| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
"Notes on the Songs": p. 382. |
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Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
I. Old Colony Times And The New Nation. Old hundredth -- Greensleeves -- Froggie went a-courtin' -- Over the hills and far away -- Sally in our alley -- Barb'ra Allen -- Sweet is the budding Spring of love -- The Liberty song -- Yankee Doodle -- Bunker Hill (The American hero) -- Chester -- Enraptured I gaze -- The Women all tell me -- Drink to me only with thine eyes -- The Girl I left behind -- Hail, Columbia (The President's march) -- The lass of Richmond Hill -- Coronation (All hail the power of Jesus' name) -- Auld lang syne -- The Star Spangled Banner -- Old Colony Times -- America (My country 'tis of thee) -- The Hunters of Kentucky -- Last week I took a wife (cobbler's song from "The Forty Thieves"). |
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II. Pioneers - Minstrels - Parlor Pianists. Home, sweet home -- Woodman, spare that tree -- Springfield Mountain (The pesky sarpent) -- Poor wayfaring stranger -- Amazing grace -- Wondrous love -- Blow the man down -- Shenandoah -- Jump Jim Crow -- Long tail blue -- Turkey in the straw (Old zip coon) -- Old Dan Tucker -- The blue tail fly -- For he's a jolly good fellow (We won't go home until morning) (The bear went over the mountain) -- My faith looks up to thee -- Rock of ages -- Old rosin the beau (Acres of clams) -- Cape Ann (from the repertory of The Hutchinson Family) -- Long, long ago -- Peter Gray -- Buffalo gals -- Gaily the troubadour -- Ho! Westward Ho! -- The old oaken bucket -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Hush little baby -- Cindy -- Wait for the wagon -- There's music in the air -- Little brown jug -- Pop! Goes the weasel -- Lilly Dale -- Kiss me quick and go -- Jingle bells -- Rosalie, the prairie flower -- Listen to the mocking bird -- The Erie Canal -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Oh! Susanna -- Old folks at home -- My old Kentucky home -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Beautiful dreamer. |
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III. Battle Cries, Heart-Throbs and High-Jinks, Vaudeville Tunes, Spirituals, Rags. Dixie -- The battle hymn of the Republic/John Brown's body -- The bonnie blue flag -- Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! -- Tenting tonight (Tenting on the old camp ground) -- When Johnny comes marching home -- Aura Lee -- When you and I were young, Maggie -- The big sunflower -- Sweet Genevieve -- You naughty, naughty men (from "The Black Crook") -- Grandfather's clock -- Kingdom coming (Year of Jubilo) -- Champagne Charlie -- Silver threads among the gold -- In the gloaming -- Captain jinks -- The Mulligan guard -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- The man on the flying trapeze -- Walking for that cake -- Baby mine -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- Swing low sweet chariot -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- The gospel train (Get on board, little children) -- Look down that lonesome road -- While strolling through the park -- Love's old sweet song -- There is a tavern in the town -- Red River Valley -- The Cowboy's lament (The streets of Laredo) -- Home on the range -- The yellow rose of Texas -- Li'l Liza Jane -- Frankie and Johnny -- Ta-ra-ra Boom-der-e -- The flowers that bloom in the Spring (from "The Mikado") -- Prayer of Thanksgiving -- After the ball -- The bully song -- Clementine -- Daisy Bell (A bicycle built for two) -- The sidewalks of New York -- The bank played on -- There'll be a hot time -- The sweetest story ever told -- At a Georgia camp meeting -- Maple leaf rag (song version). |
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IV. From Tin Pan Alley To Main Street, "Even Pop Can Play the Pianola". A bird in a gilded cage -- On the banks of the Wabash, far away -- The rosary -- I love you truly -- My wild Irish rose -- Mighty Lak' a rose -- My gal Sal -- Under the bamboo tree -- Bill Bailey, won't you please come home -- Hello, ma baby -- In the good old Summertime -- Oh promise me -- Because -- Wait till the sun shines, Nellie -- Ida, sweet as apple cider -- Kiss me again (from "Mlle. Modiste") -- Toyland (from "Babes in Toyland") -- Because you're you (from "The Red Mill") -- Glow worm -- The Yankee Doodle boy (from "Little Johnny Jones") -- Mary's a grand old name (from "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway") -- At dawning -- Give my regards to Broadway (from "Little Johnny Jones") -- A perfect day -- By the waters of Minnetonka -- For me and my gal -- Saint Louis blues -- Short'nin' bread -- The boll weevil song -- You're in the army now -- Mademoiselle from Armentieres (Hinky dinky, parlay-voo) -- I've been working on the railroad -- She'll be comin' round the mountain. |
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V. The Heyday of American Melody, The Great White Way, The Airwaves, Folkways. Tea for two (from "No No Nanette") -- Ol' man river (from "Show Boat") -- I love life -- I can't give you anything but love -- My heart stood still (from "A Connecticut Yankee") -- Embraceable you (from "Girl Crazy") -- Star dust -- I've got the world on a string -- Night and day (from "Gay Divorcee") -- All the things you are (from "Very Warm for May") -- God Bless America -- The Marines' Hymn -- The Caissons go rolling along -- June is bustin' out all over (from "Carousel") -- Once in love with Amy (from "Where's Charley?") -- So in Love (from "Kiss Me, Kate") -- Careless love -- When the saints come marching in -- On top of old Smoky -- Down in the valley -- Paper of pins -- Tom Dooley -- Seventy six trombones (from "The Music Man") -- He's got the whole world in his hands -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- The riddle song (I gave my love a cherry) -- Wabash cannonball -- We shall overcome -- Wildwood flower -- Scarborough fair -- The impossible dream (from "Man of La Mancha") -- Notes on the songs -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines. |
| Bibliography |
Includes indexes. |
| Subject |
Songs, English -- United States.
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Songs, English. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs.
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Songs.
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Notated music.
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Notated music.
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| Added Author |
Lonette, Reisie, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Agay, Denes. Best loved songs of the American people. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975 (OCoLC)639776967 |
| ISBN |
0385000049 : $14.95 |
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9780385000048 |
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0385140061 |
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9780385140065 |
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