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Stephen
Foster Medley of Songs From Gone With The Wind
Includes Old Folks At Home, Jeannie With The
Light Brown Hair,
In My Old Kentucky Home, and Beautiful Dreamer
A page and custom MIDI file designed in 1999,
to commemorate the 60th anniversary
of the premiere of David O. Selznick's film
Gone With The Wind in Atlanta, December 1939
Katy
Bell
(1863)
Utterly delicious, fun romantic song for male
voices,
with a catchy melody
MIDI
Wilt
Thou Be Gone Love?
(1851)
An exquisitely beautiful duet for male - female
voices
MIDI
Sweetly
She Sings, My Alice Fair
(1851)
Words by Charles G. Eastman
A great solo for the baritone voice; such
a pretty melody!
MIDI
Ah!
May The Red Rose Live Alway
(1850)
So many songs written about red roses!!
This one is my absolute favorite, the melody
is sublimely beautiful.
"Dedicated to Miss Mary M. Dallas", she must
have been a very special woman.
Don't miss this one.
MIDI
Summer
Longings
(1849)
Soprano solo ballad, one can actually feel
the pain of the person singing the lyrics
as they long for
winter's end, and for the glories of summer
to begin.
MIDI
Where
Is Thy Spirit, Mary?
(1847)
Beautiful ballad for medium male (tenor) voice
MIDI
TWO SONGS ABOUT CHILDREN
Beautiful
Child Of Song
(1860)
This lovely song has a more modern feeling
to it I think,
then some of Stephen's other ballads. Subject
is the
praise of the charms of young people's voices
lifted in song
MIDI
Slumber,
My Darling
"A Favorite Lullaby"
(1862)
Beautiful melody on this enchanting lullaby
MIDI
Mary
Loves The Flowers
(1850)
Another beautiful Stephen Foster song, with
eloquent lyrics
that conjur up images of a world that has
disappeared.
MIDI
Gentle
Annie
(1856)
Lovely, bittersweet ballad as only Mr. Foster
could write
I love the way the pre-Civil war song writers
wrote about women;
pre-feminist movement women were elevated
onto pedestals like this;
it was sooooo nice!
MIDI
Why
No One To Love?
(1862)
Stephen Foster composed this tune as an answer-song
to a mournful ballad
written by Ellen Clementine and M.H. Frank,
entitled "No One to Love."
MIDI
If
You've Only Got A Moustache
(1862 Comic Song)
Lyric written by George Cooper
Music written by Stephen Foster
I confess I giggled hysterically while creating
this song page;
for some reason it reminds me of The Barber
of Seville.
MIDI
Nothing
But A Plain Old Soldier
(1863)
Lyrics and Music by Stephen Foster
Written during the Civil War, when the outcome
was uncertain,
this fantastic song for the male voice tells
the story of a Revolutionary War
soldier who looks at the current military
campaigns for both North and South
and finds them sadly lacking compared to
the great battles he took part in.
MIDI
Oh
Susanna
(1848)
MIDI
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