Performed by various artists from original editions and modern arrangements and
For streaming examples
at
"click here."
Tracks:
I. Songs of Liberty and Protest
1. My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (1759) -
words: Thomas Parnell/ music: Francis Hopkinson
(First American song) -- read about this song: click here
2. The Liberty Song (1768) -- words: John Dickinson/
tune: HEART OF OAK,
arranged by William A. Fisher
3. Brave America (aka: Free America, 1770) -- words: Joseph Warren/
tune: BRITISH GRENADIERS
II. The American Revolution
4. Father and I went down to camp (1776) -- words: original version
by Edward Bangs/
tune: YANKEE DOODLE, arr. William A. Fisher
Listening example --
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5. Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier (ballad)
6. Doodle Dandy (ballad)
7. Chester -- words & music by William Billings, 1778
8. Hymn of Thanksgiving (ca. 1783) --
tune: KITTERY by William Billings
III. The U.S. Constitution and Federalism
9. U.S. Constitution Song (1788) -- tune: YANKEE DOODLE,
arr. Roger L. Hall
- FIRST RECORDING
10. Ode to President George Washington (1789) -- words: Samuel Low/
tune: GOD SAVE THE KING, arr. William A. Fisher - FIRST RECORDING
11. The President's March-Hail, Columbia-Rights of Conscience (1794-1810) -
FIRST RECORDING
12. Adams and Liberty (1798) -- words: Thomas R.T. Paine/
tune: TO ANACREON
IV. New England Singing Masters
13. Coronation (1793) - music: Oliver Holden
For streaming example: click here
14. New Jerusalem (1796) -- music: Jeremiah Ingalls
15. Dormant (1802) -- music: Jacob French
V. War of 1812
16. The Star Spangled Banner (1814) -- words: Francis Scott Key/
tune: TO ANACREON
- FIRST RECORDING of 19th century choral setting
17. The Hunters of Kentucky (ballad, ca. 1814)
18. Patriotic Diggers (ballad, ca. 1814)
VI. Folk Songs, Patriotism and Sentimental Songs
19. The Erie Canal (ballad) -- date unknown
20. Buffalo Gals (ballad) -- attributed to "Cool White"
21. My Country 'Tis Of Thee (1831) -- words: Samuel Francis Smith/
tune: GOD SAVE THE KING
22. Get Off The Track (1844) -- The Hutchinson Family
(Emancipation song)
23.Simple Gifts (1848) -- Elder Joseph Brackett
(Shaker dance song edited by Roger Hall) -- FIRST RECORDING
More information about this Shaker song -- click here
24. Gentle Annie (1856) -- words & music: Stephen C. Foster
25. Dixie's Land (or Dixie)(1859) -- words & music: Daniel D. Emmett
A favorite song of President Abraham Lincoln
America's Singing History
Volume 2, 1860-1959
No. 2 - for streaming listening -- click here
Performed by various artists
including some of the popular songwriters.
Tracks:
I. The Civil War
1. Lincoln and Liberty (1860 campaign song)
2. Two Songs, Same Tune: John Brown (1861) -
for more about this song - click here
and Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862) - for more - click here
FIRST RECORDING of these original versions
3. A Prayer For The Captive (1862) -- Sister Cecilia DeVere,
edited by Roger L. Hall (Shaker pacifist hymn) - FIRST RECORDING
4. Go Down, Moses (ca. 1862) -- Afro-American spiritual
-- for streaming example: click here
5. When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1863) --
words & music by Patrick S. Gilmore
II. The 1870s and 1880s
6. Home On The Range (1873)
7. Grandfather's Clock (1878) -- words & music by Henry Clay Work
III. The 1890s
8. Waltz (1894) -- words & music by Charles E. Ives
9. On The Banks Of The Wabash (1897) -- words & music:
Paul Dreisser
IV. Rise of Tin Pan Alley
10. George M. Cohan medley (4 songs, 1906-1917) --
rare recording with singing of George M. Cohan in 1940
11. Swanee (1919) -- words: Irving Caesar/ music by George Gershwin
V. The 1920s
12. My Blue Heaven (1927) -- words: George Whiting/
music: Walter Donaldson
13. Star Dust (1927/1929) -- played and sung by Hoagy Carmichael
VI. The Great Depression
14. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (1932) -- words: E.Y. Harburg/
music: Jay Gorney
15. The Last Round-Up (1933) -- words & music: Billy Hill
VII. World War II Era
16. God Bless America (1938) -- words & music by Irving Berlin -
sung by Irving Berlin
from a radio program
17. All The Things You Are (1939) - words: Oscar Hammerstein II/
music: Jerome Kern - sung by Tony Martin, accompanied by Jerome Kern
18. I'll Never Smile Again (1940) -- words & music: Ruth Lowe
19. Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941) -- words: Mack Gordon/
music: Harry Warren
20. Ac-cent-tchuate The Positive (1945) -- words: Johnny Mercer/
music: Harold Arlen -
sung by Johnny Mercer from a radio program
VIII. Post War Popular Songs
21. Mona Lisa (1950) -- words & music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
22. Cold, Cold Heart (1951) -- words & music by Hank Williams Sr.
IX. Youth Revolution
23. Sincerely (1955) -- words & music by Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed
24. Aura Lea (1861) and Love Me Tender (1956) -
arranged by Ken Darby (not by Elvis Presley or Vera Matson)
- for more information - click here
X. From Pop to Presidential
25. High Hopes (1959) - words: Sammy Cahn/ music: James Van Heuasen
- Oscar winning song from A HOLE IN THE HEAD
also used as a campaign song for President John F. Kennedy.
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