On a side note, I was recently called a racist because I stated that I think the movie is hilarious.
There is usually no sense arguing with white guilt ridden liberal fools as you just can't fix stupid.
Posted on 09/18/2009 5:55:23 PM PDT by BigReb555
In 1859, Ohio Native Dan Emmett first performed “Dixie” New York City.
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In 1859, Ohio Native Dan Emmett first performed “Dixie” New York City.
Two years later, on February 18, 1861, the band played Dixie at the Inauguration of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama.
And on April 14, 1865, after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, President Abraham Lincoln said: “Now Let the Band Play Dixie; it belongs nether to the South, nor to the North but to us all.”—New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 11, 1907.
For 150 years Northern and Southern Bands have played Dixie including the Milton High school “Dixie Eagles” Band who performed Dixie at the invitation and inauguration of the late Lester G. Maddox as Governor of Georgia in January 1967.
Dixie was played in 1976, during America’s Bi-Centennial birthday, at the Old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia and the late Johnny Cash sang Dixie at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. to then President Jimmy Carter and members of Congress.
Dixie has been performed by many musicians including; Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Lawrence Welk, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Shore, John Phillip Sousa, Osmond Brothers, Boxcar Willie, Jane Froman, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Mitch Miller, Johnny Hartman and The Rebelaires.
Roz Bowie, a Black Southern Lady, sang Dixie in 1986 at the reburial of a Confederate Soldier in Columbia, South Carolina.
So, what happened to “Dixie?”
Autumn is an exciting time for high school and college football. School bands will play to lift the soul but students, teachers, parents and fans will not hear "Dixie." Many of our institutions of learning have stopped playing Dixie even though the song is universally loved.
What happened to "Dixie" that was the official band music of the Confederate and Union Armies? What happened to this song that Northern and Southern children sang from their schools standard song book? As a young boy, I remember going to the Great Southeastern Fair, in Atlanta and hearing "Dixie" coming from the Carousel. I also remember my teacher closing the window as the Headland High School Band rehearsed outdoors to "Dixie."
Today, men and women serve overseas to free the people of Iraq and Afghanistan....But school bands are no longer allowed to play "Dixie" and "Under God" is under attack in the pledge of allegiance.
Country music singer Lee Greenwood, who sang "God Bless the USA" and "Dixie" may have become politically incorrect. Yes, this Northern born American included "Dixie" on his "American Patriot" CD. There was a time not long ago when high school bands played Dixie and public prayers asked for the safety of the football players and safety of the men and women of our United States Armed Forces.
Back when prayer started a school day, streets were safer and news was not filled with murder, rape and hatred.
Imagine for a moment that you are taken back to a high school football game of that time. The prayer had been prayed and the band begins to play Dixie. There is a huge cheer that builds as this tune is played. The people rise to cheer and sing this song that they love. Dan Emmett's headstone reads: "Daniel Decatur Emmett 1815 - 1904 whose song 'Dixie Land' inspired the courage and devotion of the Southern people and now thrills the hearts of a reunited nation."
God Bless America and Let the Band Play Dixie!
It's a song which expresses nostalgia and love of birthplace....has nothing to do with race or servitude.
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you are right about that Dixie
In 1956 my college room mate awoke each morning and set the 33 1/3 Hi-Fi record up to play “Dixie”. I can sing all 3 verses to this day! Love it! “Look away to Dixie land”
I went to college in Monroe,LA. In West Monroe, just across the Ouachita River from Monroe, they play Dixie at the high school games. Their mascot is the West Monroe Rebels and there are tons of Confederate battle flags at the games. I never got a racist vibe from them whenever I would go to watch the games. Just a sense of nostalgia. But then again, Jimmah Carter says I’m a racist, so what the hell do I know?
Jimmy Carter wasn't President in 1976.
I know that at least as recently as 10 years ago that Ole Miss still played it. I don’t know if they still do or not.
Not only “what happened to ‘Dixie’ “, but whatever happened to the greats we played in music class in elementary school in the late 50s?
* Shenandoah
* Battle Hymn of the Republic
* Erie Canal
* Bicycle Built for Two
* Camptown Races
* She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
* Oh! Susanna
* Anchors Aweigh
* Marine’s Hymn
* The U.S. Air Force Song
* The Caisson Song
* Yellow Rose of Texas
* Sweet Betsy From Pike
* Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Gone, all gone from public schools. What a tragedy that kids today aren’t taught the connection to their past and to their roots as Americans.
At least they have Kanye. /sarcasm
You can add Bonnie Blue Flag and Goobers Peas to that list also.
Yes! Forgot about Goober Peas - a great one, huh?
Of course, I left all the Christmas Carols, too. Don’t even get me started on that!
“Old Folks at Home,” too. We used to sing lots of Stephen Foster songs. What a great songwriter.
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Check out local bluegrass groups. We play many of these all the time.
We love what once was, and pray that these times will come again.
This has been a great country, and will be again. We have had no options with our leadership, as of late.
But, we will get to the truth, soon.
Sitting by the roadside on a summer’s day
Chatting with my mess-mates, passing time away
Lying in the shadows underneath the trees
Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas.
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
southron nostalgia ping
If you want to hear Dixie performed go to the Stone Mt.
Highland Tattoo on the Thursday night before the games.
It’s always played and receives a resounding welcome.
Please pass the buckwheat cakes....and I'll have some country ham and redeye gravy, too.
Here's a neat little (COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO POST) tidbit about this song from http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1997/march/5/2.html-
One of the more famous moments in Bell Labs' synthetic speech research was the sample created by John L. Kelly in 1962, using an IBM 704 computer. Kelly's vocoder synthesizer recreated the song "Bicycle Built for Two," with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Arthur C. Clarke, then visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility, saw this remarkable demonstration and later used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for "2001: A Space Odyssey," where the HAL9000 computer sings this song as he is disassembled by astronaut Dave Bowman.
“It’s a song which expresses nostalgia and love of birthplace....has nothing to do with race or servitude.”
Oh, eventually someone will be along to tell you just the opposite.
On a side note, I was recently called a racist because I stated that I think the movie is hilarious.
There is usually no sense arguing with white guilt ridden liberal fools as you just can't fix stupid.
bttt
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