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A hand is on the gate an original cast recording and Ivor David Balding Production for the Establishment Theatre Company, Inc.

Title
A hand is on the gate [sound recording] : an original cast recording and Ivor David Balding Production for the Establishment Theatre Company, Inc.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : Verve Folkways, [1966]

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Additional Authors
  • Bibb, Leon
  • Browne, Roscoe Lee
  • Foster, Gloria, 1936-2001
  • Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993
  • Holly, Ellen, 1931-2023
  • Jones, James Earl
  • Premice, Josephine
  • Tyson, Cicely
Description
2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono.; 12 in.
Subject
  • Revues
  • Folk songs, English > United States
  • Folk music > United States
  • Popular music > 1961-1970
  • African Americans > Music
  • American poetry > African American authors
Genre/Form
Original cast recordings.
Note
  • Musical revue interspersing folk and popular songs with poetry recitations.
  • Program and biographical notes on container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded Sept. 26, 27 and 29, 1966 in New York City.
Contents
From the dark tower ; The negro speaks of rivers ; Frederick Douglass ; We wear the mask (4:34) -- Runagate runagate ; From the dark symphony: Lento grave ; O black and unknown bards ; 'Buked and scorned (10:04) -- Ol' Lem ; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem ; Southern mansion ; Mother to son (4:20) -- Sence you went away ; When Malindy sings ; A negro love song ; All hid ; Little boy (8:12) -- An old women remembers ; Between the world and me ; My angel ; Dink's song (11:09) -- 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 ; From speech: I have heard (15:35) -- La vie c'est la vie ; At early morn (1:35) -- The elevator man ; Look at that gal ; Glory, glory (3:49) -- To a young poet ; From four questions ; Counterpoint (1:55) -- Meanwhile a Mississippi mother burns bacon and the last quatrain of the aballad of Emmett Till ; Bound no'th blues ; Ma Rainey ; Get up, blues ; The rebel ; Distant drum (19:35) -- No images ; Why try ; Ontogeny recapitulates ; Robert Whitmore ; Harlem sweeties (6:10) -- From a street in Bronzeville: Kitchenette ; After Winter ; When in Rome ; American gothic ; To Satch (3:50) -- Jane Jane ; Epigram ; Conception ; Alien (3:01) -- My Lord, what a morning ; The preacher ruminates ; Personal ; Preface to a 20 volume suicide note ; Careless love (6:51) -- This ain't no mass thing ; Rocks and gravel ; If the birds (:25).
Call Number
*LZR 70455
OCLC
68910184
Title
A hand is on the gate [sound recording] : an original cast recording and Ivor David Balding Production for the Establishment Theatre Company, Inc.
Imprint
[New York, N.Y.] : Verve Folkways, [1966]
Performer
Performed by Leon Bibb, Roscoe Lee Browne, Gloria Foster, Moses Gunn, Ellen Holly, James Earl Jones, Josephine Prémice and CicelyTyson ; with instrumental acc.
Event
Recorded Sept. 26, 27 and 29, 1966 in New York City.
Added Author
Bibb, Leon, performer.
Browne, Roscoe Lee, director.
Browne, Roscoe Lee, performer.
Foster, Gloria, 1936-2001, performer.
Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993, performer.
Holly, Ellen, 1931-2023, performer.
Jones, James Earl, performer.
Premice, Josephine, performer.
Tyson, Cicely, performer.
Publisher No.
FV-9040-2-OC Verve Folkways
Research Call Number
*LZR 70455 Program notes on container.
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