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"Deep River" has been sung in several films. The 1929 film Show Boat featured it mouthed by Laura La Plante to the singing of Eva Olivetti. [ 4 ] Paul Robeson famously sang it accompanied by a male chorus in the 1940 movie The Proud Valley , [ 5 ] and Chevy Chase sang it in the 1983 blockbuster hit National Lampoon's Vacation .
The "Deep Elm Blues" (also spelled "Deep Elem Blues" or "Deep Ellum Blues" [1]) is an American traditional song.The title of the tune refers to the historical African-American neighborhood in downtown Dallas, Texas known as Deep Ellum, which was home to blues musicians including Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely.
[17] [18]: 169 Rachel Blau DuPlessis argues that part of the poem reinterprets Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo", by portraying the Congo River as "a pastoral nourishing, maternal setting." [13] Hughes references the spiritual "Deep River" in the line "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." [8] The poem was also influenced by Walt Whitman. [8]
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. [1] He won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Muddy Waters' place and date of birth are not conclusively known. He stated that he was born in 1915 at Rolling Fork in Sharkey County, Mississippi, but other evidence suggests that he was born in the unincorporated community of Jug's Corner, in neighboring Issaquena County, in 1913. [8]
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This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Read the full lyrics to Miley Cyrus’ new song 'River' here.