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Silver Threads Among The Gold
"Silver Threads Among the Gold", first copyrighted in 1873, was a popular song in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is a standard of barbershop quartet singing. The lyrics are by Eben E. Rexford, and the music by Hart Pease Danks. Background In 1930, an Associated Press story published in ''The New York Times'' gave some background on the writing of the lyrics of the song: "Silver Threads Song Traced to Poet’s ‘Re-Hash’ on Order" Shiocton, Wis. (AP).—The love ballad, “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” which has stirred the hearts of more than one generation, was not the inspiration of an aging poet but a “re-hash” produced on order. The story developed after the unveiling of a monument here in honor of the author of the words, Eben E. Rexford, who died in 1916. Rexford made a living by writing verse and flower and garden articles for magazines. When he was 18, he wrote and sold for $3 some verses entitled “Growing Old.” ...
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1873 In Music
This article is about music-related events in 1873. Events *April – The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour. *August 27 – Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio '' The Light of the World'' (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival. *Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. *Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in ''The Magic Flute'' at Dresden. Published popular music * "The German Polka" by Gus Williams (vaudeville) * "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart * "Home on the Range" w. Brewster M. Higley m. Daniel E. Kelley * "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White (musician) *"Little sweetheart, come listen to me". Words and music by Arthur W. French * "Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks Classical music *Johannes Brahms ** Two String Q ...
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Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song " You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so. Born in remote oil-rich Coalinga, California, near Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of ''A ...
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Heino
Heinz Georg Kramm (born 13 December 1938), known professionally as Heino, is a German singer of Schlager and traditional Volksmusik. Having sold a total of over 50 million records, he is one of the most successful German musicians of all time. Heino is known for his baritone voice and trademark combination of light blond hair and dark sunglasses (which he wears due to exophthalmos). He lives in the town of Bad Münstereifel, where he owned a café until June 2012. His interest in music started when his mother gave him an accordion in 1948, although his family could barely afford it. Early life Heino was born on 13 December 1938 in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk, Germany, to Heinrich and Franziska Kramm. His father was a Roman Catholic dentist, his mother a Protestant. His grandfather was the organist at the Cathedral of Cologne. He also had two cousins who were Catholic priests. Heino's father was drafted into the German army during World War II, and was killed on 2 August 1941 during ...
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Ernest And Clarence Iverson
Ernest and Clarence Iverson were popular radio personalities on Twin Cities stations KTLK (AM), WDGY and KYCR (AM), KEYD during the 1930s and 1940s. Ernest (1903–1958) was known as Slim Jim. His brother Clarence (1905–1990) was the Vagabond Kid. Together they performed an eclectic mix of music ranging from country music, country western and Tin Pan Alley to gospel music, gospel hymns and Scandinavian ballads.''A Passion for Polka: old-time ethnic music in America''
by Victor R. Greene, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).


Norwegian-American entertainers

The Iversons, who were born near Binford, North Dakota, came from a large Norwegian-American family. When their mother died in 1910, their father hired a Norwegian immigrant housekeeper named ...
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Carsten Woll
Carsten Thorvald Woll (1885-1962) was a leading Norwegian-American singer and recording artist of the 1910s and 1920s. Biography The singer and composer Carsten Woll was born in Oslo, Norway. He took his student exams in 1903 and subsequently studied music and voice in Denmark and Germany.''Norsk pop- og rockleksikon'', (Oslo: Vega Forlag, 2005). Woll immigrated to America in 1913 and was a professor first at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota and then at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1926 he also became the director of the Woll Music Studio in Minot, North Dakota. After retiring as a teacher of singing and music at St. Olaf College in 1951, he moved to Eugene, Oregon. Music Carsten Woll was one of the big names in Norwegian-American music with nearly two thousand live performances and frequent appearances at choral festivals. He wrote several songs and compiled a songbook that was published by the Sons of Norway in 1926. There were over one hundred Norw ...
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Peace
Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. Throughout history, leaders have used peacemaking and diplomacy to establish a type of behavioral restraint that has resulted in the establishment of regional peace or economic growth through various forms of agreements or peace treaties. Such behavioral restraint has often resulted in the reduced conflict, greater economic interactivity, and consequently substantial prosperity. "Psychological peace" (such as peaceful thinking and emotions) is perhaps less well defined, yet often a necessary precursor to establishing "behavioural peace." Peaceful behaviour sometimes results from a "peaceful inner disposition." Some have expressed the belief that peace can be initiated with a certain quality of inner tranquility that does not depend upo ...
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Emil Norlander
Emil Norlander (1865-1935) was a Swedish journalist, author, songwriter and producer of musical revues.Emil Norlander
''riksarkivet.se''. Retrieved April 17, 2014.


Career

Originally a dentist, by the late 1890s Norlander was working as a columnist on a newspaper. Following this, he became a contributing writer and editor of the humor magazines ''Nya Nisse'' and ''Kasper''. He wrote more than twenty books, the most famous being ''Anderssonskans Kalle'' (Anderson's Charlie), the tale of a mischievous boy in turn-of-the-century . Starti ...
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Dime Novel
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines.The English equivalents were generally called penny dreadfuls or shilling shockers. The German and French equivalents were called "Groschenromane" and "livraisons à dix centimes", respectively. American firms also issued foreign editions of many of their works, especially as series characters came into vogue. The term was used as a title as late as 1940, in the short-lived pulp magazine ''Western Dime Novels''. In the modern age, the term ''dime novel'' has been used to refer to quickly written, lurid potboilers, usually as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized but superficial literary work. History In 1860, the publish ...
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Emil Norlander Handlar Glögg (VJ 52 1916)
Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *''Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *''Emil and the Detectives'' (1929), a children's novel *"Emil", nickname of the Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration (1982–1999) *''Emil i Lönneberga'', a series of children's novels by Astrid Lindgren Military *Emil (tank), a Swedish tank developed in the 1950s * Sturer Emil, a German tank destroyer People *Emil (given name), including a list of people with the given name ''Emil'' or ''Emile'' *Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer Other * ''Emile'' (film), a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai *Emil (river), in China and Kazakhstan See also * * *Aemilius (other) *Emilio (other) *Emílio (other) *Emilios (other) Emilios, or Aimilios, (Greek: Αιμίλιος) is a ...
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Hart Pease Danks 1898
Hart often refers to: * Hart (deer) Hart may also refer to: Organizations * Hart Racing Engines, a former Formula One engine manufacturer * Hart Skis, US ski manufacturer * Hart Stores, a Canadian chain of department stores * Hart's Reptile World, a zoo in Oregon, United States * Harts Stores, a defunct American chain of department stores People * Hart (given name) * Hart (surname) ** Hart family, a family of Canadian professional wrestlers, plus some American and British wrestlers related by marriage *** The Hart Foundation, a number of tag teams or stables, most of them featuring second-generation members of the above family **** The Hart Dynasty, a late-2000s WWE stable that included third-generation members of the family * Hart family murders, a 2018 murder–suicide by Jennifer and Sarah Hart, who murdered their six adopted children Places Austria: * Hart, Austria Australia: * Hart, Northern Territory, a locality * Hart, South Australia, a locality * Cape Hart Conservati ...
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ...
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James Cavanaugh (songwriter)
James Anthony Cavanaugh (New York City, 29 October 1892 - New York City, 18 August 1967) was an American songwriter. Among his best known songs were "Mississippi Mud" (1927, made popular by Bing Crosby), " Crosstown" (1940, co-written with John Redmond), and "The Gaucho Serenade" (title track of the soundtrack to the Gene Autry 1940 movie Gaucho Serenade). Biography Marriage, work as chauffeur and military service during WWI Born in 1892 in New York City, in 1917 Cavanaugh was living in Manhattan, at 511 W 130th St., was married to "Martha V. Conroy", and was working as a private chauffeur for a businessman at 43 West 55th St. also in Manhattan. In October of 1918, he was drafted despite this, but luckily the armistice was signed 11/11/18 and Cavanaugh was discharged honorably in mid-December in the general demobilization. From chauffeur to professional songwriter, through a house moving and military service during WWII James and Martha Cavanaugh would go on to raise six childre ...
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