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"Old Folks at Home" (also known as "Swanee River") is a folk song written by Stephen Foster in 1851. Since 1935, it has been the official state song of Florida, although in 2008 the original lyrics were revised. [1] It is Roud Folk Song Index no. 13880. [2]
The same year, "Paddlin' Madelin Home" was published, with words and music by Woods. With Mort Dixon and Billy Rose, Woods composed "I Wish't I Was in Peoria", now a Dixieland jazz standard, in 1925. By 1926, Woods was an established songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and would become legendary with his new song " When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob ...
Swanee River may refer to: Old Folks at Home, an 1851 song often known unofficially as "Swanee River", written by Stephen Foster; Swanee River, an American film ...
The Swanee River and a Biographical Sketch of Stephen Collins Foster. Whitefish, Montana: Literary Licensing. ISBN 978-1258193980. Howard, John Tasker (March 1944). "The Literature on Stephen Foster". Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. 1 (2): 10– 15. doi:10.2307/891301. JSTOR 891301. Howard, John Tasker (1945).
The Suwanee (given as "Swanee") is the locale of the protagonist's longed-for home in two famous songs: Steven Fosters 1851 "Old Folks at Home", which is commonly called by its first line ("Way down upon the Swanee River") or just "Swanee River", [13] and George Gershwin's 1919 song "Swanee" (partly inspired by Foster's song) [14] made a #1 hit ...
Swanee River is a 1939 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart. It is a biopic about Stephen Foster , a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
The 1939 biopic about Foster Swanee River prominently features a performance of the tune by Al Jolson. A favourite in twentieth-century cartoons, [22] the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies character Foghorn Leghorn frequently hums the tune to himself in most of the 28 cartoons he appears in, produced between 1946 and 1963. [23]
"Florida, Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky" is the official anthem of the State of Florida, written and composed by Jan Hinton. [1] Originally written as a replacement for the state song, "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), it was instead designated as the state's anthem in 2008.