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Extension of a Man is the final studio album released by the R&B/soul singer Donny Hathaway on Atco Records in 1973.. The release was his last solo studio album. It is noted for including a young Stanley Clarke of Return to Forever on a couple of tracks, as well as drummer Fred White, brother to Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White, who worked with Hathaway in Chicago in the early days.
It took three years for her parents to accept the match. In time, George Swilling became owner of the plantation. When Jack Swilling was 14, the family moved from South Carolina to Georgia. Three years later he and an older brother enlisted in a mounted battalion of Georgia volunteers for service during the Mexican–American War. After the war ...
Mormon folk music mainly consisted of adaptations of popular songs, as well as of traditional folk songs from the United States and Europe. [ 5 ] : 120 Given that many early Mormon converts came from different countries and spoke different languages, music became a way of sharing and preserving one's cultural heritage, as well as a means of ...
The Deerslayer was the most successful of an early series, the Leatherstocking Tales, about pioneer life in New York. Little House on the Prairie, a century later, typified a later series of novels describing a pioneer family. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett are two real-life icons of pioneer history. [citation needed]
25 Favorite Cowboy Songs (1955) How Great Thou Art (1957) One Man's Songs (1957) This Was the West (Disneyland, 1958) – Stan Jones and the Sons of the Pioneers as The Ranger Chorus [19] Wagons West (RCA Camden, 1958) Cool Water (RCA Victor, 1960) Room Full of Roses (RCA Camden, 1960) Westward Ho! (1961) Lure of the West (1961) Tumbleweed ...
Captain Beefheart was a pioneer of art rock [24] and experimental rock. [24] [150] His music has been cited as an influence on punk rock, post-punk and new wave music, [150] and Captain Beefheart himself has sometimes been classified as a proto-punk musician. [151]
The Sons of the Pioneers first recorded the song for Decca on August 8, 1934, [8] and it enjoyed chart success that year. [9] Their 1934 recording was selected by the Library of Congress as a 2010 addition to the National Recording Registry , which selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [ 10 ]
Old American Songs are two sets of songs arranged by Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1952 respectively, after research in the Sheet Music Collection of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, in the John Hay Library at Brown University. [1] Originally scored for voice and piano, they were reworked for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and ...