Dixie and Other Love Songs: Civil War Era Songs Volume 2 [Audio Cassette]

Christopher Lee Woods (Author)

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Two cassette audio book with approximately 2 hours of music, anecdotes, parodies and spoken history of ... Wait for the Wagon; Devilish Mary; Aura Lea; Banks Of The Ohio; Shortenin' Bread; Green Grows The Lilacs; Johnny Is My Darling; A Rovin'; Dixie; Shenandoah; The Gypsy Rover; Tavern in the Town; Lorena; Yellow Rose Of Texas; Cindy. Fifteen authentic, full-length songs sung by the 97th Regimental String Band

The popular songs that soldiers sang around the campfire are skillfully presented by the 97th Regimental String Band in this volume. With the quotes, parodies and anecdotes, a moving tapestry of the life of the Civil War soldier is evoked with the songs' music and spoken histories.

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Editorial Reviews

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The following is taken from a point near the end of the third chapter on "Aura Lea's" history.

... The song "Aura Lea" again surfaced in a 1936 movie Come and Get It, in the 1952 movie The Last Musketeer and once more in 1955 on sound track of movie about Westpoint, The Long Gray Line.

During 1956 when Elvis Presley started his first motion picture, Love Me Tender, it was suggested that an authentic melody of the Civil War be used. Since the plot line of the movie portrayed a postwar family, to this end, Elvis Presley and Vera Matson collaborated in writing new lyrics for George Poulton's tune. Thus "Aura Lee" became the 1956 rock-n-roll hit single,"Love Me Tender," one of Elvis' best selling songs, out selling 80 percent of all of his other tunes.

Product Details

Audio Cassette
Publisher: N.G.A. Studios
ISBN-10: 1884649025
ISBN-13: 978-1884649028
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,802,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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