Camptown Races

Stephen Foster was born ont his day in 1826.

He also composed “Oh! Susanna”, “Old Folks at Home” (“Swanee River”), “Hard Times Come Again No More”, “My Old Kentucky Home”, “Old Black Joe”, and “Beautiful Dreamer”.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 4th, 2010 at 5:14 pm and is filed under music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to Camptown Races

  1. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    04/07/2010 at 6:42 pm

    I told Nik that Stephen Foster was as great a song writer as Cole Porter, John Lennon or Paul McCartney in his time.

    He looked at me and said oh yeah then why are his songs so corny –

    I said they weren’t when they were new they were fresh and vibrant and it is a measure of their fundamental merit that they have survived until this day and that you know them and everybody else knows them.

    He still doesn’t believe me but it so.

    The man died in poverty by the way which is kind of sad.

    Like

Leave a comment