United States state songs (Music Guide)

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Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 51. Chapters: List of U.S. state songs, Yankee Doodle, On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, Old Folks at Home, Georgia on My Mind, Tennessee Waltz, Hang On Sloopy, The Arkansas Traveler, Rocky Top, Maryland, My Maryland, My Old Kentucky Home, I Love New York, Old Settler's Song, Michigan, My Michigan, Home on the Range, On, Wisconsin!, Do You Realize??, You Are My Sunshine, I Love You, California, Old Rosin the Beau, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, Brewster Higley, Old New Hampshire, South Carolina on My Mind, Rocky Mountain High, Missouri Waltz, Alaska's Flag, Así Es Nuevo Méjico, Hawai¿i Pono¿i, Hail! Minnesota, Oregon, My Oregon, Oklahoma, Utah, This Is the Place, Beautiful Ohio, Oklahoma Hills, Texas, Our Texas, Alabama, Hail, Pennsylvania!, Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico, The Old North State, In a Little Red Barn, Hail, Vermont!, Our Delaware, Go, Mississippi, Wyoming, Where the Columbines Grow, Illinois, O Fair New Mexico, Here We Have Idaho, Give Me Louisiana, Say Hello to Someone from Massachusetts, Home Means Nevada, Washington, My Home, Virginia, Montana, North Dakota Hymn, Utah, We Love Thee, Hail, South Dakota!, Oh, Arkansas, These Green Mountains, Florida, State of Maine Song, Ode to Massachusetts, The Great State of Massachusetts, All Hail to Massachusetts, The Road to Boston. Excerpt: "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" was among the best-selling songs of the 19th century in terms of sheet music sold. Written and composed by American songwriter Paul Dresser, it was published by the Tin Pan Alley firm of Howley, Haviland & Co. in October 1897. The lyrics of the ballad reminisce about life near Dresser's childhood home by the Wabash River in Indiana. It remained popular for decades and the Indiana General Assembly adopted it as the official state song on March 14, 1913. The song was the basis for a 1923 film by the same title. Its longtime popularity led to the emergence of several different lyrical versions, including an 1898 anti-war song and a Swedish version that was a number one hit. The song was composed during a transitory time in musical history when songs first began to be recorded for the phonograph. It was among the earliest pieces of popular music to be recorded. Dresser's inability to control the distribution of phonograph cylinders led him and his company to join other composers to petition the United States Congress to expand federal copyright protections over the new technology. Dresser's ballad was the subject of some controversy after his death in 1906. His younger brother, novelist Theodore Dreiser, publicly claimed to have authored part of the song, the validity of his claim was never proven. The ambiguity of United States copyright laws at the time and the poor management of Dresser's estate left the song vulnerable to plagiarism. The 1917 song "Back Home Again in Indiana" borrowed heavily from Dresser's song, both lyrically and musically, and led to a dispute with Dresser's estate that was never resolved. Paul Dresser, c. 1897Paul Dresser, a prominent 19th-century song and music composer, grew up near the city of Terre Haute, Indiana. His family's home and farm was on land adjacent to the Wabash River, the primary internal waterway in the state of Indiana. Later in life, Dresser began traveling with acting troupes and began