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Pages in category "Great Depression songs" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The song became best known through recordings by Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallée that were released in late 1932. The song received positive reviews and was one of the most popular songs of 1932. As one of the few popular songs during the era to discuss the darker aspects of the collapse, it came to be viewed as an anthem of the Great Depression.
The second influential book about African-American spirituals was the 1872 collection Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, by Thomas F. Steward, comprising songs sung by students of Fisk University on their fund-raising tours throughout the county, arranged and harmonized according to 19th-century classical music ...
Dust Bowl Ballads chronicles the 1930s Dust Bowl era during The Great Depression, where farmers were dispossessed of their land by a combination of weather conditions and bank foreclosures. The album is semi-autobiographical, mirroring both Guthrie’s own life and John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath , which had just been turned ...
Great Depression songs (19 P) Great Depression television series (2 C, 11 P) Great Depression video games (3 P) M. Musicals about the Great Depression (8 P) T.
Later covers of the song used other price combinations.) is an American song of the late 1920s, which was published in 1928 by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer. [1] The song details the economic situation as the Great Depression approached, when the price of cotton fell so low that farming became increasingly unviable economically and inflation had ...
Pages in category "Songs about depression" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression.