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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 .
The film includes two versions of "Ol' Man River": the first sung by Caleb Peterson and an African-American chorus as part of the Show Boat medley, and the second, a "crooner version" by Frank Sinatra, featured as the grand finale. Barbette consulted on the creation of the film's circus sequence. [6]
Ol' Man River: 1944, 1963: Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern: Old Devil Moon: 1956, 1963: Yip Harburg, Burton Lane: An Old Fashioned Christmas: 1964: Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen: The Old Master Painter: 1949: Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith: Old School Teacher: 1945: Willard Robison: The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New ...
According to his son, Frank Jr., King sat weeping in the audience at one of his father's concerts in 1963 as Sinatra sang "Ol' Man River," a song from the musical Show Boat that is sung by a black American stevedore. [563] When he changed his political affiliations in 1970, Sinatra became less outspoken on racial issues. [327]
'In the Whale,' the story of Provincetown lobster diver Michael Packard's life and his 30 seconds in a humpback's mouth, continues to sell out shows.
Watertown (subtitled A Love Story) is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1970 through Reprise Records. It is a concept album centered on a man from Watertown, New York. In a series of soliloquies, the nameless narrator tells his heartbreaking story of personal loss: his wife has left him and their two boys for ...
Whale, that’s something you don’t see every day. A humpback made a shocking splash beneath the Brooklyn Bridge Monday — marking the species’ first visit to the East River in two years ...
The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings is a 1993 box set album by American singer Frank Sinatra. This twelve-disc set contains 285 songs Sinatra recorded during his nine-year career with Columbia Records.