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Lyricist (s) Stephen C. Foster. " My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! ", typically shortened to " My Old Kentucky Home ", is a sentimental ballad written by Stephen Foster, probably composed in 1852. [1] [2] [3] It was published in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. [1] [4] Foster was likely inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe 's anti ...
My Old Kentucky Home is a short animation film originally released in June 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes series. [1] The series, between May 1924 and September 1926, eventually totaled 36 films, of which 19 were made with sound. This cartoon features the original lyrics of "My Old Kentucky ...
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh!
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Linda Blackford: A group of Louisvillians that includes Ben Sollee, Emily Bingham and Hannah Drake have reckoned with Kentucky’s melodic but racist state song and come up with some inclusive ...
1860. Songwriter (s) Stephen Foster. " Old Black Joe " is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1860. [1] Ken Emerson, author of the book Doo-Dah! (1998), indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by a servant in the home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh ...
Opinion: KY's state song, 'My Old Kentucky Home,' evokes a racist past and should be banished to the archives of historical shame. We need a new song.
Nelly Gray (song) " Darling Nelly Gray " is a 19th century anti-slavery ballad written and composed by Benjamin Hanby in 1856. It is written as from the point of view of an African-American male slave in Kentucky whose sweetheart has been taken away by slave-owners. The man mourns his beloved, who has been sold South to Georgia (where the slave ...