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The song was first performed by the vaudeville singer Rex Weber as part of the musical Americana, [3] [5] which ran from October to December 1932 and was not a success. Three weeks after Americana opened, the song was covered by crooner Bing Crosby for Brunswick Records; it was also covered by Rudy Vallee shortly thereafter for Columbia Records ...
The song is a salute to small-town America and a celebration of its values and camaraderie. Various observations – elderly men playing checkers, children playing hopscotch and teenagers going on a date at a local soda fountain – are observed first-person style from a traveling performer, whose vehicle had pulled off of a four-lane highway for a short break.
The origins of Americana music can be traced back to the early 20th century, when rural American musicians began incorporating elements of folk, blues, and country music into their songs. [4] Americana musicians often played acoustic instruments such as the guitar , banjo , fiddle , and upright bass , and their songs typically told stories ...
The American Epic Sessions is a documentary film in which an engineer restores the long-lost first electrical sound recording system on which the 1920s field recording sessions were made, and twenty contemporary artists pay tribute to the momentous machine by attempting to record songs on it for the first time in 80 years.
Americana received strongly polarized reviews from music critics. It holds an average score of 68 out of 100 at Metacritic, based on 31 reviews. [20] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune gave the album three-and-a-half out of four stars, writing that "Americana reveals the hard truth inside songs that have been taken for granted."
The film is titled after "Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince", a 2019 song by Swift. The film has been described as an unvarnished and emotionally revealing look at Swift, during a metamorphic phase in her life, as she learns to accept her role as not only a singer-songwriter and entertainer, but as an influential woman "harnessing the full ...
The last song Peek recorded was "Kiss Me on the Waves" (2011) with the Spanish band Etcetera, as guest singer. The song was written by Guillermo Albelo and included in the album Steps on the Water . Continuous speculations of Peek reuniting with America finally came to an end when Peek died in his home in Farmington, Missouri, of fibrinous ...
Americana is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Offspring, released on November 17, 1998, by Columbia Records. Following a worldwide tour in support of Ixnay on the Hombre (1997), the band commenced work on a new album in July 1998.