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American composer George Whitefield Chadwick wrote a concert overture titled Rip Van Winkle in 1879, when he was a student in Leipzig. American Doom metal band Witch performs a song titled "Rip Van Winkle" detailing the story in song form. American Doo-wop band The Devotions released their novelty single "Rip Van Winkle" in 1961 on Delta Records.
The first installment, containing "Rip Van Winkle", was an enormous success, and the rest of the work was equally successful; it was issued in 1819–1820 in seven installments in New York and in two volumes in London ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" appeared in the sixth issue of the New York edition and the second volume of the London edition ...
Joseph Jefferson made several recordings, all of material from Rip Van Winkle. [citation needed] Jefferson essentially created no new character after 1865, except for minor parts. He was known as a one-part actor. The public never wearied of his one masterpiece. Francis Wilson wrote in 1906, "He was Rip and Rip was he."
Stage actor Joseph Jefferson arrived in Palm Beach in 1905. Here, he rubbed elbows with Henry Flagler, strolled avenues and built a kindly reputation.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", both of which were immediately acknowledged as The Sketch Book's finest pieces, American and English readers alike responded most strongly to the more sentimental tales, especially "The Broken Heart", – which Byron claimed had made him weep [23] – and "The Widow and Her Son".
The Joseph Jefferson House, also known as the Rip Van Winkle House and Gardens, the Live Oak Gardens, and the Bob Acres Plantation, is a historic house built in 1870 on Jefferson Island in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The Joseph Jefferson House was built in 1870 for Joseph Jefferson, an American stage and silent film actor.
The Devotions are an American doo-wop group. [1] Their single of a novelty song called "Rip Van Winkle" was released in 1961 on Delta Records; the tune was re-released on Roulette Records in 1962 and again on Roulette in 1963. [2]
Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle. [1]