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1956 The Honeymooners – In the episode, "The $99,000 Answer" (#1.19), Ed Norton has a strange habit that before he can play any song he always plays a few notes of "Old Folks at Home"/"Swanee River" to warm up. 1961 The Alvin Show - sung by Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally from the album Sing Again with The Chipmunks.
Swanee River may refer to: Old Folks at Home , an 1851 song often known unofficially as "Swanee River", written by Stephen Foster Swanee River (1931 film) , an American film
The Suwanee (given as "Swanee") is the locale of the protagonist's longed-for home in two famous songs: Steven Fosters 1851 "Old Folks at Home", which is commonly called by its first line ("Way down upon the Swanee River") or just "Swanee River", [13] and George Gershwin's 1919 song "Swanee" (partly inspired by Foster's song) [14] made a #1 hit ...
Swanee" is an American popular song written in 1919 by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is most often associated with singer Al Jolson . The song was written for a New York City revue called Demi-Tasse , which opened in October 1919 at the Capitol Theater.
Suwannee River, re-spelled "Swanee" by Stephen Foster to fit the rhythm in "Old Folks at Home", influencing subsequent uses of the word, such as: "Swanee" (song), a song by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, made popular by Al Jolson; Slide whistle, also called a swanee whistle; Swanee, a soft drink made by the defunct Bob's-Cola company
Swanee River is a 1939 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart.It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
Song 2003 Esopus Magazine Number 1 Public Domain "Home on the Range" (trad.) 2006 Awful Bliss Records: Songs For Another Place "One of My Turns" (Pink Floyd) 2009 Live at KEXP Vol.5 "Wolves" (solo, live) 2009 Splice Today: The Old Lonesome Sound "Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)"(Stephen Foster) 2009 St. Ives Records: It Happened Here
This is George Gershwin's first hit, and, I believe, the only major song of Gershwin's in the public domain. Better still, this is the recording that popularised it and made it a hit, which is also out of copyright.