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America, I Hear You Singing is an album recorded and released in 1964 by American singers Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, backed by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. [2] The album is a collection of patriotic songs, recorded as a tribute to the assassinated president John F. Kennedy.
The American composer Charles Naginski wrote the music to "Richard Cory", published 1940, included in Thomas Hampson's Album "I hear America singing" from 2001. The poem was adapted by the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel for their song "Richard Cory". The Simon & Garfunkel version of the song's ending differs from the poem in that the speaker still ...
John Wesley Work Jr. (1871–1925)—also known as John Work II—spent three decades at the historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, Fisk University, collecting and promulgating the "jubilee songcraft" of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers—an African-American a cappella Fisk University student chorus (1871–1878), [8] known for introducing a wider audience to spirituals.
I Hear America Singing, cantata, text by Walt Whitman, [2] Kleinsinger's first work to be recorded in 1941, sung by John Charles Thomas, the ILGWU Radio Chorus, and the Victor Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret. [18] [19] Victory Against Heaven (1941), one-act opera. Libretto by Winthrop Bushnell.
I Hear America Singing: American Music Theatre: Dir: George Mallonee Chor: Jean Whittaker Arr: Lloyd Wells M.Dir: Joe Jerles 1982– I Hear America Singing: Roy Acuff Theatre: Dir: George Mallonee Chor: Jean Whittaker Arr: Lloyd Wells M.Dir: Joe Jerles 1977–1981: For Me And My Gal: Gaslight Theatre: Dir: Phil Padgett and George Mallonee Chor ...
Bob Gibson 5/91 – I Hear America Singing (Snapshot Music, 1991) CS; Stops Along the Way (B*G Records, 1991) CS; Gibson & Camp, The Gate of Horn – Revisited! (Folk Era Productions, 1994) CD; Makin' a Mess, Bob Gibson Sings Shel Silverstein (Asylum Records, 1995) CD; Joy, Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson (Riverside, 1996) CD
Clement closed his address to the industry leaders with a conflation of personal taste, country music, and American identity, claiming, “I love country music because when I hear it, I hear ...
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed,— I, too, am America.