictments and Trump denials keep flowing like Ol' Man River...All the while, new phrases to deal with lifelong problems have surfaced, such as intersectionalism. What the hell is that? Oh my God...the LGBT community needs a term, white men need a term, evidently evreyone and their mother needs a term for their cause, and all we want to do is finish shopping for Christmas and get through the holidays without our drunk IWS truck driver Paco, I mean Steve, getting thrown in jail again on Christmas Eve!! Holy Cow!! His bail is up to $1,250 now!! So, let's just sit back relax, and enjoy some witty banter, good/bad music, and some booze testing. And, let's pray that Jay hasn't succumbed to the Great Snowmageddon of Aught 18, and that Matt isn't too drunk from celebrating the 4 Year Anniversary of his Divorce. All of that, plus the uber-sexy Jamie Mapleleaf and your phone calls as IWS Radio presents: The Two Hour Intersectional Comedy Hour 

11 November 2018 Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 12:38-44 + Homily 17 Minutes 7 Seconds Link to the Readings - USA Version http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/111118.cfm (from the parish bulletin)    Pier 54 on the Hudson River is a short walk from our church. On display are pictures of the Titanic and the Lusitania, which is not encouraging for public relations. The Titanic was supposed to berth there, but instead the Carpathia arrived with surviving passengers. Seven years before, my grandmother had sailed on the Carpathia.     The sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat brought the United States into the Great War. Film footage shows passengers arriving at Pier 54 to embark on May 1, 1915. Of the 1,962 passengers and crew on the Lusitania’s manifest, 1,198 died. Toscanini had planned to be on board, but took an earlier ship after bad reviews of his performance of Carmen. Jerome Kern missed the ship when his alarm clock failed—otherwise, we’d not have “Ol’ Man River” and “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” The dancer Isadora Duncan cancelled her ticket to save money, and the actress Ellen Terry backed off because of war jitters.     One casualty of the Lusitania sinking was Father Basil Maturin, Catholic chaplain at Oxford University, returning from a lecture tour. He spurned a lifeboat and gave away his life jacket. That was reminiscent of Monsignor John Chadwick, later pastor of the Church of Saint Agnes here in Manhattan, who barely survived the sinking of the Maine which incited the Spanish-American War. The monsignor was hailed as a hero by the sailors he saved.    If his chauffeur had not taken a wrong turn on the streets of Sarajevo in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand might not have been assassinated, and the domino effect of national alliances would have not brought on the collapse of empires. At the Somme, more than one million troops were killed or wounded, and the war’s total casualties were 37.5 million dead or wounded. One year after the war, there was only one man between the ages of 18 and 30 for every 15 women. Each town and school in Britain has memorials to those lost. Both of my own grandmother’s brothers were killed in Ypres, and that was considered the norm. The United States lost 116,000 men with over 200,000 wounded. Europe has never really recovered. Military strategists were not prepared for modernized combat, and it has been said that the armies were lions led by donkeys. In a macabre way, the chief winners of that cultural suicide were Lenin and Hitler.    Today is the one-hundredth anniversary of the Armistice signaled by a bugle at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year. The poet Siegfried Sassoon, decorated for bravery, was latterly put in a psychiatric ward for begging an end to the killing. He became a Catholic and is buried near the grave of Monsignor Ronald Knox whom he admired. In tribute to one of his fallen comrades, he wrote: I know that he is lost among the stars, And may return no more but in their light.  

Mel Tormé syngur með The Boss Brass lögin I'm Glad There Is You, Autumn Serenade, In The Still Of The Night, I Get A Kick Out Of You, If You Could See Me Now, I'll Be Around og Nobody Else But Me. Kvartett Lionel Hampton leikur lögin Soft Winds, Tenderly, That Old Black Magic og On The Sunny Side Of The Street. Stórsveit Reykjavíkur leikur lögin Vindhviður, Naima, Ya Gotta Try, Blues For Thad, Perdido og Slo Funk. Erroll Garner leikur lögin Can't Help Lovin Dat Man, Ol' Man River, Why Do I Love You, Dearly Beloved, A Foggy Day og Love Walke In.

In the inaugural episode of Pardo's Turn, Broadway legend Chuck Cooper, best known for his Tony Award-winning performance in THE LIFE sings the iconic "Ol' Man River" from the groundbreaking 1927 musical SHOW BOAT. The analysis centers on the use of the pentatonic scale, and some clever reharmonizations. Chuck and I discuss the historical significance of the song, and his personal journey with it, especially in relation to the Paul Robeson lyrics, which he sang for its rendition in PRINCE OF BROADWAY.

Berit Andersson syngur með Göran Strandberg lögin Once Upon A Summertime, Skylark, Children of Another World, Sweet and Bitter, Shadows og Cry To The Stars. Jan Johansson og félagar leika lögin Round Midnight, Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho, I'm Gonna Go Fishin', Two Little Pearls, Django, Cubano Chant og Lover Man. Nueva Manteca leikur lögin Ol' Man River, St. Louis Blues, Wild Man Blues, When It's Sleepy Time Down South, Down By The Riverside og When The Saints Go Marching In. Að síðustu syngur Wenche Gausdal lögin Two Times Eighteen, They Say You Must og What Is This Thing Called Love.

Ol' Man River

On this episode of Opera for Everyone, we listen to Showboat - which isn't - strictly speaking - an opera, but could be considered the first American exploration of the operatic genre and the birth of the modern musical. "The show follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as "Ol' Man River", "Make Believe", and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man". The musical was first produced in 1927 by Florenz Ziegfeld. The premiere of Show Boat on Broadway was an important event in the history of American musical theatre. It "was a radical departure in musical storytelling, marrying spectacle with seriousness", compared with the trivial and unrealistic operettas, light musical comedies and "Follies"-type musical revues that defined Broadway in the 1890s and early 20th century." Source - Wikipedia

Paul Robeson was a modern renaissance man: lawyer, linguist, actor, professional athlete, civil rights activist and one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century, famous for "Ol Man River" on Broadway and The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson became an international superstar before his socialist political convictions brought him to be white-washed from public view by the US government in the McCarthy era. Author Jeff Sparrow tells Robeson's story and explores his relevance to contemporary political movements in a new book: No Way But This. He will be in conversation with journalist Ellie Mae O'Hagan.

Knas ser denne gang på Broadway-musicals og hvilke numre de gennem tiden har kastet af sig. En time med alt fra "Ol' Man River" til "Aquarius". Og kunstnere som Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Barney Kessel og Ella Fitzgerald. Ingen dikkedarer. Ingen slinger i valsen. Jazz med jazz på. Musik du kender. Vært Jens Rasmussen henter guldet frem fra gemmerne og spiller jazzmusik fra 1920-1970. www.dr.dk/p8jazz

Pianist Robert Wyatt on Jerome Kern, the Godfather of American Musical Theater Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates Our guest today, Robert Wyatt, an American music specialist, researcher and pianist, and presenter of the Smithsonian Associates event, Jerome Kern the godfather of American Musical Theater, says Jerome Kern did it all, and is where it all began… Jerome Kern first began to get some real attention when his hits such as “Ol man River,” which you're listening to now, sung by Paul Robeson, and Kern's work with collaborators, Oscar Hammerstein, Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, caught the music-loving public's attention with musicals that successfully wedded Kern's great music, lyrics, and libretto. Kern's transformative work with musicals such as his famous musical play Showboat, famous for “Ol Man River,” (which you're listening to now, sung by Paul Robeson) “Bill,” and “Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine.” As part of our Smithsonian Associates series, today we speak to pianist and research expert, Robert Wyatt, about Jerome Kern the godfather of American Musical Theater. Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show, Robert Wyatt, who'll be presenting at the Ripley Center, Washington, DC, May 18, 2017.

André Previn og félagar leika lög úr Showboat: Can' Help Loving Dat Man, Ol' Man River, Nobody Else But Me, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Life On The Wicked Stage, Make-Believe, I Might Fall Back On You og Bill. Tríó Les McCann leikur lögin: Love For Sale, I Am In Love, I Can Dig It, Doin' That Thing og Blues 5. Kvintett Woody Shaw leikur fjögur lög: Stormy Weather, IfI Were A Bell, Dat Dere og Steve's Blues.

What can one Broadway tune reveal about the history of American race relations? In his book "Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song," musicologist Todd Decker explores how the meaning of "Ol' Man River" has been reshaped over time. Discover the song's surprising journey from Broadway ballad to pop anthem, dance ditty, activist anthem, and beyond. (A version of this episode was first released in 2013.)

What can the history of one Broadway song reveal about American race relations? In Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song, now available through Amazon and Oxford University Press, musicologist Todd Decker explores how one show tune has been shaped and reshaped over time. Decker joined Hold That Thought to share how "Ol' Man River" transformed from a Broadway ballad into a dance ditty, an activist anthem, and more.

In his upcoming book Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"?: The Life of an American Song, Todd Decker, associate professor of musicology at Washington University in St. Louis, reveals how one song has been shaped and reshaped over time. From Paul Robeson to Frank Sinatra - from the era of big bands to the civil rights movement - every performance of "Ol' Man River" has a political dimension involving the evolution of race relations in the United States. Whether performed as a dance ditty or a means of protest, the seemingly endless malleability of this 1927 Broadway tune provides a window onto the many ways that American music has been used to express both personal and cultural identity.

Big Band Serenade presents Bix Beiderbecke  was one of the great jazz musicians of the 1920's. Music in todays program listed in order of play. 1)"In The Mist"-1927, 2)"In The Dark Flases",3)"Davenport Blues"-1925 w/Bix Beiderbecke and his Rhythm Jugglers,4)"Lazy Daddy"-1924 w/The Wolverine Orchestra,5)"Way Donw Younder In New Orleans"-1927 w/Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra,6)"Look At the World And Smile"-1927 w/Jean Goldkette and his Orchestra,7)"There Ain't No Land LikeDixieland To Me"-1927 w/The Broadway Bellhops,8)"My Heart Stood Still"-1928 w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra,9)"Ol' Man River"-1928 w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra,10)"Loney Melody"-1928 w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra,11)"Lovable"-1928 w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra,12)"Forget Me Not"-1928 w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

A CBC “Off the Beaten Track” episode in which I talk about Showboat and the history of the song Old Man River. Originally aired on August 20, 2000 on CBC Radio’s Mainstreet program in Prince Edward Island. Ol’ Man River Introduction: A brief history of the song “Ol’ Man River,” along with two very different interpretations by Canadian artists Curtis Driedger and Jane Siberry. Show Boat In 1926, a book called “Show Boat” by Edna Ferber was published – she was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan who had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for her book So Big. Show Boat follows the life of Magnolia, daughter of the captain of the riverboat The Cotton Blossom. Magnolia marries a gambler, Gaylord Ravenal. As a result of his gambling, they separate Magnolia moves to Chicago where she takes up life in musical comedy. Their daughter follows her mother into show business, and eventually Magnolia and Gaylord are reunited years later at a performance of their now internationally famous daughter. Woven throughout this plot is the sub-plot concerning the lives of the black workers on the riverboats, and marriage of Magnolia’s best friend Julie La Verne and her husband, which runs afoul of the law because it is discovered that Julie is of mixed black and white heritage, and this is against the law. In 1927, collaborators Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II adapted the book into a Broadway show. Show Boat the musical was groundbreaking when it premiered in 1927, as musicals up to that point hadn’t had a coherent plot or songs tied to the action. Show Boat is said in many circles to mark the beginning of American musical theatre. Show Boat originally played Broadway in 1927, was adapted into a movie in 1936 and again in 1951, and was revived on Broadway in 1946, and several times thereafter, most famously in recent years in 1994 by Garth Drabinsky. Ol’ Man River The song Ol’ Man River is sung by Joe, one of the riverboat workers, several times throughout the musical. Edna Ferber said in her autobiography: “…Jerome Kern appeared at my apartment late one afternoon with a strange look of quiet exultation in his eyes. He sat down at the piano. He didn’t play the piano particularly well and his singing voice, though true, was negligible. He played and sang ‘Ol’ Man River.’ The music mounted, mounted, and I give you my word my hair stood on end, the tears came to my eyes, I breathed like a heroine in a melodrama. This was great music. This was music that would outlast Jerome Kern’s day and mine. I have never heard it since without that emotional surge. When SHOW BOAT was revived at the Casino Theater in New York just four years after its original production at the Ziegfeld I saw a New York first-night audience, after Paul Robeson’s singing of ‘Ol’ Man River,’ shout and cheer and behave generally as I’ve never seen an audience behave in any theater in all my years of playgoing…” The song is most closely associated with Paul Robeson, who played Joe in the Broadway production of Show Boat and in the 1936 movie. In the original 1927 lyrics, it’s written: I gits weary and sick of tryin’; I’m tired of livin’ and scared of dyin’ And Ol’ man river, he just keeps rollin’ along. Robeson later revised the lyrics to: I keeps laffin’ instead of cryin’ I must keep fightin’ until I’m dyin’ And Ol’ man river, he just keeps rollin’ along. Roberson, who had been a football star and then an actor, went on to a life as a political activist. Canadian Singers on Ol’ Man River Back on June 1, 1990, I was program director at Trent Radio, a community radio station in Peterborough, Ontario. We organized an evening of performances by local musicians at the Market Hall in downtown Peterborough. One of the performers was Curtis Driedger, formerly of the infamous Toronto band the CeeDees. Here’s some of his performance from that night, recorded live and originally broadcast on Trent Radio… [clip from “Curtis Dreidger live at Artspace”, recorded June 1, 1990; on cassette tape, queued] Toronto singer/songwriter Jane Siberry, who has, in recent years, been running her musical career largely through her own Sheeba Records website – www.sheeba.ca — is about to release an album of Celtic and American spirituals called “Hush.” From that album, here is her own rendition of “Ol’ Man River,” which you will immediately see is quite different from Curtis’ [clip from “Hush” by Jane Siberry, track 9]