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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2016, 09:22:24 PM

Title: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2016, 09:22:24 PM: This is lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Walter on November 23, 2016, 12:46:43 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2016, 09:22:24 PM
This is lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c
the link didn't work for me NS!
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 23, 2016, 01:14:52 AM: Quote from: Walter on November 23, 2016, 12:46:43 AM
the link didn't work for me NS!
I've tried repasting it, and it works for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Hope on November 23, 2016, 07:03:51 AM: Not sure whether there's a youtube clip of this, but PR also sang for (and with?) Welsh miners.
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Anchorman on November 23, 2016, 09:16:54 AM: Robeson was well respected by miners. When he sang at rallies or benefit concerts, he refused any fees or expenses. Sometimes he would stay, not in a local hotel, but with the shop steward of the local miners union. There are pics (though sadly not audio) of him at a miners rally in Cumnock, Ayrshire - and the crowds were immense. I have a pic of my uncle Sam (one of the rescue party at the hellish Knockshinnoch disaster, as a young man, with Paul at the venefit rally.
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 23, 2016, 01:42:45 PM: Quote from: Walter on November 23, 2016, 12:46:43 AM
the link didn't work for me NS!
There is an issue with posting YouTube links from Android devices for other devices. If you want to access anything that has m.YouTube rather than www.youtube in the link, you can by copying link and pasting in a new window. The link for this thread has been edited to allow direct access and we will retrospectively edit these over time.
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Walter on November 23, 2016, 01:57:02 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 23, 2016, 01:42:45 PM
There is an issue with posting YouTube links from Android devices for other devices. If you want to access anything that has m.YouTube rather than www.youtube in the link, you can by copying link and pasting in a new window. The link for this thread has been edited to allow direct access and we will retrospectively edit these over time.
NS I've got it thanks
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 24, 2016, 12:41:45 PM: Just to note that the links on the Music was my first love thread are pretty much fixed now, due to the extreme diligence of Gordon. Have been reading back through what is by far my favourite thread and there is some great stuff on it. It underlines though that we have some great lost posters, Scaramunga - Where are you? And I that the thread is haunted by the lost posts of Prof Wollofski, much missed.
Title: Re: Paul Robeson and the Edinburgh Miners
Post by: Brownie on November 24, 2016, 01:22:11 PM: That is lovely, NS, thank you.

Some years ago I watched the old film, "Proud Valley", mentioned in the clip, about miners in Wales in which Paul Robeson appeared.

I quite clearly remember him, with chorus of miners, singing "They (or You) can't stop us singing", which was marvellous.