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The song was first publicly performed on February 6, the play's opening night, at Herald Square Theater in New York City. "You're a Grand Old Flag" quickly became the first song from a musical to sell over a million copies of sheet music. [1] The title and first lyric comes from someone Cohan once met; the Library of Congress website notes ...
April 18: 1906 San Francisco earthquake. April 5 – The Maryland General Assembly authorises the erection of the Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Baltimore . April 14 – The first service is held at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles by W. J. Seymour, in a series later known as the Azusa Street Revival , an event which ...
On April 9, 1906, after five weeks of Seymour's preaching and prayer, and three days into an intended 10-day fast, [15] Edward S. Lee spoke in tongues for the first time. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] At the next meeting, Seymour shared Lee's testimony and preached a sermon on Acts 2 :4 and soon six others began to speak in tongues as well, [ 10 ] [ 17 ...
Arthur Farwell publishes Folk-Songs of the West and South, a collection of songs that include "The Lone Prairee", which Farwell called the first cowboy song to be printed, both words and music". [206] Robert Motts founds the first permanent black theater, in Chicago, the Pekin Theatre. [207]
The following day he records Dean Robinson singing songs including "As I Walked Out One May Morning" and versions of "Turpin Hero" and "Seventeen Come Sunday". [16] August 23 – Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E Minor receives its first performance at a Promenade Concert in London. The work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, it is based on Norfolk folk tunes ...
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
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"America the Beautiful" is a patriotic American song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, [1] though the two never met. [2] Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled "Pikes Peak".