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"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River .
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The Riviera Theatre is a historic, 1140 seat entertainment venue in North Tonawanda, New York.The theatre hosts live concerts, theatre, dance shows, and movies. The Riviera's “Mighty Wurlitzer” theatre organ has been restored, is maintained by volunteers, and is famed as being one of two original Wurlitzer demonstrator organs, which the company would use to show off to potential clients in ...
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“Ol’ Man River”, recorded by Bing Crosby on December 31, 1945 with Camarata and His Orchestra. [ 1 ] ““I Still Suits Me”, recorded by Bing Crosby and Lee Wiley on March 17, 1947 with Victor Young and His Orchestra.
The name Tonawanda (Te-ni-wun-da) [4] or (Ta-na-wan-deh ') [5] derives from the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) language meaning swift water.[4]Tonawanda Creek flows through the ancient lake bed of Glacial Lake Tonawanda, a prehistoric lake that existed approximately 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age; many of the swamp lands surrounding Tonawanda Creek also date back to this lake.
The Appalachian String Band Music Festival (often referred to simply as "Clifftop") is a weeklong gathering of thousands of string band musicians and their friends from across the country and around the world, who each year since 1990 have assembled near the New River Gorge in West Virginia in late July/early August to celebrate the evolving tradition of old-time music and the community of ...
Old Man River may refer to: A personification of the Mississippi River in the United States; Old Man River (musician) (born 1979), Israeli singer-songwriter "Ol' Man River", a 1927 song from the musical Show Boat "Old Man River (I've Come to Talk Again)", a song by Reba McEntire on the 1982 album Unlimited