A Hand is on the Gate [sound recording]
date: label: Date
content: 1966
notes: label: Notes
content: Program and biographical notes on container. Performer(s): Musical revue interspersing folk and popular songs with recitations of Black poetry ; Roscoe Lee Browne, director ; performed by Leon Bibb, Gloria Foster, Moses Gunn, Ellen Holly, James Earl Jones, Joshephine Prermice and Cicely Tyson ; music performed by Stuart Scharf, guitar ; Bill Lee, bass ; Floyd Williams, percussion ; Seldon Powell, flute. Production notes: Recorded in New York City, Sept. 26, 27, and 29, 1966.
label: Table of contents
content: 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
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
topic: label: Topic
content: Musicals
label: Topic
content: Folksong revival
label: Topic
content: Poetry
culture: label: Culture
content: African American
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: Verve Folkways.9040-20C
label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-LP-3862
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 phonograph record : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in