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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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