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"Pennsylvania Polka" is a polka song written in the United States in 1942. [1] The song was written by Lester Lee and Zeke Manners, and published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. It became an almost immediate hit for The Andrews Sisters. [2] Frankie Yankovic also made a successful recording of the "Pennsylvania Polka". [3]
The song was revived on a number of occasions in the twentieth century with recordings by Bing Crosby (recorded December 9, 1940), [26] Johnny Mercer (1945), [27] Al Jolson (recorded July 17, 1950), [28] Julie London (included in her album Swing Me an Old Song, 1959), and Frankie Laine (included in his album Deuces Wild, 1961). [29]
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and published under the pseudonym "A Farmer" from 1767 to 1768. The twelve letters were widely read and reprinted throughout the Thirteen Colonies , and were important in uniting the colonists against the ...
Lee Greenwood will celebrate the 40th anniversary of his iconic anthem “God Bless the USA” – a love letter to the country – and at 81 years old, he has no plans to slow down.
The song was written and composed by former prison administrator Eddie Khoury [1] and Ronnie Bonner, and serves as the official state song for all public purposes. State Representative Frank L. Oliver introduced the bill for the song, and it was adopted by the Pennsylvanian General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Robert P. Casey on November 29, 1990.
The song was written during the Iraq War, a conflict JD Vance served in but has also criticized. “When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of ...
Allentown, Pennsylvania, for which the song is named. The song's theme centers around the resilience of Allentown, Pennsylvania and the surrounding Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania in the 1980s as it coped with the decline of its historically strong manufacturing sector and its emergence as a part of the Rust Belt in the latter part of the 20th century, including the depressed ...
"President Biden got it absolutely wrong and created a lot of pain here in Northeastern Pennsylvania," Gov. Josh Shapiro said after President Joe Biden's commutation of a judge in Pennsylvania's ...