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  • What happens if this guy's trying to play Camptown Races at the same time the machine that goes ping is trying to play Tainted Love?

    Eddie Adcock plays the banjo while undergoing brain surgery. Ann Althouse 2008

  • As for Mitchell being insincere because she wrote a song about an event she missed---well, do we know Stephen Foster was actually ever at the Camptown Races?

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • As for Mitchell being insincere because she wrote a song about an event she missed---well, do we know Stephen Foster was actually ever at the Camptown Races?

    Miles of aisles 2005

  • Ives also mentions "Steve Foster" in some of his notes, and Steve's tune Camptown Races , which appears in a lot of Ives's works but is especially noticeable in the 2nd Symphony, the one "commonly identified with the dominant French horn figure in Dvorak's New World Symphony, premiered in New York in December 1893--i.e. before Ives started work on his 2nd Symphony.

    "Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post The Daily Growler 2006

  • Featured songs include: Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Farmer In the Dell, Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone, London Bridge, Camptown Races, Children's

    ShoppingBlog.com 2010

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