Paul Robeson "Gloomy Sunday"

Sadly one Sunday I waited and waited
With flowers in my arms for the dream I'd created
I waited 'til dreams, like my heart, were all broken
The flowers were all dead and the words were unspoken
The grief that I knew was beyond all consoling
The beat of my heart was a bell that was tolling

Saddest of Sundays

Then came a Sunday when you came to find me
They bore me to church and I left you behind me
My eyes could not see one I wanted to love me
The earth and the flowers are forever above me
The bell tolled for me and the wind whispered, "Never!"
But you I have loved and I bless you forever

Last of all Sundays

g l o o m y   s u n d a y

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r e c o r d i n g s   ( s e l e c t i o n )

a r t i s t	r e c o r d i n g	t y p e	y e a r	##
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1936*	US
Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1936*	US
Henry King & his Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1936*	US
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1936*	US
Paul Robeson	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1936*	US
The Albert Sandler Trio with Hildegarde	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1936*	UK/US
Damia	Sombre Dimanche	10" 78rpm	1936	FR
Trío Piana-Garza-Kohan / Mercedes Simone	Triste Domingo	10" 78rpm	1937	AR
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra	Don't Fall Asleep	10" 78rpm	1940	US
Billie Holiday	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1941	US
Don Byas	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1946	US
Billy Eckstine & his Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1946	US
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday	10" 78rpm	1949	US
Shelly Manne & Bill Russo	Deep People	LP	1951	US
Jerry Wald Orchestra	Listen to The Music of Jerry Wald-2	LP	1955	US
Page Cavanaugh	Carries the Torch	LP	1956	US
Leroy Holmes & his Orchestra	Music for Crazy Mixed-Up People	LP	1957	US
Josh White	Josh White Sings Ballads and Blues	LP	1957	US
Woody Herman & his Orchestra	Live at Peacock Lane Hollywood	live LP	1958	US
The Creed Taylor Orchestra	Shock Music in Hi-Fi	LP	1958	US
Mel Tormé	Tormé	LP	1958	US
Mickey Baker	Wildest Guitar	LP	1959	US
Miss Toni Fisher	The Big Hurt	LP	1959	US
Bev Kelly	Love Locked Out	LP	1959	US
Claudia Thompson	Goodbye to Love	LP	1959	US
Lorez Alexandria	Sing No Sad Songs For Me	LP	1961	US
The Bob Brookmeyer Orchestra	Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments	LP	1961	US
Johnny Griffin with Strings & Brass	White Gardenia	LP	1961	US
Sarah Vaughan	The Divine One	LP	1961	US
Dorothy Ashby	Dorothy Ashby	LP	1962	US
Ketty Lester	Love Letters	LP	1962	US
Peter Nero	Hail The Conquering Hero	LP	1963	US
Roy Hamilton	Sentimental, Lonely and Blue	LP	1964	US
Jimmy Smith	Monster	LP	1965	US
Stan Kenton	The World We Know	LP	1967	US
Herbie Mann	The Herbie Mann String Album	LP	1967	US
Anna Black	Meet Anna Black	LP	1968	US
Genesis	In The Beginning	LP	1968	US
Carmen McRae	The Sound Of Silence	LP	1968	US
Rita Moss	Superb	LP	1968	US
Ray Charles	I'm All Yours-Baby!	LP	1969	US
Joanne Vent	Black and White of it is Blues	LP	1969	US
Barbara Dickson	Do Right Woman	LP	1970	UK
Big Maybelle	The Last of Big Maybelle	LP	1973	US
Jimmy Witherspoon	Spoonful	LP	1975	US
Etta Jones	My Mother's Eyes	LP	1977	US
Lydia Lunch	Queen of Siam	LP	1980	US
Elvis Costello & the Attractions	Trust	LP	1981	UK
The Associates	Sulk	LP	1982	UK
Marc and The Mambas	Torment And Toreros	LP	1983	UK
Swansway	Soul Train	single	1983	UK
Hades	Born To Metalize	comp. LP	1984	US
Peter Wolf	Lights Out	LP	1985	US
Christian Death	Atrocities	LP	1986	US
Marianne Faithfull	A Perfect Stranger	comp. LP	1987	UK
Serge Gainsbourg	You're Under Arrest	LP	1987	FR
Abbey Lincoln	Abbey Sings Billie Volume 1	LP	1987	US
Cats Laughing	Cats Laughing	cassette	1988	US
Carol Kidd	The Night We Called It A Day	LP	1990	US
Diamanda Galás	The Singer	LP	1992	US
Sinéad O'Connor	Am I Not Your Girl	LP	1992	IR
Charles Brown	Just a Lucky So and So	LP	1994	US
Satan's Cheerleaders	Infinity	LP	1994	US
Gitane Demone	With Love And Dementia	live LP	1995	US
Sarah McLachlan	Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff	comp. LP	1996	CA
Lil Darling Hot Club	All That Swing	LP	1997	IT
Danny Michel	Clear	LP	1998	CA
Satan's Sadists	Sympathetic Majesties Request	comp. LP	1998	US
Björk	Stormy Weather	comp. LP	1999	IS
Heather Nova	Gloomy Sunday	single	1999	BM
The Smithereens	God Save The Smithereens	LP	1999	US
Sarah Brightman	La Luna	LP	2000	UK
Kronos Quartet	Kronos Caravan	LP	2000	US
Ricky Nelson	Legacy	comp. LP	2000**	US
Hans Koller	Lovers and Strangers	LP	2001	DE
Iva Bittová	j.h.	LP	2002	CZ
Singing Loins	The Complete and Utter	LP	2004	UK
Venetian Snares	Rossz Csillag Alatt Született***	LP	2005	CA
Eminemmylou	Muthabanjo	LP	2005	UK

##	Nationality
	US	-	United States of America
	FR	-	France
	AR	-	Argentina
	UK	-	United Kingdom
	IR	-	Republic of Ireland
	CA	-	Canada
	IT	-	Italy
	IS	-	Iceland
	BM	-	Bermuda
	DE	-	Germany
	CZ	-	Czech Republic

*	'Gloomy Sunday / Desire' 10" 78rpm released by Hal Kemp & his Orchestra on 5th March 1936 (US)
	'Gloomy Sunday / I Don't Want To Make History (I Just Want To Make Love)' 10" 78rpm released by Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra on 9th March 1936 (US)
	'Gloomy Sunday / A Waltz Was Born In Vienna' 10" 78rpm released by Henry King & his Orchestra on 10th March 1936 (US)
	'Gloomy Sunday / A Waltz Was Born In Vienna' 10" 78rpm released by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra on 13th March 1936 (US)
	'Gloomy Sunday / Honey' 10" 78rpm released by Paul Robeson on 26th March 1936 (US)
	'Gloomy Sunday' 10" 78rpm released by The Albert Sandler Trio with Hildegarde on 3rd April 1936 (UK)

**	Gloomy Sunday was originally recorded by Ricky Nelson in 1958 but remained unreleased until the "Legacy" box set compilation was issued in 2000.

***	LP track 'Öngyilkos Vasárnap' samples extensively from 1941 Billie Holiday recording.

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