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2nd South Carolina String Band
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THE GLENDY BURKE
This 1860 Stephen Foster 'plantation melody' was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. The song’s title is derived from the name of a 425 ton side-wheel packet steamer, the “Glendy Burke.” She was owned by the Vicksburg, Mississippi firm of Cobb & Nanlove, and plied the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. This paddle wheeler was built by the Howard Shipyards of Jeffersonville, Indiana, launched in 1851, and sank in 1855, near Cairo, Illinois. It has been speculated that Foster wrote this song in 1851, but did not have it published until 1860.
The boat was named for a prominent merchant, banker, legislator, and future Mayor of New Orleans, Glen D. Burke. Stephen Foster was familiar with this wealthy figure as his brother Morrison had business dealings with Burke in the 1840’s. Foster’s song about the steamboat is but one of a multitude of antebellum pieces that deal with America’s fascination with river-borne trade and transportation, and the often larger-than-life characters to be found there.
Foster was no stranger to paddle wheelers. In 1846, he moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work as a bookkeeper with his brother Dunning’s steamship company. Riverboats stoked their engines with timber. The song’s second verse states, “They burn the pitch and the pine knot too, for to shove the boat along.” These two conifer products are high in resin, burn at a high temperature, and raise the engine’s steam pressure. This was a common method used by boatmen to increase the ship’s speed and “shove the boat along.”
Interestingly, Stephen Foster never lived in the South and only visited it once. In 1852, he and his wife, Jane took a trip down the Mississippi River on board his brother’s steamboat, “Millinger,” to visit and enjoy the city of New Orleans.
The boat was named for a prominent merchant, banker, legislator, and future Mayor of New Orleans, Glen D. Burke. Stephen Foster was familiar with this wealthy figure as his brother Morrison had business dealings with Burke in the 1840’s. Foster’s song about the steamboat is but one of a multitude of antebellum pieces that deal with America’s fascination with river-borne trade and transportation, and the often larger-than-life characters to be found there.
Foster was no stranger to paddle wheelers. In 1846, he moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work as a bookkeeper with his brother Dunning’s steamship company. Riverboats stoked their engines with timber. The song’s second verse states, “They burn the pitch and the pine knot too, for to shove the boat along.” These two conifer products are high in resin, burn at a high temperature, and raise the engine’s steam pressure. This was a common method used by boatmen to increase the ship’s speed and “shove the boat along.”
Interestingly, Stephen Foster never lived in the South and only visited it once. In 1852, he and his wife, Jane took a trip down the Mississippi River on board his brother’s steamboat, “Millinger,” to visit and enjoy the city of New Orleans.
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JENNY GET YOUR HOECAKE DONE
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Pvt. John Dinkins, Co.C, 18th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, described the march toward Sharpsburg in September of 1862, of McLaw's Division, which included Co. I, 2nd South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. Dinkins recalled, "The men moved along at a lively gait. As night came on, we sang all kinds of plantation songs, 'Rock the Cradle, Julie', 'Sallie, Get Your Hoecake Done', 'I'm Gwying Down the...
MCLEOD'S REEL
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First referred to as “Miss MacLeod’s Reel” by a foreigner visiting Connacht, Ireland, in 1779, who wrote about taking part in a dance where the prize was a cake, or possibly heard as one of several pieces played by pipers in Galway. Either way, the tune stuck and became better known as simply “McLeod’s Reel.” It was especially popular with the Scottish and Irish colonial settlers of the North C...
McCLEOD’S REEL & ZIP COON - A Dance Medley
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This tune and a number of others we’ll be releasing in the coming weeks and months, was recorded at the 150th Anniversary Battle of Gettysburg Reenactment in early July of 2013. It is late Saturday afternoon. We will soon be playing for the Camp Dance, which will last for 3 hours that evening. We have been ‘on site’ since the previous Wednesday morning, setting up our camp and performance area,...
KINGDOM COMING
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"Kingdom Coming" (a.k.a. "Year of Jubilo"), words and music by Henry Clay Work (1832-1884), published by Chicago's George Root & Cady in 1862, became one of the most popular and memorable songs to emerge during the American Civil War. Though the song is decidedly pro-Union, it was often heard being played in both camps. Derisively sung from the perspective of his slaves, the lyrics tell of thei...
BUFFALO GALS
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Now literally 'world-famous', the song known as "Buffalo Gals" is generally credited to one John Hodges (1821-1891), whose minstrel-stage character was called "Cool White." However, that name is only its last name, established after its 1848 publishing by the minstrel group, the Ethiopian Serenaders. It had also seen published versions under the title "Lubly Fan", by Hodges/'Cool White' in 1844...
OH, I'M A GOOD OLD REBEL
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The melody of this song was borrowed from a pre-war minstrel tune, "Joe Bowers". The words are of a somewhat obscure origin; published in 1867, credit for the lyrics was given to one Major Innes Randolph, a Virginia Confederate and "cultivated Southerner of letters", who served under J.E.B. Stuart. A cultivated Southerner he may have been, but a more bitter, venomous statement of the emotions f...
THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS
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Ranked as one of the top 100 western songs ever written, this successful minstrel song, dating to the early 1850's, first appeared in 1853 Philadelphia, in a collection of minstrel songs titled, "Christy's Plantation Melodies No. 2", but without musical notation or naming the writer. Later, in 1858, it was published by Firth, Pond & Co., of New York city, this time with revised lyrics, a piano ...
SOUTHERN SOLDIER & DIXIE'S LAND at Cedar Creek in 2016
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Over the years we've played for many barn dances and dress balls, often to hundreds and even thousands of soldiers and their ladies, not to mention Robert Duvall and the cast of Gods and Generals. But our favorite events have always been small, intimate evening concerts around the campfire that remind us of our origins as a group of infantrymen, entertaining our brother soldiers after a long, h...
CINDY
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CINDY - Traditional The Appalachian folk melody was a favorite of mountain fiddlers and banjo players known as “The Gospel Train (Get on Board)”. “Cindy”, also known as “Get Along Home, Cindy”, using the tune from “The Gospel Train”, first appears as a North Carolina folk song in a book of collected folk tales by Anne Virginia Culbertson, published in 1904, called “At the Big House - where Aunt...
CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA
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“De Floating Scow of Old Virginia” was composed by Charles White of “White’s Serenaders,” a minstrel band that performed primarily in New York City. The song was published in 1847 by Lee & Walker of Philadelphia, PA. and became a national hit. After the Battle of Sharpsburg, MD (Antietam) General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia started to return across the Potomac River to Virginia. As some of ...
CAMPTOWN RACES (1850) ~ Words and music by Stephen Foster
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This nonsense song ranks with "Oh! Susanna" as one of Foster's best. Not especially popular in its early days, "Camptown Races" earned Foster royalties of only $101.25 in its first seven years (representing a total sales of 5,000 copies at two cents apiece). Debuted by the ubiquitous Christy Minstrels in 1850, it didn’t take long before it became a staple of other minstrel groups throughout the...
SOLDIER'S JOY | ROCK THE CRADLE, JULIE
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Pvt. John Dinkins, Co.C, 18th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, described the march of McLaw's Division of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia - which included Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade - toward Sharpsburg MD, and the Battle of Antietam, in September of 1862. Dinkins recalled: "The men moved along at a lively gait. As night came on, we sang all kinds of plantation songs, 'Rock the Cradle, Juli...
ROSE OF ALABAMA
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Published in 1846, by G.P. Reed of Boston, and is credited as follows on the original sheet music: “Words by S.S. Steele, sung by A.F. Winnemore & His Band of Serenaders.” The song became popular among the thousands of fortune-hunters heading to California looking to strike it rich during the 1849 Gold Rush. “The Rose of Alabama” lyrics tell a light, good humored tale about a banjo-playing youn...
THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG
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The Bonnie Blue Flag The flag itself - a single white 5-point star on a dark blue field - first appeared in 1810 as the banner of the 'Republic of West Florida', but was quickly ushered off history's stage by the Louisiana Purchase after hardly 3 months. Some years after, another version reappeared, representing the 'Republic of Texas', in late 1836. The 'Bonnie Blue Flag' cheered in the song, ...
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who thought this will be Adriano Chelentano song too? lol
My dad is in a band that plays similar music like this.
No matter what I'm doing, when this Band pop's up, I STOP everything to listen to it / Thanks for posting this Great music!!
Dixie will never fade away!
This song warms the blood !
Hooray to Dixie! God bless southern states! God bless Confederate!
great music from colombia SC :D
I really love your music this is my very favorite song i play the song everyday I got my girlfriend to like to even if it was new to her I did not force her too I just wanted her listen to if she would like and now she does
Claps from Brazil… great..👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The history of the “name”.. Dixie”.. is so profound.. A year before the war,.the song was written when the writer was holding a “dying “black aged slave…that wanted to go home …living in the north.. in 1860.. It became so popular in the south it was played during Jeff Davis’ inauguration…
Great music and the glorious stars and bars in the background....awesome.
I love these guys. Great music and excellent performers.
Awesome! What talent. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧
Bravo! greetings from Poland !
Awesome hi from Pennsylvania. God bless😊
07/24 love from Sweden!
Super great music by the finest group. Keep em coming.
I remember when I went to Blackburn on a school trip in 1984 and I saw a confederate flag for the first time on an old mill. The teacher told me that England helped support the confederates in their war because we depended on cotton so much. I’ve been back since and the mill is gone now and there’s hardly any mills left but I thought it was worth mentioning. They used to say britains bread hangs by Lancashires thread.😂🇬🇧🇺🇸
Rebel Yell!!!!!
Me encanta. ❤ ¡Viva Luisiana! Saludos desde Valencia,España,🇪🇸. Tocad Bandera azul de Bonnie de Texas. Sois los mejores. Me gustaría oiros tocar en directo algún día. ❤
WOW! Beautiful !!
Bravo
A great performance of a great American song! With Stephen Foster coming from Pittsburgh, you’d think he’d be more popular up here, but unfortunately it seems he’s mostly forgotten. But as a Pittsburgher, I won’t ever forget about him nor his great melodies. Well done gentlemen!
Happy 4th of July. God bless America!!! Un saluto dall'Italia. ❤️❤️❤️💕🇮🇹🌈🇺🇲💕❤️❤️❤️
Gotta get some youth involved in the re-enactor hobby.. otherwise it is (unfortunately) headed for extinction.
The guy who wrote this so g in 1867 was pissed off.
Nice! I appreciate folks keeping old music like this alive and I hope to see more! Terrific performance!
Losers
Just like the American Indians
Q errar Q bush
Great song! Thank you so much!
oh guy , play well !😊
Leave irish ballads to the irish please.
Nice
3:05 start
Just great! Fine playing and singing. And the information adds to our appreciation. Best wishes for more great playing!
Oh how I wish I could go back and see yall live! God bless and thank you for the music and memories!
Good job
Greetings from Europe. Gentlemen, excellent!
Супер!!! ❤❤❤
Gents. Fabulous song! Really enjoyed it. Whilst I understand the reasons why, it is sad that you are not performs live anymore. So,,,,,,, how about a one off episode of what you each are doing now??? Regards from the UK. Bob
Hi, Neighbors! A-PLUS as usual! Stay as worn as you can. I'know it's hotter there than here. Distinguished looking outfit! God Bless Yall from barely across the line!
You guys are so friggin epic
You guys are so friggin epic
Amazing, I love all of Stephen Foster's songs you guys do
Awesome ❤
Remember ya all well@ 150th anvers🎉Chaplain 44thga &. 5 th La ❤
Well done! Thank you for keeping this music alive.
The next best thing to a time machine . Well done lads . Look forward to next upload . Greetings to all from Derbyshire, England .
Have y’all played the Dixie version of battle cry of freedom?
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Yep. Our album, "Dulcem Melodies"... ua-cam.com/video/iP7Y_PAg3Fc/v-deo.html