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"Shortnin' Bread" (also spelled "Shortenin' Bread", "Short'nin' Bread", or "Sho'tnin' Bread") is an American folk song dating back at least to 1900, when James Whitcomb Riley published it as a poem. While there is speculation that Riley may have based his poem on an earlier African-American plantation song, [ 1 ] no definitive evidence of such ...
The most common version of the song has a similar tune to the Austrian folk song "Wie Böhmen noch bei Öst'rreich war" and the American folk song Hush, Little Baby. Alternative versions have similar tunes to the first verse of the 1890s folk song "Shortnin' Bread."
"Shortnin' Bread" "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" "Thumbelina" (Larry Groce) "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" "Red River Valley" "Skip to My Lou" "Swanee River" (Stephen Foster) Western Medley: "The Yellow Rose of Texas"/"Buffalo Gals" "London Bridge Is Falling Down" "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" "Frère Jacques" "The Dump Truck Song ...
He was on the album at the age of seventeen and he didn't know a lot about life and music, but he knew 8 chords and he recorded the song, Shortnin' Bread, and it became a hit. By the early 1960s, the group disbanded, leaving DiGregorio to find other gigs which included playing in a lounge band in Florida under the name of Little Joe and the ...
In the early days of 92-93, the song frequently featured a "Shortnin' Bread" interpolation towards the end of the song. After the summer of 1994, the last verse evolved beyond the mere repetition of "That's my blood down there". Starting in 1995, a stop-time intro began to occasionally be played during full-band versions. In 1999, fans from the ...
"The Maine Stein Song" Al Eugster Bill Hudson Robert Connavale February 17, 1950 Short'nin' Bread: Baked Goods "Shortenin' Bread" I. Sparber Larz Bourne Larry Riley Myron Waldman Gordon Whittier Anton Loeb March 24, 1950 Win, Place and Show Boat: Mississippi Riverboat "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" Al Eugster Wm. B. Pattengill Robert Connavale ...
James Whitcomb Riley was born on October 7, 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Indiana, the third of the six children of Reuben Andrew and Elizabeth Marine Riley.Riley's grandparents came from Ireland to Pennsylvania before moving to the Midwest [1] [2] [n 1] Riley's father was an attorney, and in the year before his birth, he was elected a member of the Indiana House of Representatives as a ...
Donald Duck is cooking pancakes in his kitchen, singing "Shortnin' Bread", when two chipmunks, Chip 'n' Dale, get wind of the smell wafting through their home in the stovepipe while eating acorns. Once inside, they steal a few of Donald's pancakes by throwing a fork tied to a piece of string, but Donald soon discovers the chipmunks, and puts ...