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Additionally, Woody Guthrie wrote or co-wrote two state folk songs – "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" (Washington) and "Oklahoma Hills" (Oklahoma) – but they have separate status from the official state songs of both states. New Mexico has two state songs in Spanish: "Así Es Nuevo México" is the official Spanish state song, while "New Mexico ...
He wrote a song called "It's New Jersey", which he unsuccessfully promoted for acceptance as the official state song. [9] In 2003, New Jersey State Senators James Cafiero and Stephen M. Sweeney , both from South Jersey , introduced legislation that would make Morley's song "It's New Jersey" one of six official state songs.
"Ma Normandie" was the official regional anthem of the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, and was written and composed by Frédéric Bérat. Jersey is historically part of the Duchy of Normandy , and French has been for centuries an official administrative language of Jersey, whose inhabitants have ...
“The Boss” is from Long Branch, New Jersey, and politicians from both parties have played his song at rallies and events too many times to count — despite its more subversive lyrics. New ...
The Folk and Bluegrass scene in New Jersey consists of performances at festivals and small venues throughout the state, mostly in small cities and college towns with more active music scenes. Some of these towns and cities are Montclair, Hoboken, New Brunswick, and Princeton. There is little information about early folk music in New Jersey.
These are songs of summer, and ones you want to hear as you start your adventure to the Jersey Shore. But the best music is collaboration. Send us your favorites so we can add to the list.
Comedian Cozy Morley, who owned Club Avalon, a nightclub in North Wildwood from 1958-89 and where a life-size statue of him now stands in front of the site of the club (which was demolished in 1989 and is now Westy's Irish Pub), made "On the Way to Cape May" his signature song and performed it many times during his acts in the Philadelphia and South Jersey areas.
In 1873, on the night of a performance in Metuchen, New Jersey, Colburn approached his fellow student Howard Newton Fuller (1853– ), to compose a tune and some lyrics that the club could use as an official school song, or alma mater. Fuller wrote the lyrics in two hours setting them to the tune of a popular melody On the Banks of the Old Dundee.