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Swanee" is an American popular song from 1919 composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Irving Caesar. It is most often associated with singer Al Jolson . The song was written for a New York City revue called Demi-Tasse , which opened in October 1919 at the Capitol Theater.
Swanee River is a 1939 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart.It is a biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, Yiddish: אַסאַ יואלסאָן; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, [2] and was self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". [3]
The song's popularity re-surged in 1934 with the release of a close harmony cover by the Boswell Sisters, [15] and a 1938 musical film of the same name starring Tyrone Power and Alice Faye. [16] A variety of artists covered the song such as Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, and others. [17]
Swanee River may refer to: Old Folks at Home, an 1851 song often known unofficially as "Swanee River", written by Stephen Foster; Swanee River, an ...
Like many of Foster's songs, it was originally recorded on the phonograph in the early twentieth century; [20] 1911 saw its first recording, by Billy Murray, originally sung with the American Quartet. [21] The 1939 biopic about Foster Swanee River prominently features a performance of the tune by Al Jolson.
Suwannee River, re-spelled "Swanee" by Stephen Foster to fit the rhythm in "Old Folks at Home", influencing subsequent uses of the word, such as: "Swanee" (song), a song by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, made popular by Al Jolson; Slide whistle, also called a swanee whistle; Swanee, a soft drink made by the defunct Bob's-Cola company
The Suwanee (given as "Swanee") is the locale of the protagonist's longed-for home in two famous songs: Steven Fosters 1851 "Old Folks at Home", which is commonly called by its first line ("Way down upon the Swanee River") or just "Swanee River", [13] and George Gershwin's 1919 song "Swanee" (partly inspired by Foster's song) [14] made a #1 hit ...