Many Thousand Gone

Coming off last week's episode where we heard Paul Robeson's first commercial recording from 1947 of the song No More Auction Block, we trace the evolution of this song from it's likely 19th century composition by black workers held in slavery, to it's many interpretations in the mid and late 20th century, as well as it's melodic offspring in the form of well known songs We Shall Overcome and Blowin' In The Wind. No More Auction Block | Paul Robeson | 1952 No More Auction Block For Me | Odetta | At Carnegie Hall | 1960 No More Auction Block For Me - William Riley, 1943 | Helen Creighton | Sankofa Songs, A Legacy of Roots and Rhythm: African Nova Scotian Songs From The Collection Of Dr. Helen Creighton | 2019 No More Auction Block For Me | Alan Mills | O’ Canada: A History in Song | 1956 No More Auction Block For Me | Sweet Honey In The Rock | Songs of the Civil War | 1991 No More Auction Block | Pete Seeger | America’s Favorite Ballads - Vol. IV | 1961 No More Auction Block - Live at the Gaslight Cafe, New York, NY - October, 1962 | Bob Dylan | The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3 | 1991 Blowin’ In The Wind | Bob Dylan | The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan | 1963 We Shall Overcome | Sing Out! Hootenanny | 1963 (recorded between 1950-1955) We Will Overcome | Texas Bill Strength | 1952 No More, No More | Richie Havens | Live at the Cellar Door and at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium | 1972