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While nothing else that she put out had the same success as "Down Yonder", her offerings over the next decade were frequent and consistent. Wood gained the title, Queen of the Ragtime Pianists, [1] sometimes shared with junior fellow plunker Jo Ann Castle. She was also divorced from her stage-namesake, Carson Hazelwood, during this period, but ...
Down Yonder is a popular American song with music and lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert. It was first published in 1921, and was introduced in the same year at the Orpheum Theater, New Orleans. [1] Gilbert had written the lyrics for the 1912 song "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" (for which Lewis F. Muir wrote the music). In "Down Yonder," Gilbert ...
Born in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1894, he was the son of John Turner Layton, "a bass singer, music educator and hymn composer." [2] After receiving a musical education from his father, he attended the Howard University Dental School, later coming to New York City in the early 1900s, where he met future songwriting partner, lyricist Henry Creamer. [3]
Way down yonder in the Indian nation I rode my pony on the reservation In the Oklahoma Hills where I was born Way down yonder in the Indian nation A cowboy’s life is my occupation In the Oklahoma Hills where I was born
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans became a hit again in 1959 when the rocked up recording by Freddy Cannon sold a million copies. [4] Success on Broadway arrived in 1922 when Creamer’s Creole Production Company produced the show Strut Miss Lizzie, and in 1923 to seal their success, Bessie Smith recorded their song "Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time".
They had diminishing success, but in 1922 made the first recording of "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", later a rock and roll hit song. [3] After that line-up disbanded in 1925, Burr formed a new version of the Peerless Quartet, with himself, Carl Mathieu, Stanley Baughman and James Stanley. [5] The line-up made a film at that time with Pathé ...
It was released in May 1993 as the third single from his album A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love). The album is named for a line in the song itself. Jackson wrote the song with Jim McBride. It is one of Jackson's most popular and well-known songs, being included on his 2015 box set Genuine: The Alan Jackson Story.
"Down in New Orleans" by The Vibrations "Down in Old New Orleans" by Mickey Jupp "Down In Storyville" by Rahmlee "Down in the Quarter" by Paul Soniat "Down On Second Street" by Zachary Richard "Down on the Border" by Little River Band "Down South in New Orleans" by Doug Kershaw, The Band "Down The Dustpipe" by Status Quo (band)