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"An American Trilogy" is a 1972 song medley arranged by country composer Mickey Newbury and popularized by Elvis Presley, who included it as a showstopper in his concert routines. The medley uses three 19th-century songs: "Dixie" — a popular folk song about the southern United States.
One significant aspect of their production is the inclusion of sound effects to link the songs, which gave the LPs a conceptual feel and would become a Newbury trademark. His next album, Frisco Mabel Joy, includes his most famous song, "An American Trilogy," later made famous by Elvis Presley.
'Frisco Mabel Joy is a 1971 studio album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. This was the second of three albums Newbury recorded at Cinderella Sound.The album includes the original version of "An American Trilogy", which Elvis Presley later performed in his Las Vegas shows with much success.
An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River is a 2009 non-fiction work by Steven M. Wise about the pig industry in North Carolina. Wise is an American legal scholar who specializes in animal protection .
The song added a new term to the American lexicon: "Whistling 'Dixie'" is a slang expression meaning "[engaging] ... Mickey Newbury's "An American Trilogy" ...
"The Lehman Trilogy,' which dramatizes the rise and fall of a banking giant, arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre fresh from its heralded Broadway run. A stunningly staged 'Lehman Trilogy' critiques ...
It is the first in Roth's American Trilogy, followed by I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2000). The framing device in American Pastoral is a 45th high school reunion attended by frequent Roth alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, who is the narrator. At the reunion, in 1995, Zuckerman meets former classmate Jerry Levov who describes to ...
EXCLUSIVE: When I meet five-time Oscar winner Francis Coppola at his home high atop the mountains above his spacious Inglenook vineyard, you can feel ambition animating his every step. No, not for ...