Paul Robeson CHEE LAI Songs Of New China Liu Liang-Mo KEYNOTE 3x78 set Chinese
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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 OR ANY OTHER WRITING.
THE SPINE HAS SOME WEAR AS SHOWN
THE VINYL RECORDS ARE IN POOR CONDITION. ONE RECORD HAS A CHIP AND ONE HAS A CRACK.
JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE IN CASE SOMEONE WANTS IT AS IS.
CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR LOOKING.
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