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It launched his career [21] [22] as his first song, [23] becoming one of his best-known and most-sung. [24] [4] Rorem would continue to set poetry by Goodman to song throughout his career. [25] [26] [4] [27] Vocalists Susan Graham [28] [29] and Nathan Gunn have recorded performances of "The Lordly Hudson".
Carmichael noted J.B.'s name in the song's sheet music as the author of the poem that inspired the lyrics, and asked for help to identify "J.B.". However, it wasn't until the mid-1950s that a positive identification was made. Jane Brown Thompson died the night before the song was introduced on radio by Dick Powell. [1]
Paul Verlaine's "Dansons La Gigue" is performed by Patricia Barber on her album Verse. The album Music Through Heartsongs is a collection of poetry by Mattie Stepanek, performed by Billy Gilman; John Denver performed "The Box" Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" has been recorded by Jean-Jacques Burnel
Sung poetry is a broad and imprecise music genre widespread in European countries, such as Poland and the Baltic States especially Poland and Lithuania, to describe songs consisting of a poem (most often a ballad) and music written especially for that text. The compositions usually feature a delicate melody and scarce musical background, often ...
The title is mentioned in the lyrics of the Paul Francis Webster's song "It's Harry I'm Planning to Marry" (from the 1953 Warner Bros. musical Calamity Jane), despite the fact that it is set in Deadwood, 1876, which actually predates the poem by some 11 years. The song is delivered by the character Katie Brown (Allyn McLerie), who sings:
Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems, Archipelago, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Leslie Scalapino, Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems & Writings 1989 & 1999–2006 (Green Integer) Grace Schulman, The Broken String [9] W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted, New Directions; David Shapiro, New and Selected Poems, 1965–2006 (Overlook Press)
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Multiple recordings of the song were made by Paul Robeson, starting in 1926. [6] Mahalia Jackson recorded the song for her album Bless This House in 1956. [7] Bessie Griffin and The Gospel Pearls recorded the song on their Portraits in Bronze album in 1960. [8] [9] Odetta performed the song at Carnegie Hall on April 8, 1960.