"in 1929. He wrote the song Swanee Rhapsody in 1930. He returned to the subject in 1962 with Swanee Lullaby. In the 1970's mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani performed Foster's parlor ballads. Thomas Hampson released a CD of Stephen Foster songs in 1992. Mark Morris said ""I like those songs and will defend them,But it's complicated, because some people think Huckleberry Finn is horrifyingly racist, and I don't. What is better than Way Down upon the Swanee River? We all know it, and we're horrified to sing it."" Swanee songs The song ""Old Folks at Home"" was written in 1851 by Stephen"
"family. Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of ""You Go to My Head"", ""Honey"", ""By the Sycamore Tree"", ""That Lucky Old Sun"", ""Breezin' Along With The Breeze"", ""Right or Wrong,"" ""Beautiful Love"", ""Drifting and Dreaming"", and ""Louisiana Fairy Tale""(Fats Waller's recording of which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of ""This Old House""), each song in collaboration with other people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King,"
"Haven Gillespie James Lamont Gillespie (February 6, 1888 – March 14, 1975) pen name Haven Gillespie, was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of ""You Go to My Head"", ""Honey"", ""By the Sycamore Tree"", ""That Lucky Old Sun"", ""Breezin' Along With The Breeze"", ""Right or Wrong,"" ""Beautiful Love"", ""Drifting and Dreaming"", and ""Louisiana Fairy Tale""(Fats Waller's recording of which was used as the first theme song in the PBS Production of ""This Old House""), each song in collaboration with other people such as Beasley Smith, Ervin R. Schmidt, Richard A. Whiting, Wayne King, and"
"Old Folks (1938 song) Old Folks is a 1938 popular song and jazz standard composed by Willard Robison with lyrics by Dedette Lee Hill, the wife and occasional colleague of Billy Hill. The lyrics tell of an old man nicknamed ""Old Folks"" and reference his service in the American Civil War, his habit of smoking with a ""yellow cob pipe"", and the prospect of his death. A 1938 version by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra and vocalist Bea Wain charted at No. 4; around this time it was also recorded by Mildred Bailey and Bing Crosby and performed on radio"
"Old Folks (Ronnie Milsap and Mike Reid song) ""Old Folks"" is a song recorded by American country music artists Ronnie Milsap and Mike Reid, the latter of whom wrote the song. It was released in March 1988 as the third single from the album ""Heart & Soul"". The song reached number 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song pays homage to two elderly people: a gentleman who, despite being 80 years old still works daily and is still bitter over the Brooklyn Dodgers' franchise move to Los Angeles; and a grandmother who maintains a sweet"
"The Old House at Home ""The Old House at Home"" is a sentimental 19th century ballad written by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839). The lyrics are a two stanza poem about childhood and yearning for home: The song came to the public attention after being set to music by Edward Loder. It first appeared in Loder's 1838 opera ""Francis the First"". This was one of Loder's lesser operas, which were merely vehicles for his lucrative popular songs. A review of the opening night was less than complimentary; """"The few of the public who were present thought it the most stupid piece"
"by Benny Goodman and Fats Waller. It was recorded on saxophone by Don Byas in 1946 and saxophonist Ben Webster in 1951. Its most famous jazz version is by trumpeter Miles Davis on ""Someday My Prince Will Come"" (1961). Old Folks (1938 song) Old Folks is a 1938 popular song and jazz standard composed by Willard Robison with lyrics by Dedette Lee Hill, the wife and occasional colleague of Billy Hill. The lyrics tell of an old man nicknamed ""Old Folks"" and reference his service in the American Civil War, his habit of smoking with a ""yellow cob pipe"", and"
"Miner's Daughter"" and was sung by Beverly D'Angelo who was portraying Patsy Cline. Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson song) ""Sweet Dreams"" or ""Sweet Dreams (of You)"" is a country ballad, which was written by Don Gibson. Gibson originally recorded the song in 1955; his version hit the top ten of ""Billboard""'s country chart, but was eclipsed by the success of a competing version by Faron Young. In 1960, after Gibson had established himself as a country music superstar, he released a new version as a single. This version also charted in the top ten on the country chart and also crossed"
"I""<br> Disc 2 (18802): ""Beautiful Dreamer"" / ""Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair""<br> Disc 3 (18803): ""My Old Kentucky Home"" / ""De Camptown Races""<br> Disc 4 (18804): ""Old Folks at Home"" / ""Old Black Joe"" The same songs were issued on another 4-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-482 later in 1946, although the actual discs had different numbers. Disc 1 (25127): ""Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"" / ""Nell and I""<br> Disc 2 (25128): ""Beautiful Dreamer"" / ""Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair""<br> Disc 3 (25129): ""My Old Kentucky Home"" / ""De Camptown Races""<br> Disc 4 (25130):"
"Folk Songs (Berio) Folk Songs is a song cycle by the Italian composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. It consists of arrangements of folk music from various countries and other songs, forming ""a tribute to the extraordinary artistry"" of the American singer Cathy Berberian, a specialist in Berio's music. It is scored for voice, flute (doubling on piccolo), clarinet, harp, viola, cello, and percussion (two players). The composer arranged it for a large orchestra in 1973. Two of the songs in the cycle, ""La donna ideale"" and ""Ballo"", were composed in 1947 by Berio during his second year at the"
"Beautiful Loser (song) ""Beautiful Loser"" is a song written and recorded by American rock artist Bob Seger. It was the title track on his 1975 studio album ""Beautiful Loser"". The single just missed inclusion on the US Top 100, but became more widely known when it was included on Seger's breakout album, ""'Live' Bullet"" (1976), where it was paired with ""Travelin' Man"". The song is about people who set their goals high but never achieve anything. Seger got the idea for the song from a book of poems written by Leonard Cohen. Contrary to what many believed, the song is"
"Roger Hodgson Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson (born 21 March 1950) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the former co-frontman and founder member of progressive rock band Supertramp. Hodgson composed and sang the majority of the hits such as ""Dreamer"", ""Give a Little Bit"", ""Breakfast in America"", ""Take the Long Way Home"", ""The Logical Song"" and ""It's Raining Again"". Hodgson left Supertramp in 1983 and moved his family away from the Los Angeles music scene to live a simpler lifestyle close to nature and be home with his children as they were growing up. Hodgson returned to"
"Beautiful People (Chris Brown song) ""Beautiful People"" is a song by American singer Chris Brown featuring Italian DJ Benny Benassi, released as the third single from Brown's fourth studio album ""F.A.M.E."" on March 11, 2011. It was written by Brown, with Benny Benassi and Alle Benassi handling its production. Musically, ""Beautiful People"" is an uptempo song which draws from the genres of electro house, dancehall and Europop, and contains influences of R&B. The song's lyrics revolve around Brown encouraging ""everyone on the dance floor to keep their heads up and discover the beauty inside."" In the United States, the song"
"Benjamin Hanby Benjamin Russell Hanby (July 22, 1833 – March 16, 1867), also given as Benjamin Russel Hanby, was an American composer, educator, and pastor who wrote approximately 80 songs. The most famous are ""Darling Nelly Gray"", the Christmas songs ""Up on the House Top"", ""Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"", and the hymn ""Who Is He In Yonder Stall?"". Hanby was born in Rushville, Ohio. He moved to Westerville, Ohio in 1849, at the age of sixteen, to enroll at Otterbein University. He was involved in the Underground Railroad with his father, Bishop William Hanby. Hanby composed ""Darling Nelly Gray"" in"
"Willard Robison Willard Robison (September 18, 1894 – June 24, 1968) was an American vocalist, pianist, and composer of popular songs, born in Shelbina, Missouri. His songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana and their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael. Many of his compositions, notably ""A Cottage for Sale"", ""Round My Old Deserted Farm"", ""Don't Smoke in Bed"", ""'Taint So, Honey, 'Taint So"" and ""Old Folks"", have become standards and have been recorded countless times by jazz and pop artists including Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Bing Crosby and Mildred Bailey."
"""Old Folks at Home"" / ""Old Black Joe"" The same songs were issued on a Decca 10"" album DL 5010 in 1949. Bing Crosby – Stephen Foster Bing Crosby – Stephen Foster is a compilation album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby of songs by Stephen Foster released in 1946. Bing Crosby had enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1940s with his discography showing six No. 1 hits in 1944 alone. His films such as ""Going My Way"" and ""The Bells of St. Mary's"" were huge successes as were the ""Road"" films he made with Bob Hope. On radio, his ""Kraft"
"bright coming morn. Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart, Even as the morn on the streamlet and sea; Then will all clouds of sorrow depart, Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me! Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me! </poem> The song has been recorded by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra (March 22, 1940); The Nutmegs; Steve Conway with Jack Byfield & his Orchestra; Thomas Hampson with Jay Ungar (mandolin), David Alpher (piano), and Molly Mason (guitar); John Leyton (with revised lyrics by Ken Lewis and John Carter); Jerry Lee Lewis; Slim Whitman; and Roy Orbison on the album ""In"
"Beautiful Dreams Beautiful Dreams is singer/songwriter Chris de Burgh's twelfth original album, released in 1995. It is a collection of his older songs re-recorded with a full orchestra as well as a few new songs and covers. All tracks composed by Chris de Burgh; except where indicated. ""In Love Forever"", ""I'm Not Crying Over You"" and ""One More Mile to Go"" were three new songs written for this album. ""Girl"" is missing on compact cassette. ""This is the album I've always wanted to make; a live studio recording of personal favourites, old classics and new songs, with full orchestra and"
"one of the Ten Greatest Love Songs of Country Music. Billy Edd Wheeler Billy Edward ""Edd"" Wheeler (born December 9, 1932, Boone County, West Virginia) is an American songwriter, performer, writer, and visual artist. His songs include ""Jackson"" (Grammy award winner for Johnny Cash and June Carter) ""The Reverend Mr. Black"", ""Desert Pete"", ""Ann"", ""High Flyin' Bird"", ""The Coming of the Roads"", ""It’s Midnight"", ""Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back"", ""Coal Tattoo"", ""Winter Sky"", and ""Coward of the County"" (which inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name) and have been performed by over 160 artists including"
"of Guy Clark,"" published by Texas A&M University in 2016. She worked on the book for eight years, which was completed shortly after Clark's death. The book won the Belmont Book award in 2017 for the best writing on country music. Tamara Saviano Tamara Saviano is an American country music producer and author. She co-produced the Grammy-winning ""Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster"", the Grammy-nominated and Americana Award-winning album """", """", """" and """". Saviano also co-produced, with Shawn Camp, Kris Kristofferson's ""The Cedar Creek Sessions"" which was nominated for a Grammy in 2016. As an author, Saviano wrote"
"""the moody, understated accompaniment from producer Gabriel Rhodes and backing players [that] fits the mood like an old pair of Levi's"". He has produced and recorded projects for Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Kimmie Rhodes, Waylon Jennings, Ray Price, Emmylou Harris, James Burton, Jimmy LaFave, Owen Temple, Paula Nelson, Dick Rivers, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Kieran Goss, Folk Uke, and Calvin Russell, among others. He has contributed to more than 17 nationally distributed albums in the last ten years. He also contributed production duties to ""Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster"", which won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album"
"songs, including ""It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House"" (made famous by Dinah Shore). Harold Spina Harold Spina (21 June 1906 – 18 July 1997) was an American composer of popular songs. His best-known work happened in the early 1930s, when he collaborated with lyricists Johnny Burke and Joe Young on songs such as ""Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore"", ""You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew"", ""My Very Good Friend the Milkman"" (these two hits for Fats Waller), ""Shadows on the Swanee"", ""The Beat of My Heart"", ""Now You've Got Me Doing It"", and ""I've Got"
"simple kind<br>I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence<br>And an old fashioned millionaire. The song's lyricist and composer, Marvin A. ""Marve"" Fisher (June 21, 1907 – September 1, 1957), was an Illinois-born and Los Angeles-based writer of comic and novelty songs, including ""Ring Those Christmas Bells"", recorded by Peggy Lee and others, which Fisher co-wrote with Gus Levene. He is sometimes confused with another songwriter, Marvin Fisher (1916–1993), who wrote ""When Sunny Gets Blue"" and ""Destination Moon"", and was the son of Fred Fisher. Just an Old Fashioned Girl ""Just An Old Fashioned Girl"" is a popular"
"Billy Edd Wheeler Billy Edward ""Edd"" Wheeler (born December 9, 1932, Boone County, West Virginia) is an American songwriter, performer, writer, and visual artist. His songs include ""Jackson"" (Grammy award winner for Johnny Cash and June Carter) ""The Reverend Mr. Black"", ""Desert Pete"", ""Ann"", ""High Flyin' Bird"", ""The Coming of the Roads"", ""It’s Midnight"", ""Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back"", ""Coal Tattoo"", ""Winter Sky"", and ""Coward of the County"" (which inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name) and have been performed by over 160 artists including Judy Collins, Jefferson Airplane, Bobby Darin, The Kingston Trio, Neil"
"Gentle Annie (song) ""Gentle Annie"" is a popular American song written by Stephen Foster in 1856. Tradition has that it was written in honor of Annie Jenkins, the daughter of a grocer in Federal Street, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, named Morgan Jenkins. However, Foster's biographer and niece, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, disputes this and states that it is probably written in honor of his cousin, Annie Evans, who died shortly before it was composed. Some sources say it is Foster's farewell to his maternal grandmother, Annie Pratt McGinnis Hart. His paternal grandmother was Ann Barclay. An alternative version from Australia is also known"
"Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson song) ""Sweet Dreams"" or ""Sweet Dreams (of You)"" is a country ballad, which was written by Don Gibson. Gibson originally recorded the song in 1955; his version hit the top ten of ""Billboard""'s country chart, but was eclipsed by the success of a competing version by Faron Young. In 1960, after Gibson had established himself as a country music superstar, he released a new version as a single. This version also charted in the top ten on the country chart and also crossed over to the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, where it peaked at number ninety-three. The"
"Les Vieux Les Vieux (""The Old Folks"") is a 1963 song written and performed by Jacques Brel. It appeared on the album ""Les Bonbons"" and was co-composed with Brel's frequent collaborative musicians Gérard Jouannest and Jean Corti. The song is a melancholic account about old people who spend their final days in an old folks' home. They are lonely, lethargic and lost all their illusions. The refrain describes how they watch the pendulum of the clock swinging back and forth, which is mimicked in the musical arrangement. As much as they try to resist their old age death remains inevitable."
"Those Good Old Dreams ""Those Good Old Dreams"" is a song by The Carpenters. Its B-side is ""When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)"", a song released on the ""Made in America"" album in 1981. The song talks of reliving dreams and feelings of romantic love held long ago (""It's a new day for those good old dreams / One by one it seems they're coming true""). There was a music video shot for this song in 1981. The video is featured on the """" video collection. Footage of their vinyl record ""Made in America"" being manufactured at the A&M Records"
"over a seven-year period in his ledger. As a result, Foster concdntrated more on minstrel songs, which returned ten times more than parlor songs. Foster did return to writing parlor songs in 1860, most notably ""Beautiful Dreamer,"" published in 1864 just after the composer's death. ""Ah! may the red rose live alway,<br> To smile upon earth and sky!<br> Why should the beautiful ever weep?<br> Why should the beautiful die?<br> Lending a charm to every ray<br> That falls on her cheeks of light,<br> Giving the zephyr kiss for kiss,<br> And nursing the dew-drop bright --<br> Ah! may the red rose live"
"Beautiful Song Beautiful Song is an English language song written by Rolans Ūdris and music composed by Ivars Makstnieks and performed by Anmary, who represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. The lyrics talk about the hopes and dreams of a young aspiring artist who wants to make big encouraged by her mother told her ""to grow and be a singer"" and her father who ""just smiled and gave me my guitar..."" The song uses many Eurovision clichés and makes references to Johnny Logan multiple winner at Eurovision (""I was born in the distant 1980s, the year"
"Old Days ""Old Days"" is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album ""Chicago VIII"" (1975), with lead vocals by Peter Cetera. The second single released from that album, it reached #5 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #3 on the Easy Listening chart. Pankow has said that the song is a nostalgic piece about his childhood: ""Old Days"" is featured on the soundtrack of the movie ""Starsky & Hutch"" (2004). The band also reworked the song in 2009 to serve as the theme for the ""Monsters in the Morning"" show airing"
"Beautiful People (Australian Crawl song) ""Beautiful People"" is the 1979 debut single released by Australian rock band Australian Crawl and later appeared on their debut album ""The Boys Light Up"" (1980). The song was written by James Reyne and Mark Hudson, former bandmates. The music video for ""Beautiful People"" was filmed in 1979 at the then-maligned, dilapidated & graffitied (but now fixed up & heritage-listed) Bellevue House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcq7DSOmIXM Australian Crawl caught the attention of Little River Band’s guitarist David Briggs, who helped them to a recording contract with EMI and produced their first single. ""Beautiful People"" was released in August,"
"fit the melody. Foster himself never saw the Suwannee—or even visited Florida—but the popularity of the song stimulated tourism to Florida, to see the river. Antonín Dvořák's ""Humoresque No. 7"", written in the 1890s, is musically similar and is sometimes played along with ""Old Folks at Home."" The Library of Congress's National Jukebox presents a version with soprano Alma Gluck and violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. Written in the first person from the perspective of an African slave (at a time when slavery was legal in 15 of the states of the US), the song's narrator states ""longing for de old"