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[6] In 1934, Joe Young, Jean Schwartz, and Joe Ager wrote "In a Little Red Barn (On a Farm Down in Indiana)", which not only incorporated all the same key words and phrases above, but whose chorus had the same harmonic structure as "Indiana". In this respect it was a contrafact of the latter.
Jim Nabors performed "Back Home Again in Indiana" before the start of the race nearly every year from 1972 to 2014. 2011 Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon celebrating with a bottle of milk in victory lane. Due to the longevity of the Indianapolis 500, numerous traditions surrounding the race have developed over the years. Traditions include ...
Well-known examples of contrafacts in jazz include the Charlie Parker/Miles Davis bop tune "Donna Lee," which uses the chord changes of the standard "Back Home Again in Indiana" [2] or Thelonious Monk's jazz standard [3] "Evidence", which borrows the chord progression from Jesse Greer and Raymond Klages's song "Just You, Just Me" (1929). [4]
Theodore Dreiser claimed "Back Home Again in Indiana" drew too much from the state song, composed by his brother, and he wanted those parts deleted. Before "Back Home Again" became an Indy 500 ...
For many Hoosiers, the lyrics of returning home to Indiana were especially meaningful. Watch Jim Cornelison sing '(Back Home Again in) Indiana' at 2022 Indy 500 Skip to main content
Although "On the Banks of Wabash, Far Away" is Indiana's official song, "Back Home Again in Indiana" is more widely used and is falsely believed by many to be the state song. [44] One of the leading causes of the state song's fall into obscurity was a change in its use at the Indianapolis 500 during the 1940s. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far ...
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement.Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition.
Six words on Collins’ list of 10 words of the year are new to CollinsDictionary.com, including “permacrisis”, despite being first noted in academic contexts from the 1970s.