That is the most powerful version of this song that anyone has sung in a long time.... just brilliant. Like a perfect performance of Hamlet, it leaves me stunned!
@RealMartialNova This song has nothing to do with communism. It was sung during the Tsarist days, long before turn of the century. A cursory search would have told you that.
Maynor's voice is extremely vibrant, and therefore difficult to record. Sometimes some bluntness and harshness comes through in his records that isn't apparent in person (trust me) during his live performances. Robeson's voice in general was warmer and more round. But remember Robeson typically used microphones from the early 1930s on. In Maynor's voice, the vibrancy that can seem rough under close miking simply makes it carry further without amplifiication
I can remember in the late 1960's singing this song in primary school. Our teacher played a vinyl record of this song around every 2-3 weeks and the whole class sang along. She had the words hanging down from the blackboard in the front of the class. I love this version of the song.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SRe1dsXs6_s.html&ab_channel=TheOktavismChannel The deep voice at the end in this one, is some of the lowest I've heard. It sounds lower than an old ships fog horn.
You've done better than Paul Robeson on this song! Black Lives Matter - keep Robeson's tradition going and remind folks how the great Robeson had to struggle. Kevin......... I'm nearly 70: My Dad saw Robeson performing live in Wales, it must have been after WW2? Robeson was welcomed by the Welsh Miners after rejection by the US in the McCarthy era for his Politics - socialist, and black.
