Down Where the Swanee River Flows

DESCRIPTION: "had a big surprise today While in a ten-cent photo-play, I really saw my old home town way down in Dixieland." "Down where the Swanee River flows, I want to be there." The singer recalls family and home. He wants to congratulate the "movie man"
AUTHOR: Words: Charles McCarron and Charles S. Alberte / Music: Albert von Tilzer (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1916 (recording, Peerless Quartet)
KEYWORDS: home family mother separation technology
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Pegler-SoldiersSongsAndSlangoftheGreatWar, pp. 273-274, "Down Where the Swanee River Flows" (1 text)
Roud #31201
RECORDINGS:
Al Jolson, "Down Where the Swanee River Flows" (Columbia A2007, 1916)
Peerless Quartet, "Down Where the Swanee River Flows" (Victor 17983, 1916)
NOTES [75 words]: Note that the composer of the tune was Albert von Tilzer, not Harry von Tilzer. The sheet music says it is from a show called "Robinson Crusoe Jr." which opened in February 1916.
Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 311, estimates that this was the nineteenth most popular song in America in October 1916 (#1 for the year being "Pretty Baby"). - RBW
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