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Daar kom die Alibama" (in English: "There comes the Alibama") is a traditional Afrikaans song [1] and Cape jazz song. [2] According to some sources, the song's history dates back to about 1863, and it originally referred to the warship, the CSS Alabama. [3] [4] The English name, Alabama, was respelt in the Cape Dutch vernacular to Alibama.
"Lady Down on Love" is a song about divorce – told first from her side and, in the second verse, his side.. Songwriter Randy Owen recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for the song came about when, during a performance at a hotel nightclub in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he learned that a group of women were celebrating a friend's divorce with a night out on the town.
"Deep River Woman" is a song written by American R&B artist Lionel Richie and recorded by Richie with American country music band Alabama. It was released in November 1986 as the fourth single from Richie's album Dancing on the Ceiling as double A-side with "Ballerina Girl".
This is a list of songs written about the U.S. state of Alabama or notable locations in the state: "Ala freakin Bama [ 1 ] " by Trace Adkins "Alabam [ 2 ] " by Cowboy Copas
"Alabama" was written as a poem by Julia Tutwiler, a distinguished educator and humanitarian.It was first sung to an Austrian air, but in 1931, the music written by Edna Gockel Gussen, an organist, and choirmaster from Birmingham, Alabama, was adopted by the State Federation of Music Clubs and through their efforts, House Joint Resolution 74 was adopted March 9, 1931.
The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song [clarification needed] written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny.
The gunman convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man in Georgia, repeatedly used racist language in text messages with friends, and also shared a music video of a white supremacist singer ...
A State Senate bill (SR-458) was passed 32-1 in 2000 to make the song the official State Ballad, with "Stars Fell On Alabama", a 1934 song (whose most popular release was by Jimmy Buffett) becoming the new official State Song, and the current State Song, "Alabama", written in 1931 by Julia Tutwiler would be moved to State Anthem status, but the ...