The music of STEPHEN FOSTER (you know the songs)
03-16-07, 12:29 PM
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The music of STEPHEN FOSTER (you know the songs)
This brilliant guy, who died young at age 37 impoverished in NY's Bowery, wrote some of America's best loved songs:
01: Camptown Races
02: Oh! Susanna
03: My Old Kentucky Home
04: Beautiful Dreamer
05: Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
06: Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
Imagine, writing songs that would remain alive for hundreds of years, and dying with just .38 cents in his pocket.
One of his songs, Old Black Joe, I only know because of Bugs Bunny. In the WB short Southern Fried Rabbit, as Bugs is about to cross over into the South via the Mason-Dixon line, he's singing: I'm a-comin', I'm a-comin, but my head is standing....(blast from Sam's pistol causes Bugs to lower his head)...low
01: Camptown Races
02: Oh! Susanna
03: My Old Kentucky Home
04: Beautiful Dreamer
05: Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)
06: Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair
Imagine, writing songs that would remain alive for hundreds of years, and dying with just .38 cents in his pocket.
One of his songs, Old Black Joe, I only know because of Bugs Bunny. In the WB short Southern Fried Rabbit, as Bugs is about to cross over into the South via the Mason-Dixon line, he's singing: I'm a-comin', I'm a-comin, but my head is standing....(blast from Sam's pistol causes Bugs to lower his head)...low
03-16-07, 01:03 PM
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I have a lot of conflict regarding Mr. Foster, since, as a native of that great land, I tear up every time I hear "My Old Kentucky Home", yet I'm painfully aware that many or most of his songs were in their original versions horribly racist.
