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"Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), first published in 1848. It is among the most popular American songs ever written. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
In 1846, Stephen Foster moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became a bookkeeper with his brother's steamship company. While in Cincinnati, Foster wrote "Oh! Susanna", possibly for his men's social club. The song was first performed by a local quintet at a concert in Andrews' Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1847. It was first published by W. C. Peters & Co. in Cincinnati in 1848. Other minstrel troupes performed the work, and, as was common at the time, many registered the song for copyright under their own names. As a result, it was copyrighted and published at least 21 times from February 25, 1848, through February 14, 1851. Foster earned just $100 ($2,653 in 2012 dollars) for the song, but its popularity led the publishing firm Firth, Pond & Company to offer him a royalty rate of two cents per copy of sheet music sold, convincing him to become America's first fully professional songwriter.
The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 126 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation (now ITC Entertainment) and Hal Roach Studios.
The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
The series is based on a cruise director, Susanna Pomeroy (Storm), on a ship traveling around the world. A cast of regular characters inhabits the ship and new situations are created as the ship moors in ports. Unlike her previous role on My Little Margie, Storm's character emits a shrill, two-fingered whistle to get people's attention. On her previous show, she would make a Trilling sound when in trouble.
The series finished at #16 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1957-1958 season.
Susanna may refer to:
What a natural. And the kid aint so bad either
Gitarre und Blockflöte
C3 Performing Arts Center School of Music host its Summer student recital on Friday July 20th, 2012. Shelby Potts piano student Oliver Wolff performs "Oh, Susanna." www.c3pac.com
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity. Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is traveling to Mineral Springs Ranch to visit an old friend, Jefferson Lee (Carl Stockdale), whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. On the train he is robbed and then thrown from the train by escaped murderer Wolf Benson (Boothe Howard). Believing Gene to be dead, Wolf plans to travel to Mineral Springs Ranch and pose as the radio celebrity in order to collect the $10,000 that Lee owes Gene. Meanwhile Gene is rescued by traveling actors Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnet...
Music recital at The Point: Church of the Nazarene in San Jose, CA on Sunday, June 3, 2012.
www.eztales.com is a library of children's books, children's story songs, children's games and puzzles to help kids learn to read. It's Disney and Sesame Street fun for the entire family.
My first attempt to play something resembling a song on the fiddle. Please don't be too hard on me.
Oh, I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
And I'm going to Louisiana, my true love for to see
Well, it rained all night the day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot, I froze to death
Susanna, don't you cry
Oh, Susanna! Oh, don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee
I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna a-coming down the hill
A buckwheat cake was in her mouth
A tear was in her eye
Says I, "I'm coming from the South
Susanna, don't you cry"
Oh, Susanna! Oh, don't you cry for me
For I'm going to Louisiana with my banjo on my knee