- The
American Songbag is an
anthology of
American folksongs compiled by the poet Carl
Sandburg and
published by Harcourt,
Brace and
Company in 1927. It...
-
Anthony D.
Saletan (born June 29, 1931),
known professionally as Tony Saletan, is an
American folk singer, children's
instructional television pioneer...
- Lincoln: The
Prairie Years, a two-volume biography, in 1926, The
American Songbag (1927), and a book of
poems called Good Morning,
America (1928) in Elmhurst...
- Comin'
Round the Mountain" in
print was in Carl Sandburg's The
American Songbag in 1927.
Sandburg reports that the
Negro spiritual "When the
Chariot Comes"...
-
published two
different versions of "Midnight Special" in his The
American Songbag, the
first published versions. The song was
first commercially recorded...
-
composition "The
Death Of
Mother Jones".
There is a myth that in The
American Songbag (1927), Carl
Sandburg suggests that the "she" in "She'll Be
Coming 'Round...
- Carl
Sandburg included the song as "Kentucky Moonshiner" in The
American Songbag. He
found the song in the
collection of
another folklorist named Gilbert...
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songs in his
travels and, in 1927,
published them in the book The
American Songbag.
Rachel Donaldson, a
historian who
worked for Vanderbilt,
later stated...
- Le Gallienne, and Carl
Sandburg included a
version in his The
American Songbag in 1927.
There have been many
recordings of the song
since the
early 1950s...
- member. Carl
Sandburg collected the song for his
anthology The
American Songbag, and he
wrote that it was "heard at the
water tanks of
railroads in Kansas...
