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Stephen Foster

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Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music. [1]

151 relations: A Million Ways to Die in the West, Abraham Lincoln, Alison Krauss, Allegheny Cemetery, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Alms Park, American Civil War, American Experience, Angelina Baker, Athens, Pennsylvania, B movie, Bardstown, Kentucky, Beautiful Dreamer, Beautiful Dreamer (album), Bill Shirley, Billy Clanton, Black 47, Blackface, Bob Dylan, Bob Hilliard, California Gold Rush, Camptown Races, Charles Ives, Charlize Theron, Christy's Minstrels, Churchill Downs, Cincinnati, Compact disc, Composer, Dan Rice, Darmstadt, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Doc Holliday, Don Ameche, Douglas Jimerson, Douglass Montgomery, Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Evelyn Foster Morneweck, Florence Foster Jenkins, Florence Foster Jenkins (film), Florida, Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky), Frédéric Chopin, Gentle Annie (song), George Cooper (poet), Germany, Giuseppe Moretti, Good as I Been to You, Greek language, ..., Guilford School building, Hard Times Come Again No More, Harmony Lane, Henry Ford, HighBeam Research, Hillman Library, Historian, Howard Chandler Christy, Hymn, I Dream of Jeanie (film), Impresario, Jane McDowell Foster Wiley, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (anime), Jennifer Warnes, Jim Crow laws, John McMillan (missionary), John Prine, Kentucky, Latin, Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), Library of Congress, Louisville, Kentucky, Lyricist, Marion Foster Welch, Mavis Staples, Minstrel show, Morrison Foster, Mt. Pisgah State Park, My Old Kentucky Home, My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Nelson Eddy, New Orleans, New York City, Nocturne, NPR, Oh! Susanna, Old Black Joe, Old Folks at Home, Open Thy Lattice Love (song), Opera, Parlour music, Parody, Percy Grainger, Phonograph record, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Poet, Randy VanWarmer, Ray Charles, Robert Armbruster, Roger McGuinn, Ron Sexsmith, Schenley Plaza, Scrip, Seth MacFarlane, Shot Through the Heart, Songwriter, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Souvenir, Spike Jones, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Stan Freberg, Stephen C. Foster State Park, Stephen Foster (sculpture), Stephen Foster Collection and archive, Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park, Stephen Foster Handicap, Stephen Foster Memorial, Stephen Foster Memorial Day, Suwannee River, Suzy Bogguss, Swanee River (film), Sweet Baby James, Syd Straw, Technicolor, Temperance songs, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, The Bronx, The Byrds, The Glendy Burk, The Henry Ford, The Honeymooners, The New York Times, Thomas Haden Church, Thoroughbred, Title 36 of the United States Code, Tombstone (film), Towanda, Pennsylvania, Turn! Turn! Turn!, United States Navy Band, University of Pittsburgh, Val Kilmer, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, We Are Coming, Father Abra'am, White Springs, Florida, William Barclay Foster, Yo-Yo Ma, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (101 more) »

A Million Ways to Die in the West

A Million Ways to Die in the West is a 2014 American western comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane, who wrote the screenplay with Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician.

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Allegheny Cemetery

Allegheny Cemetery is one of the largest and oldest burial grounds in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Allegheny City (1788–1907) is the name of a former Pennsylvania municipality now reorganized and merged into the modern City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Alms Park

The Frederick H. Alms Memorial Park is a Cincinnati park in the community of Mt. Lookout/Columbia-Tusculum, most often called "Alms Park" for short, owned and operated by the Cincinnati Park Board.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Experience

American Experience is a television program airing on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations in the United States.

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Angelina Baker

Angelina Baker, sometimes sung as Angeline the Baker (Roud 18341) is a song written by Stephen Foster for the Christy Minstrels, and published in 1850.

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Athens, Pennsylvania

Athens is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States, located south of the New York state line on the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Bardstown, Kentucky

Bardstown is a home rule-class city in Nelson County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Beautiful Dreamer

"Beautiful Dreamer" is a parlor song by American songwriter Stephen Foster (1826–1864).

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Beautiful Dreamer (album)

Beautiful Dreamer is a compilation album comprising 18 songs originally penned by Stephen Foster.

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Bill Shirley

William Jesse "Bill" Shirley (July 6, 1921 – August 27, 1989) was an American actor and tenor/lyric baritone singer who later became a Broadway theatre producer.

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Billy Clanton

William Harrison Clanton (1862 – October 26, 1881) was an outlaw Cowboy in Cochise County, Arizona Territory.

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Black 47

Black 47 were a New York City based celtic rock band with Irish Republican sympathies, whose music also shows influence from reggae, hip hop, folk and jazz.

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Blackface

Blackface was and is a form of theatrical make-up used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a caricature of a black person.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Hilliard

Bob Hilliard (born Hilliard Goldsmith; January 28, 1918 – February 1, 1971) was an American lyricist.

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California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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Camptown Races

"Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races" (popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864).

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer.

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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron (born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and film producer.

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Christy's Minstrels

Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York.

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Churchill Downs

Churchill Downs, located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, United States, is a Thoroughbred racetrack most famous for annually hosting the Kentucky Derby.

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Cincinnati

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Dan Rice

Dan Rice (January 23, 1823 – February 22, 1900) was an American entertainer of many talents, most famously as a clown, who was pre-eminent before the American Civil War.

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Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region).

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Dear Hearts and Gentle People

"Dear Hearts and Gentle People" is a popular song published in 1949 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Bob Hilliard.

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Doc Holliday

John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp.

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Don Ameche

Don Ameche (born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor and voice artist.

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Douglas Jimerson

Douglas Jimerson is an American concert tenor and musicologist who specializes in historical and patriotic American music.

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Douglass Montgomery

Robert Douglass Montgomery (October 29, 1907 – July 23, 1966) was an American film actor.

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Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster

Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster was born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised by her deceased mother's family-the Claylands in Baltimore.

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Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Hans A. Schumann-Heink (1910-?) is her grandson, he was born out of wedlock and she raised him.

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Evelyn Foster Morneweck

Evelyn Foster Morneweck was an author and major biographer of Stephen Collins Foster.

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Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster; July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur soprano who was known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability.

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Florence Foster Jenkins (film)

Florence Foster Jenkins is a 2016 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Nicholas Martin.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)

"Florida, Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky" is the official anthem of the State of Florida.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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Gentle Annie (song)

"Gentle Annie" is a popular American song written by Stephen Foster in 1856.

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George Cooper (poet)

George Cooper (May 14, 1840, New York City – 1927) was an American poet remembered chiefly for his song lyrics, many set to music by Stephen Foster.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Giuseppe Moretti

Giuseppe Moretti (3 February 1857 – February 1935) was an Italian émigré sculptor who became known in the United States for his public monuments in bronze and marble.

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Good as I Been to You

Good as I Been to You is the 28th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on November 3, 1992, by Columbia Records.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Guilford School building

Guilford School is a historic former schoolhouse, now housing commercial offices, on the east side of Downtown Cincinnati at 421 E 4th Street.

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Hard Times Come Again No More

"Hard Times Come Again No More" (sometimes, "Hard Times") is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster.

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Harmony Lane

Harmony Lane is a 1935 low-budget American film directed by Joseph Santley, based upon the life of Stephen Foster, released by Mascot Pictures.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

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HighBeam Research

HighBeam Research is a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.

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Hillman Library

Hillman Library is the largest library and the center of administration for the University Library System (ULS) of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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Howard Chandler Christy

Howard Chandler Christy (January 10, 1872 – March 3, 1952) was an American artist and illustrator, famous for the "Christy Girl" – a colorful and illustrious successor to the "Gibson Girl" – who became the most popular portrait painter of the Jazz Age era.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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I Dream of Jeanie (film)

I Dream of Jeanie is a 1952 American historical musical film based on the songs and life of Stephen Foster who wrote the song "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" from which the title is taken.

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Impresario

An impresario (from the Italian impresa, "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer.

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Jane McDowell Foster Wiley

Jane Denny McDowell Foster Wiley was born December 10, 1829.

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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864).

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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (anime)

is an anime series produced by Nippon Animation which ran for 52 episodes on Japanese TV in 1992–1993.

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Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer.

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Jim Crow laws

Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

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John McMillan (missionary)

John McMillan (1752–1833) was a prominent Presbyterian minister and missionary in Western Pennsylvania when that area was part of the American Frontier.

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John Prine

John Prine (born October 10, 1946) is an American country folk singer-songwriter.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh)

Lawrenceville is one of the largest neighborhood areas in Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

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Lyricist

A lyricist or lyrist is a person who writes lyrics—words for songs—as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's melody.

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Marion Foster Welch

Marion Foster (April 18, 1851 – July 9, 1935) was the only child of composer Stephen Collins Foster and, together with her daughter Jessie Rose, was the caretaker of the Stephen S. Foster Memorial Home located at 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1914 until her death in 1935.

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Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.

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Morrison Foster

Morrison Foster (June 10, 1823May 14, 1904) was the older brother, business agent and biographer for Stephen Foster, a composer and lyricist of early American music.

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Mt. Pisgah State Park

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My Old Kentucky Home

"My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" is an anti-slavery ballad originally written by Stephen Foster, (probably) composed in 1852.

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My Old Kentucky Home State Park

My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky.

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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1970 by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc.

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Nelson Eddy

Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nocturne

A nocturne (from the French which meant nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus) is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Oh! Susanna

"Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), first published in 1848.

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Old Black Joe

"Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864).

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Old Folks at Home

"Old Folks at Home" (also known as "Swanee River", "Swanee Ribber", or "Suwannee River") is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851.

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Open Thy Lattice Love (song)

Open Thy Lattice Love was a song composed by Stephen Foster on February 1, 1844 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Parlour music

Parlour music is a type of popular music which, as the name suggests, is intended to be performed in the parlours of middle-class homes by amateur singers and pianists.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Percy Grainger

George Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Randy VanWarmer

Randy VanWarmer (March 30, 1955 – January 12, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Robert Armbruster

Robert Armbruster (October 9, 1897 – June 20, 1994) was a Philadelphia-born American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith (born 8 January 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario.

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Schenley Plaza

Schenley Plaza is a public park serving as the grand entrance into Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Scrip

A scrip (or chit in India) is any substitute for legal tender.

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Seth MacFarlane

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and singer, working primarily in animation and comedy, as well as live-action and other genres.

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Shot Through the Heart

Shot Through the Heart is a 1998 television film directed by David Attwood, shown on the BBC and HBO in 1998, which covers the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work represents and maintains the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Souvenir

A souvenir (from French, for a remembrance or memory), memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance is an object a person acquires for the memories the owner associates with it.

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Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in satirical arrangements of popular songs and classical music.

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Squirrel Nut Zippers

Squirrel Nut Zippers is an American jazz band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by James "Jimbo" Mathus (vocals and guitar), Tom Maxwell (vocals and guitar), Katharine Whalen (vocals, banjo, ukulele), Chris Phillips (drums), Don Raleigh (bass guitar), and Ken Mosher.

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Stan Freberg

Stan Freberg (born Stanley Friberg; August 7, 1926 – April 7, 2015) was an American author, actor, recording artist, voice artist, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director, whose career began in 1944.

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Stephen C. Foster State Park

Stephen C. Foster State Park is an state park located in the Okefenokee Swamp in Charlton County, Georgia.

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Stephen Foster (sculpture)

Stephen Foster is a landmark public sculpture in bronze by Giuseppe Moretti formerly located on Schenley Plaza in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Stephen Foster Collection and archive

The Stephen Foster Collection and archives are the largest collection of primary source materials on the life and work of Stephen Foster.

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Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park is a Florida State Park located in White Springs off U.S. 41, along the Suwannee River in north Florida.

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Stephen Foster Handicap

The Stephen Foster Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid-June near the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Stephen Foster Memorial

The Stephen Collins Foster Memorial is a performing arts center and museum which houses the Stephen Foster Archives at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Stephen Foster Memorial Day

Stephen Foster Memorial Day is a United States Federal Observance Day observed on January 13.

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Suwannee River

The Suwannee River (also spelled Suwanee River) is a major river that runs through South Georgia southward into Florida in the southern United States.

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Suzy Bogguss

Susan Kay Bogguss (born December 30, 1956) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Swanee River (film)

Swanee River is a 1939 American film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart.

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Sweet Baby James

Sweet Baby James is the second album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records.

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Syd Straw

Syd Straw is an American rock singer and songwriter.

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Technicolor

Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.

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Temperance songs

Temperance songs are those musical compositions that were sung and performed to promote the American Temperance Movement from the 1840s to the 1920s.

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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends is the blanket title for an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Glendy Burk

The Glendy Burk is an American folk song by Stephen Foster.

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The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute) is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, United States.

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The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners is an American television sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason, based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of his variety show.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Thomas Haden Church

Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard McMillen, June 17, 1960) is an American actor, director, and writer.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Title 36 of the United States Code

Title 36 of the United States Code outlines the role of Patriotic Societies and Observances in the United States Code.

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Tombstone (film)

Tombstone is a 1993 American Western film directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre (who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production), and starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, as well as narration by Robert Mitchum.

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Towanda, Pennsylvania

Towanda is a borough and the county seat of Bradford County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Turn! Turn! Turn!

"Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.

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United States Navy Band

The United States Navy Band, based at the historic Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., has served the United States of America as the official musical organization of the United States Navy since 1925.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.

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Washington & Jefferson College

Washington & Jefferson College, also known as W & J College or W&J, is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States, which is south of Pittsburgh.

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Washington, Pennsylvania

Washington is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Greater Pittsburgh Region in the southwestern part of the state.

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We Are Coming, Father Abra'am

"We Are Coming, Father Abra'am", is a poem written by James S. Gibbons, set to music by eight different composers, including Stephen Foster.

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White Springs, Florida

White Springs is a town in Hamilton County, Florida, United States, on the Suwannee River.

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William Barclay Foster

William Barclay Foster (1779 - 1855) was the father of Stephen Foster and a notable businessman in his time.

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Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster

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