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The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine were a group of 19th-century lumberjacks who exhibited a rare disorder of unknown origin. [1] The syndrome entails an exaggerated startle reflex [2] which may be described as an uncontrollable "jump." Individuals with this condition could exhibit sudden movements in all parts of the body.
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The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
Timberjack is a 1955 American Trucolor lumberjack Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou, Hoagy Carmichael and Chill Wills. [1] With a very high number of musical sections (including one by Hoagy Carmichael ) it approaches a musical in format.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "19th-century songs" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total.
The song is set to the tune of Where the Silvery Colorado Wends Its Way, by J. Aldrich Libbey. [3] Far within the forest scene, Where the trees forever green, Form a contrast to the beech and birches grey, Where the snow lies white and deep, And the song birds seem to sleep, And cease their sweetest singing all the day. Where the mighty ...
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
Industrial folk music, industrial folk song, industrial work song or working song is a subgenre of folk or traditional music that developed from the 18th century, particularly in Britain and North America, with songs dealing with the lives and experiences of industrial workers.