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...American Music), whose biography, Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour, mined such nuggets as the fact that the No. 1 composer of fireside favorites got only $15 for Swanee River, a name he picked from an atlas after making a false start with "way down upon de Pedee ribber"; in West Orange...
...Jane McDowell produced two great songs: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, in her honor; and Old Black Joe, celebrating the McDowell family butler. For $15 Foster sold the performing rights to his greatest-selling song, Old Folks at Home. It started as Way Down Upon de Pedee Ribber but Stephen, not liking the sound of that, consulted an atlas and discovered Florida's Suwannee River. Minstrel Edwin P. Christy even brought the right to list himself as composer. Yet, in all, Stephen's 200 songs earned him some $15,000, which wasn't bad for those...
...mornings, the 2,000,000-odd readers of Joe Patterson's New York Daily News start the week with a good slug of anti-New Dealism called Capitol Stuff. Its author is the News's sardonic, dapper, Roosevelt-baiting Washington correspondent John O'Donnell. Last week Ribber O'Donnell was in fine choleric fettle...
...customer. He paid Foster $10.00 for the privilege of first singing "Oh! Susanna" which became the marching song for the California gold rush, $15.00 for "Old Folks at Home" because Foster let him sign himself as composer. "Old Folks at Home" started originally as "Way Down Upon de Pedee ribber." "Pedee" did not quite suit Foster. His brother suggested the Yazoo but that seemed harsh. Together they scoured the Atlas, picked on the Suwanee River in Florida. Foster's songs earned him $15,091, a rich amount for the times. But Foster drank up much...