who wrote the song the night they drove old dixie down
Across the Great Divide (The Band song)


-horse town" common to Western movies, but that the "harvest moon" and riverside described in the lyrics place the song within the American South, like other songs from the album such as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)." The link with "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was emphasized in many concerts in which "Across the Great Divide" was often played immediately following "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Hoskyns also
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Civil War, portraying the suffering of the protagonist, a poor white Southerner. Robertson stated that he had the music to the song in his head but at first had no idea what it was to be about. Then the concept came to him and he did research on the subject. Levon Helm, a native of Arkansas, stated that he assisted in the research for the lyrics. In his 1993 autobiography, "", Helm wrote, "Robbie and I worked on 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'
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Acadian Driftwood


The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." The "Sarasota Herald-Tribune" affirmed the relationship with "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," noting that it had much of "the tone and historical sensitivity" as the earlier song. The "Herald-Tribune" further noted that the song deals with the theme in a way that not only highlights the plight of the Acadians but also relates it to continuing oppression in the world. Bowman rated "Acadian Driftwood" as "one of Robertson's finest compositions
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and originally recorded by the Canadian roots rock group the Band in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album. Levon Helm provided the lead vocals. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman was raiding southwest Virginia. The song appeared at number 245 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list
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Richmond in the American Civil War


Confederacy. Other museums include the Virginia Historical Society. A statue of Lincoln, commemorating his visit to the former Confederate capitol, was unveiled in 2003, causing controversy. The Charlie Daniels Band song, "Trudy", compares the taking of Richmond by Grant with the narrator saying that he was "raking in chips like Grant took Richmond" in a poker game. Robbie Robertson / The Band wrote 'The night they drove old Dixie down'. One lyric refers to, '...by May the 10th (1865)
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Juliane Werding


Juliane Werding (born 19 July 1956 in Essen) is a German singer and alternative therapy practitioner ("heilpraktiker"). Her recordings include "Am Tag, als Conny Kramer starb" and "Nacht voll Schatten" in 1983 (German cover of Mike Oldfields Moonlight Shadow). "Am Tag, als Conny Kramer starb" is the tune of the American song The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band with new lyrics about a different subject. Werding wrote several books and lives in Starnberg near Munich, where
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Daniel and the Sacred Harp


of most famous bands, who pay for their fame through the effects of bad choices, bad management decisions and other problems. Band drummer and vocalist Levon Helm acknowledges that the theme of the song is "selling your soul for music." According to author Neil Minturn, "Daniel and the Sacred Harp," earlier band songs "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and another song from "Stage Fright", "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show," all
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of Levon, Richard and Rick in the theme, "make it seem impossible that this isn't some traditional material" handed down from father to son straight from that winter of 1865 to today. It has that ring of truth and the whole aura of authenticity. The song has become a part of the ideology of Lost Cause of the Confederacy reflecting the perception of the South prostrate in defeat. The most successful version of the song was released by Joan Baez in 1971. It peaked at number three on the "Billboard
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


up in Woodstock. I remember taking him to the library so he could research the history and geography of the era and make General Robert E. Lee come out with all due respect." Dixie is the historical nickname for the states making up the Confederate States of America. The first lines of the lyrics refer to one of George Stoneman's raids behind Confederate lines attacking the railroads of Danville, Virginia at the end of the Civil War in 1865: The Band frequently performed the song in concert, and it is included on
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's refusal to play the song was a dispute with Robertson over songwriting credits, according to Garth Hudson it was due to Helm's dislike for Joan Baez's version. It was number 245 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Pitchfork Media named it the forty-second best song of the Sixties. The song is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll" and "Time" magazine's All-Time 100.
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


told "Rolling Stone"s Kurt Loder that she initially learned the song by listening to the recording on the Band's album, and had never seen the printed lyrics at the time she recorded it, and thus sang the lyrics as she had (mis)heard them. In more recent years in her concerts, Baez has performed the song as originally written by Robertson. Johnny Cash recorded the song on his 1975 album "John R. Cash". Old-time musician Jimmy Arnold recorded the song on his album "Southern Soul",
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Robbie Robertson


24 weeks. "The Band" works as a loose concept album of Americana themes, and was instrumental in the creation of the Americana Music genre. It was included in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2009. The song with the strongest cultural impact on "The Band" album was "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". The song tells a fictional story of a Confederate citizen's experiences at the end of the American Civil War, and features actual historical events worked into the song to create
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the group's live albums "Rock of Ages" (1972) and "Before the Flood" (1974). The song was included in the concert on Thanksgiving Day 1976 which was recorded in the documentary film about the concert, "The Last Waltz", as well as the soundtrack album from the film. The last time the song was performed by Helm was in "The Last Waltz" (1976). Helm refused to play the song afterwards. Although it has long been believed that the reason for Helm
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Joan Baez recorded a version of the song that became a top-five chart hit in late 1971. The song was written by Robbie Robertson and Levon Helm. According to Rob Bowman's liner notes to the 2000 reissue of the Band's second album, "The Band", it has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on peoples, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana. The lyrics tell of the last days of the American
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The Band (album)


"When You Awake" and "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)." The original LP back cover quotes the opening lines from Shelton Brooks's 1917 composition "Darktown Strutters' Ball". The album includes many of the Band's best-known and critically acclaimed songs, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which "Rolling Stone" named the 245th greatest song of all time (in the updated version, it was the 249th greatest song of all time). In 2003, the album
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The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show


All about Jazz", stating that the song represented the American archetype of "celebration and good times." Helm takes the lead vocal on "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" with bassist Rick Danko singing some passages. Hoskyns finds the song to be "as tailor made for [Helm] as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," stating that this song comes closer than any on "Stage Fright" to the mood of the Band's previous album "The Band". DeRiso states that Helms' "
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


Ralph J. Gleason (in the review in "Rolling Stone" (U.S. edition only) of October 1969) explains why this song has such an impact on listeners:Nothing I have read … has brought home "the overwhelming human sense of history" that this song does. The only thing I can relate it to at all is "The Red Badge of Courage". It's a remarkable song, the rhythmic structure, the voice of Levon and the bass line with the drum accents and then the heavy close harmony
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


, Legion of Mary, and the Zac Brown Band have included it on live albums. Glen Hansard (of the Frames and the Swell Season), accompanied by Lisa Hannigan and John Smith, performed the song in July 2012 for "The A.V. Club" A.V. Undercover: Summer Break series. The 1972 song "Am Tag als Conny Kramer starb" ("On the Day That Conny Kramer Died"), which uses the tune of the song, was a number-one hit in West Germany for singer Juliane Werding
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The Band (album)


The Band is the second studio album by the Band, released on September 22, 1969. It is also known as The Brown Album. According to Rob Bowman's liner notes for the 2000 reissue, "The Band" has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana. Thus, the songs on this album draw on historic themes for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)"
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The Band


other popular music of the day. (Several other artists made similar stylistic moves about the same time, notably Dylan, on "John Wesley Harding", which was written during the "Basement Tapes" sessions, and the Byrds, on "Sweetheart of the Rodeo", which featured two "Basement Tapes" covers.) "The Band" featured songs that evoked old-time rural America, from the Civil War in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" to the unionization of farm workers in "King
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The Sheepdogs


CBC Toronto building. The 18-minute recording was posted to CBC Music on September 4, and featured four songs from "The Sheepdogs" album: "The Way It Is", "Feeling Good", "Ewan's Blues" (featuring a trombone solo by Shamus Currie), and "Alright OK". The band finished the set with a cover of The Band's hit "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". The last two songs of the session also featured fellow Canadian artist Travis Good from the country
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The Last Waltz


McClure, Robert Duncan and Freewheelin' Frank gave readings. The Band started its concert at around 9:00 p.m., opening with "Up on Cripple Creek", during the wind-down of which vocalist/drummer Levon Helm called out a humorous "I sure wish I could yodel!" This was followed by eleven more of The Band's most popular songs, including "The Shape I'm In", "This Wheel's on Fire" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". They were backed by
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Levon Helm


Springsteen also said it was one of the songs that he had played with drummer Max Weinberg in Weinberg's audition with for the band. On June 2, 2012, at Mountain Jam, Gov't Mule, along with the Levon Helm Band (with Lukas Nelson coming on stage for the closing song) played a tribute set, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," "Up on Cripple Creek,""It Makes No Difference," and closing with "The Weight." A tribute concert called Love for Levon took place
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George Stoneman


at age 72. He is buried in the Bentley Cemetery in Lakewood, New York. Stoneman's raids into North Carolina and Virginia in the last weeks of the war were memorialized by songwriter Robbie Robertson of The Band, in the 1969 song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Stoneman is not mentioned in the 1971 recording of the song by Joan Baez, in which she substitutes "so much cavalry" for "Stoneman's cavalry". Baez told Kurt Loder of "Rolling Stone" magazine that she had
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To Kingdom Come: The Definitive Collection


To Kingdom Come: The Definitive Collection is an anthology by Canadian-American rock band the Band, released in 1989. The thirty-one tracks were mostly taken from the group's eight albums on Capitol Records. The group's better-known songs, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Chest Fever", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "The Shape I'm In", "Life Is a Carnival" and "It Makes No Difference",
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" Hot 100 chart in the US in October that year and spent five weeks atop the easy listening chart. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 20 song for 1971. The version reached number six in the pop charts in the UK in October 1971. The song became a Gold record. Baez's version was used during a pivotal scene in the 2017 film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and is included on the film's soundtrack. The Baez recording had some changes in the lyrics. Baez later
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All Things Must Pass (song)


verses of "All Things Must Pass" are set to a logical climb within the key of E; the brief choruses form a departure from this, with their inclusion of a B minor chord rather than the more expected major voicing. Author Ian Inglis notes that the composition incorporates the same "modes, cadences and suspensions" found in Band songs such as "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". For his lyrics, Harrison drew inspiration from "All Things Pass", a poem published
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Live (Tanya Tucker album)


Live is the first live album by American country music singer Tanya Tucker. It was released on March 1, 1982, by MCA Records. She primarily performs live versions of songs that have been previously recorded in studio and released on her earlier albums. Three of the songs, however, had not appeared on any of her prior albums: "Somebody Buy This Cowgirl a Beer," "Pecos Promenade," and Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," which was made famous earlier by Joan
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Joan Baez


immediate success. Her first three albums, "Joan Baez", "Joan Baez, Vol. 2", and "Joan Baez in Concert" all achieved gold record status. Songs of acclaim include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". She is also known for "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Forever Young", "Here's
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


which was composed of songs associated with the Southern side of the Civil War. A fairly large-scale orchestrated version of the song appears on the 1971 concept album "California '99" by Jimmie Haskell, with lead vocal by Jimmy Witherspoon. Others to record versions include Don Rich, Steve Young, John Denver, the Allman Brothers Band, Derek Warfield. the Charlie Daniels Band, Big Country, the Dave Brockie Experience, Vikki Carr, Richie Havens, the Black Crowes, the Jerry Garcia Band, Sophie B. Hawkins
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The Band


influenced by the Band began to gain popularity, including Counting Crows, the Wallflowers, and the Black Crowes. Counting Crows indicated this influence with their tribute to the late Richard Manuel, "If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)", from their album "Hard Candy". The Black Crowes frequently cover songs by the Band during live performances, such as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which appears on their DVD/CD "Freak 'n' Roll into the Fog
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Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour


contained a representative sample of the tour, drawn from shows in New York City and Inglewood. Tour ticket sales proved to Dylan that his commercial prospects were still strong on the road. Furthermore, his critical status was once again growing after years of minimal activity; it would bound far higher with the next year's release of "Blood on the Tracks". Average setlist according to Setlist.fm : Occasionally the band would perform songs such as "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and "
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The Last Waltz


Fright", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". The live songs are interspersed with studio segments and interviews conducted by director Martin Scorsese in which The Band's members reminisce about the group's history. Robertson talks about Hudson joining the band on the condition that the other members pay him $10 a week each for music lessons. The classically trained Hudson could then tell his parents that he was a music teacher instead of merely a rock and roll musician. Robertson also describes the surreal experience of playing in
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Hits: Greatest and Others


Hits: Greatest and Others was a 1973 compilation Vanguard put together at the end of Joan Baez' association with their label. In addition to her hit cover of The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", songs by the Beatles and Kris Kristofferson were also included. Unlike previous compilations, this one skipped over most of Baez' earlier traditional material almost entirely, in favor of her more recent singer-songwriter material and covers. "Heaven Help Us All" is a 1970 soul single composed by Ron
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Norman Blake (American musician)


Baez and appeared on her hit song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". In 1971, he became a member of the bluegrass group Aero-plain, led by multi-instrumentalist John Hartford with fiddler Vassar Clements, but the band didn't last long. Blake also played dobro on the 1972 album, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. In 1972, Blake recorded his first solo album, "Back Home in Sulphur Springs" (Rounder, 1972). Soon after
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Danville, Virginia


these prisoners. Their remains have been interred in the Danville National Cemetery. The Richmond and Danville Railroad was the main supply route into Petersburg, where Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was holding the defensive line to protect Richmond. The Danville supply train ran until General Stoneman's Union cavalry troops tore up the tracks. This event was immortalized in the song, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". In 1865 Danville hosted the Confederate government. President Jefferson Davis stayed at the mansion of William T. Sutherlin from April 3
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Levon Helm


Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and one of the vocalists for the Band. Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style, highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Helm also had a successful
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William Jackson Palmer


Joe Wheeler. If Palmer had pushed on to Danville, only 20 miles to the north, he might very well have captured Jefferson Davis, who up till then had not left the last capital of the Confederacy (Davis left the next day, upon receiving word of Lee's surrender). This was a little-known campaign immortalized in the Band's epic, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Palmer commanded the cavalry pursuit of Jefferson Davis following the surrender by General Joseph E. Johnston. Davis was followed
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Robbie Robertson


, and has been inducted to Canada's Walk of Fame, both with the Band and on his own. He is ranked 59th in "Rolling Stone" magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists. As a songwriter, Robertson is credited for writing "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Broken Arrow", "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and
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Jerry Garcia Band


Smokey Robinson's "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and "I Second That Emotion," Peter Tosh's "Stop That Train," Bob Marley's "Stir It Up," Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the Manhattans' "Shining Star," Van Morrison's "And It Stoned Me" and "Bright Side of the Road" and Norton Buffalo's "Ain't No Bread in the Breadbox." The band also performed Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
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Robbie Robertson


Drove Old Dixie Down," and "Acadian Driftwood," Robertson touches on history that connects to his life and family. The Battle Of Wounded Knee and the near extinction of the buffalo in the United States are outlined in the song, "Ghost Dance." Robertson was recognized with a Juno Award for Producer of the Year. The international success of "Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song)" inspired a concert in Agrigento, Italy, celebrating Native American music. Robertson headlined the festival along with other Native American musicians
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Blessed Are...


Blessed Are... was a 1971 album by Joan Baez, and her last with Vanguard Records. It included her hit cover of The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", and work by Kris Kristofferson, the Beatles, Jesse Winchester and The Rolling Stones, as well as a significant number of Baez' own compositions. Like its immediate predecessors, the album was recorded in Nashville, and had a decidedly country feel. The original vinyl version was released as a double album, which also included a bonus
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Top of the World (Dixie Chicks song)


Evening with the Dixie Chicks", Maines attempted to explain the song's startingly unusual perspective: It is written from the point of view of a man who has passed on, and he's sort of looking down wishing that he had been a different person, and having a lot of regrets and wishing he hadn't had the negative effect on the people in his life and err... I don't know what I just said... Author Chris Willman wrote that this was "a song that could send a chill down even
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The Best of Sophie B. Hawkins (2003 album)


The Best of Sophie B. Hawkins is a 2003 compilation album by Sophie B. Hawkins. It was released exclusively in the United States, and contains much of the same tracks as the previous year's compilation of the same name, which was released internationally. Instead, this album replaces single "Don't Don't Tell Me No", The Band cover "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "We Are One Body" from the previous album for "Whaler" track "Swing from Limb to Limb (My
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Quad Studios Nashville


hit recording of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and Dobie Gray's R&B classic "Drift Away." Other artists to record at the studio in the early years include Dan Fogelberg, Grand Funk Railroad, The Jackson Five, The Pointer Sisters, Joe Walsh and The James Gang, and many others. Quad remains a historic yet viable studio today. More recent high-profile artists recording sessions at the studio include Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, The Fray, Jewel, Phil Vassar, George
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Sass Jordan


inspired to pursue a musical career by hearing The Band's 1969 track "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" on the radio, has cited as among her primary musical influences Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, Tears For Fears, Anthrax and American soul singer Al Green. In her early teens, Jordan would regularly sing and play guitar with a group of friends in Westmount Park and, leaving her parental home at age 14 around the time of her parents' marital split, was by the age of 16
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Dixie (song)


Land. Then I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand to live and die in Dixie, Away, away, away down South in Dixie, Away, away, away down South in Dixie./poem According to tradition, Ohio-born minstrel show composer Daniel Decatur Emmett wrote "Dixie" around 1859. Over his lifetime, Emmett often recounted the story of its composition, and details vary with each account. For example, in various versions of the story, Emmett said
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William Shakespeare Hays


a song called "Away Down South in Dixie" with words attributed to "Jerry Blossom" and music by "Dixie Jr.", but it was in 1860—after Firth, Pond & Co.'s version. In 1917, Thomas J. Firth wrote to Mrs. Hays for a copy of Hays's version of the song, but she had none to show him. In 1916, Edward Le Roy Rice, journalist for "The New York Clipper", wrote to Mrs. Hays and explained that he was researching a book on "Dixie
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Dixie (song)


he had written "Dixie" in a few minutes, in a single night, and over a few days. An 1872 edition of the "New York Clipper" provides one of the earliest accounts, relating that on a Saturday night shortly after Emmett had been taken on as songwriter for the Bryant's Minstrels, Jerry Bryant told him they would need a new walkaround by the following Monday. By this account, Emmett shut himself inside his New York apartment and wrote the song that Sunday evening. Other details emerge in later
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I Drove All Night


it "a Cher-style eurodisco." "Slant Magazine"s Sal Cinquemani echoed the same thought, saying that "she gets the Cher treatment on the blazing cover." "People"s Chuck Arnold wrote that in the song, Dion "shows surprising restraint for a diva who just had a coliseum custom-built for her." "The Guardian"s Betty Clarke wrote a negative review, saying: "Her cover of Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night" is full of reverberating notes and sultry asides, but reveals a
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Music of the American Civil War


boys, hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star" being changed to "Our Dixie forever! She's never at a loss! Down with the eagle and up with the cross!" The Union also adapted Southern Songs. In a Union variation of "Dixie", instead of the line "I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten, Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land", it was changed to "Away down South in
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Dixie (song)


Dixie" were the only lines used with any consistency. The tempo also quickened, as the song was a useful quickstep tune. Confederate soldiers by and large preferred these war versions to the original minstrel lyrics. "Dixie" was probably the most popular song for Confederate soldiers on the march, in battle, and at camp. Southerners who rallied to the song proved reluctant to acknowledge a Yankee as its composer. Accordingly, some ascribed it a longer tradition as a folk song. Poet John Hill Hewitt wrote in 1862 that
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Dixie (song)


land I'll took my stand, Nor lib no die in Dixie/poem Soldiers on both sides wrote endless parody versions of the song. Often these discussed the banalities of camp life: "Pork and cabbage in the pot, / It goes in cold and comes out hot," or, "Vinegar put right on red beet, / It makes them always fit to eat." Others were more nonsensical: "Way down South in the fields of cotton, / Vinegar shoes and paper stockings." Aside from
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Hayseed Dixie


of music in four nights. Hayseed Dixie made a three-consecutive-night appearance at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany in 2011, playing three entirely different sets of material each night. Hayseed Dixie released an album on April 11, 2011 composed almost entirely of songs in the Norwegian language, titled "Sjt Munchs Drikkeklubb Band". The group also charted a single in the summer of 2011 in Finland called "Juodaan Viinaa," (a cover version of a song by Finnish musician Hector) which loosely translates to
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Dixie (song)


was left for the improvisational moment." The "New York Clipper" wrote in 1872 that "[Emmett's] claim to authorship of 'Dixie' was and is still disputed, both in and out of the minstrel profession." Emmett himself said, "Show people generally, if not always, have the chance to hear every local song as they pass through the different sections of [the] country, and particularly so with minstrel companies, who are always on the look out for songs and sayings that will
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G. B. Grayson


his shoulder rather than his chin. Most of the songs he wrote were based loosely on other well-known songs of the day. "Train 45" was derived from the banjo tune "Reuben," and "Joking Henry" was probably influenced by the folk song "Frankie and Johnnie." He wrote "Going Down the Lee Highway" as he and Whitter drove along U.S. Route 11 in Johnson County in 1929. He learned "Nine Pound Hammer" from fellow fiddler Charlie Bowman (who had picked it up
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List of songs recorded by Basshunter


"Can You". Simons also co-wrote "I Can't Deny" and "Numbers"; he and Basshunter wrote and produced "On Our Side". "The Early Bedroom Sessions" was a compilation album which was released on 3 December 2012. The album consisted of seven songs from two previous Basshunter albums, "The Old Shit", and all 10 songs from "The Bassmachine". "Go Down Now" was a single, and "Angel in the Night" was released as a promotional
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Poor Little Fool


"Poor Little Fool" is a rock and roll song written by Sharon Sheeley and first recorded by Ricky Nelson in 1958. Sheeley wrote the song when she was fifteen years old. She had met Elvis Presley, and he encouraged her to write. It was based on her disappointment following a short-lived relationship with a member of a popular singing duo. Sheeley sought Ricky Nelson to record the tune. She drove to his house, and claimed her car had broken down. He came to her aid, and she
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Christmas in Dixie


, who published both his song, "On The Inside" and the Alabama song "Christmas In Dixie", because he thought that it plagiarized the theme song he wrote for "Prisoner, On the Inside". This action was based on ATV Sony commissioning a copyright expert to provide advice as to whether a plagiarism had taken place. The original version spent seven weeks on the charts between late 1982 and early 1983, peaking at number 35. It re-entered the chart three times between 1997 and 2000. The
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Dixie Fried


single in 1979 on the Shelby Singleton-owned Sun Golden Treasure Series as Sun 10. Howard "Curley" Griffin was a singer and disc jockey from Jackson, Tennessee who quoted from the song in his own release, "Got Rockin' On My Mind", released in 1957 on the Atomic Records label as 305. Griffin uses the refrain "rave on" and "dixie fried". Griffin also co-wrote the song "Boppin' the Blues" with Carl Perkins in 1956. The 1958 Sonny West song
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I Drove All Night


"I Drove All Night" is a song written and composed by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and made famous by American singer Cyndi Lauper. The song was originally intended for Roy Orbison, who recorded it in 1987, the year before his death, but his version was not released until 1992, after Lauper's version became a top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1989. The song has also been covered by Pinmonkey (2002) and Celine Dion (2003) among others. "I Drove
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The Dukes of Hazzard


time consuming. The Duke boys added a custom air horn to the General Lee that played the first 12 notes of the song "Dixie". The Dixie horn was not originally planned, until a Georgia local hot rod racer drove by and sounded his car's Dixie horn. The producers immediately rushed after him asking where he had bought the horn. Warner Bros. purchased several Chargers for stunts, as they generally destroyed at least one or two cars per episode. By the end of the show's sixth season, the Chargers
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Dixie (song)


come away. Where cotton's king and men are chattels, Union boys will win the battles, Right away, come away, right away, come away. Then we'll all go down to Dixie, Away, away, Each Dixie boy must understand That he must mind his Uncle Sam./poem "The New Dixie!: The True 'Dixie' for Northern Singers" takes a different approach, turning the original song on its head: poem Den I'm glad I'm not in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Yankee
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Heading West


"Heading West" was the fourth single from Cyndi Lauper's album "A Night to Remember" released worldwide, and the third single released from the album in Europe. It was not released as a single in North America. "Heading West" was written by Lauper, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The same team wrote "My First Night Without You, and the latter two wrote "True Colors", and "I Drove All Night". The song is about moving on from a past relationship, which
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I'm Gwine ober de Mountain


"I'm Gwine ober de Mountain", also spelled "I'm Going ober de Mountain", is an American song written by blackface minstrel composer Dan Emmett. The song may be a precursor to "Dixie", as evidenced by its line "Away down south in de Kentuck brake"; in comparison, "Dixie" includes the line, "Away down south in Dixie". The first phrase of "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain" was probably modeled after "The Spinning Wheel", an older
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Joan Baez


Dixie Down", her cover of The Band's signature song. With "Come from the Shadows" (1972), Baez switched to A&M Records, where she remained for four years and six albums. Joan Baez wrote "The Story of Bangladesh" in 1971. This song was based on the Pakistani army crackdown on unarmed sleeping Bengali students at Dhaka University on March 25, 1971, which ignited the prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War. The song was later entitled "The Song of Bangladesh" and released in
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Dixie (song)


Weekly" wrote, "... no one ever heard of Dixie's land being other than Manhattan Island until recently, when it has been erroneously supposed to refer to the South, from its connection with pathetic negro allegory." In 1888 the publishers of a Boston songbook included "Dixie" as a "patriotic song," and in 1895 the Confederate Veterans' Association suggested a celebration in honor of "Dixie" and Emmett in Washington as a bipartisan tribute. One of the planners noted that: In this era of peace
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Billy Steinberg


They also wrote or co-wrote the hit songs "I Drove All Night" (recorded by various artists, 1987), "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls (1990), and "I'll Stand By You" by The Pretenders (1994). After Kelly retired from music in the 1990s, Steinberg collaborated with other songwriters. With Rick Nowels and Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo he wrote the hit songs "Falling into You" (covered by Celine Dion) and "One & One". He has written
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I Drove All Night


. "I Drove All Night" was recorded by Celine Dion for her eighth English-language studio album, "One Heart" (2003), and released as the lead single on 3 March 2003. The song was featured in a promotional ad for Chrysler. The "I Drove All Night" music video was directed by Peter Arnell and released in February 2003. It was included on the United Kingdom enhanced double A-side single "One Heart/I Drove All Night". The song was commercially successful,
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Dixie (song)


I will be damned if I'd have written it." In May 1861 Confederate Henry Hotze wrote: It is marvellous with what wild-fire rapidity this tune "Dixie" has spread over the whole South. Considered as an intolerable nuisance when first the streets re-echoed it from the repertoire of wandering minstrels, it now bids fair to become the musical symbol of a new nationality, and we shall be fortunate if it does not impose its very name on our country. Southerners who shunned the song's low origins
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Music history of the United States to the Civil War


Dixie" to describe the south (Chase, 240). That song is one of several from the period written from the point of view of an escaped slave who pines for the plantation he has escaped from. Emmett wrote this song after joining Bryant's Minstrels in 1858, when tensions across the country were high, and controversy raged surrounding slavery, state's rights and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. Emmett's use of "Dixie" was as a personal name, given to a black postboy, and may
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Dan Wilson (musician)


Wilson co-wrote six of the songs on the Dixie Chicks multiple-Grammy-winning album "Taking the Long Way", including the title song and "Not Ready to Make Nice", which earned Wilson and the Dixie Chicks the 2007 Grammy for Song of the Year. In the 2006 film "", Wilson speaks on camera about his experience as a co-writer on this album, especially in regard to helping the Dixie Chicks make an artistic response to their rejection by radio and a large swath of their
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Papa Don't Leech


's Back". The two appear to have a newfound happiness, and spend a lot of time together. But Royce eventually decides to leave Lurleen again. Lurleen is now more depressed than ever. Soon, a new song from the Dixie Chicks plays on TV. Lurleen's father is in the music video, and one of the Dixie Chicks claims that he wrote the song, which is a clear plagiarism of the song Lurleen wrote for their reunion. She goes to the basement to sulk. Homer, in his Colonel
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Dixie (song)


answer their business." He claimed at one point to have based the first part of "Dixie" on "Come Philander Let's Be Marchin, Every One for His True Love Searchin", which he described as a "song of his childhood days." Musical analysis does show some similarities in the melodic outline, but the songs are not closely related. Emmett also credited "Dixie" to an old circus song. Despite the disputed authorship, Firth, Pond & Co. paid Emmett $300 for all rights to
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Missouri Waltz


" "And you wander in dreams back to Dixie, it seems," "When you hear that old time song. " "Hush-a-bye ma baby, go to sleep on Mommy's knee," "Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me; " "It seems like your Mommy is there once again, " "And the old folks were strummin' that same old refrain." "Way down in Missouri where I learned this lullaby, " "When the stars were blinkin'
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Roger Ferris


Roger Ferris is a British pop music composer, who wrote a Top 30 UK chart hit single in 1975 for the British band Arrows, entitled "My Last Night With You." The song was produced by Mickie Most on his RAK label. "My Last Night With You" was also a top 30 chart hit in European territories as recorded by Arrows. Ferris wrote two more songs for the Arrows, "Hard Hearted" and "Broken Down Heart", both released in 1975 in the UK and Europe. "
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Valle Hondo


. At one time the flat was the location of a Native American rancheria. Later Joaquin Murrieta's horse gang used it as an overnight camp for their droves of wild and stolen horses who were enclosed within a brush corral for the night and called it Valle Hondo. Other horses might be added into the drove there. The droves were brought down from Valle Atravesado on the main trail of La Vereda del Monte along the divide of the Diablo Range where County Line Road runs today. The droves of horses were driven down from
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Dixie (song)


its being rendered in standard English, the chorus was the only section not regularly altered, even for parodies. The first verse and chorus, in non-dialect form, are the best-known portions of the song today: poem I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten, Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land. In Dixie Land where I was born in, early on a frosty mornin', Look away, look away, look away, Dixie
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I Love a Rainy Night


of sitting in a small apartment, staring out the window at one o'clock in the morning, watching the rain come down," wrote Bronson in "The Billboard Book of Number One Hits". "He sang into his tape recorder, 'I love a rainy night, I love a rainy night.'" Upon rediscovery of the old lyrics, Rabbitt completed the song (with help from frequent songwriting partners Even Stevens and David Malloy) and recorded it. The end result included vivid descriptions of a man's fondness
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Hayseed Dixie


coastal town of Ullapool, Scotland, which has since become an annual event, though they are no longer involved with it. In June 2007 Hayseed Dixie appeared on the opening day of the Download Festival and played at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in July 2007. In October 2010, the band played a four-night stand called Hayfest: Tour of Glasgow, Scotland performing four consecutive themed nights (drinking, cheating, killing and hell songs respectively) in the Scottish city with no songs repeated, thus playing over eight hours
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An Old Fashioned Love Song


in Canada. Its lyrics suggest the straightforward and melodic nature of the tune: "Just an old fashioned love song / Comin' down in three part harmony / Just an old fashioned love song / One I'm sure they wrote for you and me". According to the Karen Carpenter biography "Little Girl Blue" by Randy L. Schmidt, Williams originally intended the song for The Carpenters, who were in the middle of a string of hits with their own brand of "old fashioned love songs," including two of
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Tender Mercies


. Backstage, he talks to Dixie's manager, his old friend Harry (Wilford Brimley). Mac gives him a copy of a new song he has written and asks him to show it to Dixie. Mac tries to talk to Dixie, but she becomes angry upon seeing him and warns him to stay away from their 18-year-old daughter, Sue Anne (Ellen Barkin). Upon his return home, Mac assures Rosa Lee he no longer has feelings for Dixie, whom he describes as "poison" to him
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Dixie Travel Plaza


66. It has also been the subject of articles in the "Chicago Tribune" in articles about Old Route 66. Dixie was referred to as "one of the most impressive" late night stops along I-55. When the Interstate system was constructed and Route 66 was decommissioned, the portion of Route 66 that Dixie was located on became a portion of I-55. In 2003, the original owners sold the business, after which it was renamed "Dixie Travel Plaza". It was purchased by a company in Providence, Rhode
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I Drove All Night


who loved it and had Dion record it with Swedish producer Peer Astrom. She used the song in her Las Vegas show and it became the centerpiece of the Chrysler campaign. The commercials were great exposure for the song and helped sell many albums, but they did not sell enough cars. Chrysler pulled out of the deal after many of their dealers complained and it became clear the ads were not working. In Dion's version, "I Drove All Night" is dance-pop. It was also considered "a little
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I Saw the Light (Hank Williams song)


. His mother, Lilly, drove him and the band back to Montgomery that night. As she was approaching the city, she spotted the lights of Dannelly Field Airport. Williams, who slept inebriated in the backseat of the car, was roused by his mother, who told him "I just saw the light", announcing him that they were close to Montgomery. He wrote the first draft on January 26, 1947. The lyrics and the melody by Williams closely resembled Albert E. Brumley's "He Set Me Free
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An Evening with the Dixie Chicks


An Evening with the Dixie Chicks is a 2002 live music documentary featuring the Dixie Chicks and directed by Joel Gallen. As of March 2003, An Evening with the Dixie Chicks has sold 2 million copies in the United States and has been certified 2x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). "An Evening" was filmed over two nights at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. The film features songs from the band's albums "Home", "Fly" and "Wide Open Spaces". The concerts were
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Keenwild


new songs together, Bill and Jeney knew that the name Superdank was not the correct one for this new and different project. While driving to one of Bill's favorite hiking locations in Idyllwild, California the pair were writing down random ideas when they drove past an area of the forest named 'Keenwild' and wrote down that name as well and eventually chose it. In late 2004 the Keenwild song "Mr Pete" went to #1 on the Australian MP3.com.au charts. The song "Rivers" made it to the top
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Top of the World (Dixie Chicks song)


"Top of the World" is a contemporary folk-country song written by Patty Griffin and most known as recorded and performed in Grammy Award-winning fashion by the Dixie Chicks. Griffin wrote and recorded "Top of the World" for her would-be 2000 album Silver Bell. But a dispute with her label A&M Records caused the album to go unreleased and Griffin to be dropped, although copies of "Silver Bell" circulated and increased Griffin's reputation as a songwriter within the music industry. The Dixie Chicks,
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Missouri Waltz


whole day long," "And you wander in dreams back to Dixie, it seems," "When you hear that old time song. " "Hush-a-bye ma baby, go to sleep on Mammy's knee," "Journey back to Dixieland in dreams again with me; " "It seems like your Mammy was there once again, " "And the darkies were strummin' that same old refrain." "Way down in Missouri where I learned this lullaby, " "When the stars
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William Shakespeare Hays


, Pond & Co. did so for Emmett. Faulds said that his version was copyrighted and attributed to Hays as "Way Down South in Dixie". Furthermore, Faulds wrote that only the lyrics had been copyrighted, since the music came from an earlier English song that began "If I were a soldier wouldn't I go . . .", and which had been subsequently parodied in a children's song. Unfortunately for Firth, all copies had been lost in a store fire. Evidence suggests that Faulds's did publish
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Dixie (song)


Civil War broke out, one New Yorker wrote, Dixie" has become an institution, an irrepressible institution in this section of the country ... As a consequence, whenever "Dixie" is produced, the pen drops from the fingers of the plodding clerk, spectacles from the nose and the paper from the hands of the merchant, the needle from the nimble digits of the maid or matron, and all hands go hobbling, bobbling in time with the magical music of "Dixie." The Rumsey and Newcomb Minstrels brought "
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I Still Believe (Jeremy Camp song)


, 2003. He wrote the song after the passing of his first wife, Melissa, who died from ovarian cancer on February 5, 2001. Camp wrote on the liner notes of WOW Hits 2004, "This is the first song that the Lord gave me after the passing of my wife. I remember one night the Lord speaking to my heart to sit down and write a song, and I really didn't feel like writing at the time, but of course the tug was too strong. The whole basis of
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Dixie (song)


on the track "Whisling Dixie" on their album, "Filet of Soul". In Netflix's "House of Cards", Kevin Spacey's character Francis Underwood sings "Dixie" during a ceremony at his alma mater. His old school friends appear and they sing the first verse to cheering. The Charlie Daniels Band guitarist Bruce Ray Brown performed a live instrumental with a slide guitar for the "Freebird... The Movie" soundtrack. Ben Carson's official campaign theme song, "This Is America," references the
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Dixie (film)


delivering about 40 per cent of the time in a ruffled and reminiscent picture entitled 'Dixie' which came to that theatre yesterday. Otherwise, the remainder of the picture is mainly and not so spiritedly absorbed in a largely fictitious story of Dan Emmett, the original ‘Virginia Minstrels’ man and the author of the rousing song “Dixie”— a role which the old booper, Bing Crosby, plays... And when Bashful Bing is warbling such sparkless but adequate songs as “Sunday, Monday or Always”, “She
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Jack Yellen


of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1913 where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. After graduating he became a reporter for the "Buffalo Courier", continuing to write songs on the side. Yellen's first collaborator on a song was George L. Cobb, with whom he wrote a number of Dixie songs including "Alabama Jubilee", "Are You From Dixie?", and
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Whistlin' Dixie


"Whistlin' Dixie" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Randy Houser. It was released in November 2009 as the lead-off single from his 2010 album "They Call Me Cadillac". Houser wrote the song with Kim Tribble. The song is an up-tempo in which the narrator lists off various traits pertaining to a rural lifestyle. Matt Bjorke of "Roughstock" gave the song a positive review, describing it as a "likable southern rock track" and comparing Houser's
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The Unfaithful Servant


Old Dixie Down" and "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)," represent Robertson's "creative peak." In his autobiography, Elvis Costello identified "The Unfaithful Servant" as his favorite song. George Harrison biographer Simon Leng identifies the Band's first two albums as significant influences on Harrison's solo song writing, and particularly identifies "The Unfaithful Servant" as an influence. Leng identifies a number of elements that showed up in many of Harrison's solo efforts, including "the medium tempo, the tension of
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Hail to the Redskins


Fight for old Dixie", but in fact this line was only used between 1959 and 1961, as a glance at contemporary game day programs will verify. Each of these programs printed the lyrics, and "Old D.C." can be seen in all years except 1959 through 1961. This phrase then returned to "Fight for ol' D.C.!" The early arrangements of the song also closed to the open of the well known southern folk song, "Dixie" played as a counter-melody. In July 1965 a black
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Showgirl in Hollywood


sequel to the 1928 Warner Bros. silent film "Show Girl" which also starred Alice White as Dixie Dugan. A French version of the film, titled "Le masque d'Hollywood", was directed by Clarence G. Badger and John Daumery. When the film begins, a musical show before closed down before it has had a chance to even open. Jimmie Doyle (Jack Mulhall), who wrote the musical intends to rewrite it while his girlfriend, Dixie Dugan (Alice White), fed up at wasting her time for a
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My First Night Without You


"My First Night Without You" is the second single released from Cyndi Lauper's third album "A Night To Remember" (1989). The ballad is about coming home for the first time without a partner being there after a break up. The video clip is also about this, with Lauper coming home after a long day at work to an empty room after a separation. The song was written by Lauper, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg. The latter two also wrote "True Colors" and "I Drove
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