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"De Camptown Races" or "Gwine to Run All Night" (nowadays popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a folk song by American Romantic composer Stephen Foster. It was published in February 1850 by F. D. Benteen and was introduced to the American mainstream by Christy's Minstrels , eventually becoming one of the most popular folk/ Americana tunes of ...
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The music of Stephen Foster was an early influence on the Australian composer Percy Grainger, who stated that hearing "Camptown Races" sung by his mother was one of his earliest musical recollections. He went on to write a piece entitled "Tribute to Foster", a composition for mixed choir, orchestra, and pitched wine glasses based on the melody ...
Millets Music Saloon "We Are Coming Father Abraham, 300,000 More" 1862: S. T. Gordon: James Sloane Gibbons "We Will Keep a Bright Lookout" 1863: Horace Waters: George Cooper "We'll All Meet Our Saviour" 1863: Horace Waters "We'll Still Keep Marching On" 1863: Horace Waters: Mary Ann Kidder "We'll Tune Our Hearts" 1863: Horace Waters "We've a ...
Conductor Andre Kostelanetz commissioned Copland to write a musical portrait of an "eminent American" for the New York Philharmonic.Copland chose President Abraham Lincoln, and used material from speeches and letters of Lincoln, as well as original folk songs of the period, including "Camptown Races" and "On Springfield Mountain". [1]
By the time of this cartoon's release, the Stephen Foster song "Camptown Races" has been established as Foghorn Leghorn's theme; in other cartoons Foghorn normally hums the verse, but in this cartoon he sings specially-written lyrics about fishing.
It is the first Foghorn Leghorn cartoon featuring Stephen Foster's "Camptown Races", a song that would be featured in every Foghorn Leghorn cartoon following this with the exceptions of A Fractured Leghorn, Of Rice and Hen and Banty Raids. When shown on Boomerang USA, this short plays in PAL audio.
At the time the song was written there was an actual Camptown horse race, that went from Camptown to nearby Wyalusing, which is almost exactly 5 miles (measured from what most would call the town centers) following a creek bed that is usually either dry or little more than a mud hole the week after Labor day, when the race is held.