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WTF... rude ignorant people yelling out and screaming because THEY want to hear themselves. Try that on Broadway and you would be thrown out.

Treasure 😢😢😢😢😢😢😅😅😅😂😂😂

Spine chilling!! RIP This Symphony Orchestra is incredible. As for James Hyter, what a voice, it's saddening to know that he is no longer with us. I'm also saddened to learn that Maestro Balter is also no longer with us. R.I.P. Mr. James Hyter and Maestro Alan Balter.

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I met Mr. Hyter back in 2001 when the Memphis Symphony and Chorus performed Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" at Eudora Auditorium. He was such a gracious and dignified southern gentleman. I told him how much I loved hearing him sing "Ol' Man River" and expressed what a disgrace it was that he was no longer allowed to sing that wonderful song for Memphis in May Sunset Symphony. He told me he missed doing it. Many, many years ago Alan Balter brought the Memphis Symphony to the National Guard armory in Bolivar, TN and my family and I went to see the show. I met Alan. He too was such a nice man.

This seems to be where we peaked as society.

This gives me strength to believe in humanity

Civilization defeats barbarism.

The river kept us all alive and fed ....a complicated relationship ❤

I love this! Thank you. Many years ago got to hear him sing this at the closing of Memphis in May but it several years earlier. Mr. Hyter singing that song (along with the orchestra) was a huge event at MIM. What a voice!

❤shamanta vinograd

Les ruses sont etait des crimineles

TIMES KEEP ROLLING ON!

Una gran voz, para una gran canción, no cualquiera da la tesitura para aceptar el reto.. Salud2

🙏❣️✌️🇺🇸LOVE THIS! RIP Covenant School Angels🇺🇸✌️❣️🙏

Gorgeous !!!!

Excelente

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Something about that Mississippi...

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wow! what a performance!

He took all the racial elements out of the song, but the song was about slaves working on the Mississippi from Hannibal or S. Louis, MO to New Orleans.

I have loved this song ever since I heard PAUL ROBESON sing it in SHOWBOAT in 1956 I was 5 Years old, it has remained with me my whole life and I would play it for democrats to let them know that we know what they were all about and what they did with our African-American brothers and sisters and now this man has re-vamped it and it’s just as beautiful now as it was when I first heard it this man is just awesome thank you so much kind sir ❤

sentiment

"In the evening light,I saw the waters of the Ohio mingle with those of the Mississippi.I had dreamed of the Mississippi listening to the 'Old Man River',...."""Simone de Beauvoir Force of CirCumtance'

How many people remember the good years of the Sunset Symphony when you could spread out a blanket & enjoy the music without some drunk stepping in the potato salad?

Excellent performance!

Nice sungs ol man missi sippi

I remember watching that performance on TV at my Great Grandmother's house, with her and my Grandmother. They televised the Sunset Symphony then, I don't think they even have it anymore. So bittersweet, there won't be another like Mr. Hyter! I doubt that song would be allowed to be sung today, with all the political correctness, I'm sure someone would be offended.

Beautiful

Memphis ♥️

@4:21 ...even that little Kid knows the words to this Song!

Magnificent… nothing more to say .

Sometimes when I'm in the car my mom will sing Old Man River but she keeps forgetting the lines but ready on Scooby-Doo he was saying he said old man River and he cracked me up and my mom 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Maravillos version de una maravillosa cancon

WWWWOOOOOOOOWWWWWW what a line "I'm tired of living, but scared of dying"

Best audience out there

I first saw and heard Paul Robeson sing this song in the movie when I was a young boy in the early 1950s. The movie was in color that time. Happy to have seen it on Turner several times. Makes me cry to imagine the pain and suffering of too many black folks.

We sang this song on jump run when skydiving just before we jumped out of a perfectly good airplane and needlessly risked our lives. Oh wait, we were singing "Down by the River". Nevermind, good songs anyway.

Wundervoll. ...💗

O Ganga behti hai kuon.

James Hyter was fantastic singing this song. I've worked a venue several times during the Sunset Symphony in Memphis. Never saw him singing the entire song, but I sure heard him. Seems like everyone in hearing distance stopped what they were doing when he started singing. A moment to remember, always.

hi mark

You just can't beat the original. YK

The most epic version of this song

Wonderful voice-magnificent performance-only spoiled by sanitized lyrics.

Wonderful voice-magnificent performance-only spoiled by sanitized lyrics.

13 people dislijked this!!!!??? Are you kidding me what are you tone deaf !!!???

Yes, this bring back memories of Memphis.

Very beautiful song, soulful, song of river ,song of life ,