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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair by Stan Freberg with Billy May's Orchestra

Submitted by

23skidoo

On September 9, 2018

Assigned to

Oldiesmann

On September 14, 2018

Performance

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Rock Around Stephen Foster

By Stan Freberg with Billy May's Orchestra

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Language
English
Release
The Yellow Rose of Texas

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Comedic medley adaptation spoofing rock and roll, credited to Stan Freberg and Foster. The medley consists of:


Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (the song is primarily built around this melody)

Oh! Susanna

Beautiful Dreamer

Old Dog Tray - one verse merges lyrics and melody from Shake, Rattle and Roll

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races

My Old Kentucky Home - Good-Night!

Massa's in de Cold Ground


In addition, the guitar solo from Bill Haley's (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock is spoofed and a few additional Foster songs are referenced.

History

Change by 23skidoo
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2018-09-09 22:40:11 UTC

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2018-09-09 23:42:34 UTC

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2018-09-09 23:43:16 UTC

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Change by Oldiesmann
2018-09-14 21:37:22 UTC
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Comment by Oldiesmann
2018-09-14 21:41:37 UTC

Medley spoofs like this are always a bit tricky to handle. I'll add this once I figure out the adaptation type(s) to use... Definitely qualifies as its own work, but I'm not sure how the other songs fit in here...

 
Comment by 23skidoo
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2018-09-15 02:16:55 UTC

@Oldiesmann. Yeah, that's why I've refrained from adding this as an adaptation of the others because in some cases it's just a few words or a musical phrase. But the song keeps coming back to Jeanie and the performance is acknowledged on the recording itself to be an attempt at a cover, so I think that one's pretty safe at least, albeit an adaptation. I'll have to look and see how Weird Al Yankovic's multi-song polka parodies are handled.