Chee Lai Songs of New China, Paul Robeson 78 RPM 3 Keynote 109
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In November 1941, Robeson, Liu and the Chinese People’s Chorus – which Liu had organised among members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance, a labour union, in New York City’s Chinatown – recorded an album with Keynote Records entitled Chee Lai! Songs of New China. Liu’s liner notes for the album tell that he saw the collaboration as ‘a strong token of solidarity between the Chinese and the Negro People’. Robeson’s notes read:
Chee Lai! (Arise!) is on the lips of millions of Chinese today, a sort of unofficial anthem, I am told, typifying the unconquerable spirit of this people. It is a pleasure and a privilege to sing both this song of modern composition and the old folk songs to which a nation in struggle has put new words.
Madame Sun Yat-sen, the Leftist sister of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, China’s contemporary first lady, praised Robeson as ‘the voice of the people of all lands’ and ‘our own Liu Liang-mo, who has taught a nation of soldiers, guerrillas, farmers, and road builders to sing while they toil and fight.’ Madame Sun added that she hoped the album of songs ‘that blend the harmonies of East and West [would] be another bond between free peoples.’ The New York Times lauded the album as one of the year’s best, and it quickly became popular around the world.
THIS SET DOES NOT HAVE THE NOTES BUT IT HAS THE LEGAL STAMP OF AUTHENTICITY AND PROHIBITIVE INFORMATION ON THE LAST PAGE
ALL SIX SIDES ARE AMAZINGLY NICE CONSIDERING THE AGE OF THE RECORDS
ALL 6 LABELS ARE IN AMAZING CONDITION
CLEAN BRILLIANT AND NO MARKINGS
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