Warning! Deleting this artist may remove other artists and scrobbles from y… Read Full Bio ↴Warning! Deleting this artist may remove other artists and scrobbles from your library - please handle this with caution! Note: You can view albums tagged as 'Various Artists' in your library here.
The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.
Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.
Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Prรถfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.
Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.
Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.
The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.
Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.
Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Prรถfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.
Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.
Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.
Old Black Joe
Various Artists Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Old Black Joe' by these artists:
A.M. Matrosenchor You wasn't fucking with the old me, old me, old…
Al Jolson Gone are the days When my heart was young and gay Gone…
Bob Chester And His Orchestra That old black magic has me in its spell That old…
Crazy Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers Gone are the days when my heart was young and…
Dr. William Truly Jr I put on my clothes like a body guard I put…
Dr. William Truly\ Jr. That old black magic has me in its spell That…
Elvis & Jerry Lee Gone are the days when my heart was young and…
Gene Krupa & His Orchestra That old black magic has me in its spell That old…
Glenn Miller That old black magic has me in its spell, That old…
Jerry Lee Lewis Gone are the days when my heart was young and…
Linda Gail Lewis Gone are the days When my heart was young and gay Gone…
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
The Glenn Miller Orchestra That old black magic has me in its spell, That old…
The Kelly Family Gone are the days when my heart was young and…
Tommy Dorsey Old black magic has me in its spell Old black magic…
Van Morrison Gone are the days When my heart was young and gay Gone…
The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
tony13985
Very moving song. The lyrics has crossed boundaries of all languages...
ๅฟซไน็ซฅๅนด ๅฆไปไธๅปไธๅค่ฟ
ไบฒ็ฑๆๅ ้ฝๅทฒ็ฆปๅผๅฎถๅญ
็ฆปๅผๅฐไธ ๅฐ้ฃๅคฉไธ็ไนๅญ
ๆๅฌ่งไปไปฌ่ฝปๅฃฐๆๆๅผๅค
ไธบไฝๅญๆณฃ ๅฆไปๆไธๅบๅฟงไผค
ไธบไฝๅนๆฏ ๆๅไธ่ฝ้็ธ่
ไธบไฝๆฒ็ ไบฒไบบๅปไธๅทฒๅคๅนด
ๆๅฌ่งไปไปฌ่ฝปๅฃฐๆๆๅผๅค
ๅนธ็ฆไผดไพฃ ๅฆไปๅๆฃไธ่ฅฟ
ๆไธญ็ฑๅฟ ๆฉๅทฒ็ฆปๆ่ฟๅป
ไปไปฌๅทฒๅฐ ๆๆๆธดๆ็ไนๅญ
ๆๅฌ่งไปไปฌ่ฝปๅฃฐๆๆๅผๅค
ๆๆฅไบ ๆๆฅไบ
ๆๅทฒๅนด่่ๅๅผฏ
ๆๅฌ่งไปไปฌ่ฝปๅฃฐๆๆๅผๅค
Ana C.
The song is sung from the perspective of an old black slave named Joe. He's nearing death. He's sad because all of his fellow slaves, those he was children with, those he spent time with in the cotton fields, even those younger slave children who he held on his knee--all are dead and gone.
It's a sentimental song about slavery, written by a white northerner and designed to make white people forget about the true pain of slavery--the cruelty of overseers and compelled labor, the pain engendered when slave traders broke up families, the slaves who died because they were over-worked, under-fed, sexually exploited, and cruelly beaten. That wasn't ALL of slavery, but it was a significant element of how antebellum slavery worked in the U.S. South, and it were those elements that were heightned, of course, in antebellum anti-slavery literature, especially the narratives written by Frederick Douglass, Henry "Box" Brown, and others.
This song wants us to forget all that. It wants us, amazingly, to think that slavery for old black Joe was a matter of feeling "young and gay" in the cotton fields, and fraternizing with friends there. Notice that although the song mentions cotton fields, it says absolutely nothing about work. Slavery was, at bottom, a form of forcibly organized labor in which white people owned black people's bodies (as chattel: moveable property) and had the legal right to extract labor from those bodies, all in the service of producing cotton, tobacco, and other cash crops and making a profit from that enterprise.
The song wants us to forget all that. Yet it also wants us to dwell, sentimentally, in the pain of a particular slave. It's asking us to feel for him, intensely. But it's not asking us to feel for his true plight--the stuff about labor, mistreatment, and broken-up families I've outlined above. Instead, it's misdirecting our attention and asking us to feel for him purely on a human level: he's a terribly lonely old man whose friends are gone, and he longs to join them.
Charles Szabo
Thanks!
Nati Aron
I remember hearing this song when I was very young and feeling for the plight of the protagonist. I honestly think this wave of literary criticism of "x work of art is bad, because it doesn't do y" is an incredible disservice, first and foremost to our hearts.
Edit: also, just found this - an ex-slave remembering how they used to sing "Old black Joe" in the fields:
https://youtu.be/ZPjQFJ_cA1E
Sunflower
I definitely agree with most of your exposition. However, several things are often left out of the slavery narrative: There were black slave owners, and there were white slaves. Furthermore, many black countries still practice slavery.
Charles Szabo
Thanks
mingoo007
I think your synopsis is superb. Evaluating these songs, in the context of the time, rather then hiding them, is the best thing to do.
Alahna Wigfall
Here from โThemโ
_เฆจเฆพเฆฎเฆนเงเฆจ
Traumatic
coocru
@t That's not a lady. She's not fit to be a human. Much so a "lady". I quit watching after that episode.
Em Em
@Mphasis X all the times๐๐๐