HOUSE I LIVE IN, THE

Created on 25/09/2001
Latest update on 14/01/2024

Artist: Earl Robinson
Author: Lewis Allan/Earl Robinson
Label: V-disc
Year: 1944

Subtitle: That's America To Me. Written by the author of Strange Fruit (see there).

Covers:

1945:

Paul Robeson

1945:

Josh White [Josh also cut Beloved Comrade from this same Lewis Allan, a song about the late President Roosevelt]

1945:

Frank Sinatra [in film The House I Live In and not only there; he sang it throughout his whole career; Sinatra came to see and learn from Josh White performing this song, at the very house he lived in]

1949:

Ravens

1955:

Roy Hamilton

1956:

Sonny Rollins

1960:

Sam Cooke

1961:

Sarah Vaughan

1962:

Mahalia Jackson

1963:

Archie Shepp

1968:

Kim Weston

2005:

Dianne Reeves

2006:

Leon & Eric Bibb [on a Paul Robeson tribute]

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