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• View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Ol'Man River on Discogs. Label: Mr. Pickwick - MPD • Format: Vinyl LP, Compilation • Country: France • Genre: Jazz, Pop • Style: Vocal/5(13).

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• Nov 17,  · A Broadway classic, a call to action, and an incredibly malleable popular song, "Ol' Man River" is not your typical musical theater standard. Written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in the s for Show Boat, "Ol Man River" perfectly blends two seemingly incongruous traits-the gravity of a Negro spiritual and the crowd-pleasing power of a Broadway anthem/5(3).

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• "Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the musical Show Boat that contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River. It is sung from the point of view of a black stevedore on a showboat, and is the most famous song from the show. The song is meant to be performed in a slow tempo, it is sung complete once in the musical's lengthy first Composer(s): Jerome Kern.

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• Ol' Man River lyrics: Dere's an ol' man called de Mississippi Dat's de ol' man dat I'd like to be! What does he care if de world's got troubles? What does he care if de land ain't free? Ol' man river, Dat ol' man river.

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• South African actor: His birth name was Alan Edgar Stratford Johns. He as born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and died in Heveningham, Suffolk, England from a heart condition. He was married to Nanette Parsons from until his death and was the father of four children with her.

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• Jan 31,  · Alan Edgar Stratford Johns, actor: born Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 22 February ; married Nanette Ryder (one son, three daughters); died .

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• Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September – 29 January ), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars.

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• South African-born Stratford Johns was forever associated with the role of tough, abrasive Superintendant Charlie Barlow on TV's Z Cars () and its sequels Softly Softly: Task Force () and Barlow at Large (). In between, he also played Barlow in the miniseries Jack the Ripper () (which, in turn, led to a 'cold case' investigation series called Second Verdict ()).

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