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1894; 130 years ago (1894) Songwriter (s) Traditional. "I've Been Working on the Railroad" is an American folk song. The first published version appeared as "Levee Song" in Carmina Princetonia, a book of Princeton University songs published in 1894. [1] The earliest known recording is by The Shannon Quartet, released by Victor Records in 1923.
During the early 1990s, the Haddad Riverfront Park in Charleston, West Virginia was constructed as a gift from Fred Haddad. The new park removed riverfront parking to make way for a stage and seating for live performances and other events. The park transformed the levee into a local attraction. [7]
Kansas Joe McCoy. Memphis Minnie. " When the Levee Breaks " is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences during the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. "When the Levee Breaks" was re-worked by English rock group Led Zeppelin as the last song ...
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana following the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina. It was filmed in late August and early September 2005, and premiered at the New Orleans Arena on August 16, 2006 and was first aired on HBO ...
Joumana Haddad (Arabic: جمانة حداد; née Salloum; born December 6, 1970, in Beirut) is a Lebanese author, public speaker, journalist and human rights activist. [1] She has been selected as one of the world’s 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business Magazine for her cultural and social activism. [ 2 ]
Yoseph Haddad is an Arab-Israeli Orthodox Christian, [6] who was born in Haifa, Israel. His mother was a teacher and his father was a priest, businessman and civil aviator. [7] Later the family moved to Nazareth, Israel, where he attended the Don Bosco Technological High School named after Giovanni Bosco. In 2003, he volunteered for the IDF and ...
William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 – January 21, 1942) was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger ...
Songwriter (s) Bob Dylan. "Down in the Flood" is a song by Bob Dylan, originally recorded by Dylan in 1967 with the Band, and copyrighted that autumn. On some albums, it is listed as "Crash on the Levee", an alternate title. One of the 1967 recordings was released on the 1975 album The Basement Tapes and re-released in 2014 on The Bootleg ...