Ol’ Man River  4853

Locations in Harold's Library

• Great Male Singers (Original Keys for Singers) (book)
  • #transcription
  • Instrumentation: voice • piano
  • Key: Bb
  • Notes: transcription of the arrangement recorded by Bing Crosby
• Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Volume 1, Baritone/Bass (Revised Edition) (book)
  • Instrumentation: voice • piano
  • Key: C
  • Notes: solo part only
• Sinatra – A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (tv)
  • 00:09:45
  • Cast: Frank Sinatra
  • Notes: Textual choices: "Here we all work while the rich folk play." ... "Let me go 'way from the white man boss."
• Sound of Musicals: 1. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (tv) (excerpt only)
  • 00:16:00
  • Cast: ??? (bass)
• Reds (1948-1953) (tv) (excerpt only)
  • 00:09:20
  • Cast: Paul Robeson (Communist)
  • Notes: Texts: "Tote that barge, lift that bale, you show a little grit an' you lands in jail. But I keeps laughin' instead of crying, I must keep fighting' until I'm dyin' and Ol' Man River, he'll jus' keep rollin' along."
• The Broadway Sound (tv)
  • 00:24:30
  • Cast: Rodney Earl Clarke (bass-baritone), The Men of the Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
  • Creatives: Robert Russell Bennett (arranger)
  • Notes: preceded by Sierra Boggess dialogue with Earl Clarke following 'Make Believe': "Have you seen Miss Julie ... I've got to ask her what she things", "Better as the old river what he thinks"

Holdings which refer to this music

1. Ol’ Man River (radio)
2. Sound of Musicals: 1. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (tv) • 00:17:00 • Neil Brand comments on significance of transition from half-rhymes to full-rhymes in the song

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