Research Catalog

Title

A Hand is on the gate [sound recording].

Publication

New York : Verve Folkways, [1966]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bibb, Leon.
• Browne, Roscoe Lee.
• Foster, Gloria, 1936-2001.
• Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993.
• Holly, Ellen.
• Jones, James Earl.
• Lee, Bill, 1928-
• Powell, Seldon.
• Premice, Josephine.
• Scharf, Stuart.
• Tyson, Cicely.
• Williams, Floyd.

Description

2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo.; 12 in.

Alternative Title

• 'Buked and scorned.
• All hid.
• Ballad of Rudolph Reed.
• Careless love.
• Dink's song.
• Get up, blues.
• Glory glory.
• Harlem sweeties.
• Jane Jane.
• Little boy.
• My Lord, what a morning.
• O' Shenandoah.
• Rocks and gravel.

Subjects

• African Americans > Music
• American poetry > African American authors
• Musicals > Excerpts

Note

• Musical revue interspersing folk and popular songs with recitations of Black poetry.
• Program and biographical notes on container.

Event (note)

• Recorded in New York City, Sept. 26, 27, and 29, 1966.

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.

Call Number

*LZR 47638

LCCN

r 67000423

Title

A Hand is on the gate [sound recording].

Imprint

New York : Verve Folkways, [1966]

Performer

Roscoe Lee Browne, director ; performed by Leon Bibb, Gloria Foster, Moses Gunn, Ellen Holly, James Earl Jones, Joshephine Prémice and Cicely Tyson ; music performed by Stuart Scharf, guitar ; Bill Lee, bass ; Floyd Williams, percussion ; Seldon Powell, flute.

Event

Recorded in New York City, Sept. 26, 27, and 29, 1966.

Added Author

Bibb, Leon. Performer

Browne, Roscoe Lee. Performer

Foster, Gloria, 1936-2001. Performer

Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993. Performer

Holly, Ellen. Performer

Jones, James Earl. Performer

Premice, Josephine.

Tyson, Cicely. Performer

Lee, Bill, 1928- Performer

Scharf, Stuart. Performer

Williams, Floyd. Performer

Powell, Seldon. Performer

Added Title

'Buked and scorned.

All hid.

Little boy.

Dink's song.

Ballad of Rudolph Reed.

O' Shenandoah.

Glory glory.

Get up, blues.

Harlem sweeties.

Jane Jane.

My Lord, what a morning.

Careless love.

Rocks and gravel.

Publisher No.

FV-9040 OC Verve Folkways

Research Call Number

*LZR 47638 Program notes on container.