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The song is one of Stephen Foster's best-known songs, [16] and it also is one of the best-known American songs. [17] No American song had sold more than 5,000 copies before; "Oh! Susanna" sold over 100,000. [18] After its publication, it quickly became known as an "unofficial theme of the Forty-Niners", [16] with new lyrics about traveling to ...
A&W (song) Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway; Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round; Alberta (blues) All About You (Hilary Duff song) All God's Chillun Got Wings (song) All My Trials; All the Pretty Little Horses; All-American Bitch; Amen (gospel song) American Life (song) Animal Fair (song) Apples and Bananas; Arcadia (Lana Del Rey song) The ...
Prospectors during the California Gold Rush "Joe Bowers", sometimes called "Old Joe Bowers", is an American folk song that originated in the 1850s. Its lyrics detail the protagonist, Joe Bowers, traveling to California from Pike County, Missouri in order to finance a home for his bride-to-be, Sally Black, though she eventually marries another man.
Old American Songs are two sets of songs arranged by Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1952 respectively, after research in the Sheet Music Collection of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, in the John Hay Library at Brown University. [1] Originally scored for voice and piano, they were reworked for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and ...
Jo Stafford on American Folk Songs (Corinthian, 1950) [24] Paul Clayton on Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick (Allmusic, 1956) [25] Pete Seeger on American Favorite Ballads, Volume 1 (Smithsonian Folkways, 1958) [25] Bob Dylan on Down in the Groove (1988) [25] Keith Jarrett on The Melody at Night, with You (1998) [26]
Strummin' on the old banjo! Singin' fee, fie, fiddly-i-o Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o-o-o-o Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o Strummin' on the old banjo. The 1894 version includes one verse very much like the modern song, though in Minstrel dialect, with an intro that is no longer sung and a very different second verse: [5] [6] (SOLO) I once did know a girl named ...
"Old Aunt Jemima" is an American folk song written by comedian, songwriter, and minstrel show performer Billy Kersands (circa 1842–1915). The song became the inspiration for the Aunt Jemima brand of pancakes, as well as several characters in film, television, and on radio, named "Aunt Jemima".
The song was popular among old-time musicians of the Cumberlands before being widely adopted in the bluegrass repertoire. [4] Many variants of "Shady Grove" exist (up to 300 stanzas by the early 21st century). [5] The lyrics describes "the true love of a young man's life and his hope they will wed," [6] and it is sometimes identified as a ...