Springfield Elliot Avenue Baptist
The Source
May 2012
Robert E. Lee Sentimental Journey Just a Closer Walk Swing Low Darktown BROCK: Beethoven Battle Hymn God Bless America Amazing Grace BROCK: Maple Leaf Victory in Jesus
Springfield Elliot Ave Baptist May 2013
When We All Get to Heaven …John & KB 5’ 2” ….. Brock and I John…. Solo Leaning …. Me John and Brock duet Skinny Dippin’ Lichtenstein Polka…John and I… accordions (Brock..piano) Maple Leaf….Brock Amazing Grace… 3 of us
Springfield Elliot Ave Batist Sept 2014
Ain’t She Sweet? This Little Light of Mine Hello Dolly 5’ 2” In the Mood Georgia Brown Tennessee Waltz Yellow Star
Springfield Elliot Ave Baptist Sept 2015 Alabama Jubilee Missouri Waltz
Brock: classical Golden Slippers/Redwing Maggie I’ll Fly Away What a Friend Brock: Maple Leaf Beer Barrel
2016 Mansion Elvis’s favorite. Ira Stanphill. Little girl: mansion. Baby Face #1 of 1926 Irish Eyes 1912….top songs of WW I, Pres. Reagan’s favorite As the Deer Spirit of Peoria Rag Alley Cat My neighbor, rain gauge Blessed Assurance Fanny Crosby How Great Carl Bolberg Swedish, German, Russian, missionary: English George Beverly Shea Amazing Grace. . Amanda Victory in Jesus
Darktown Just a Closer Walk (repeat) First played by Les Brown. Musican’s strike during war.. . unofficial homecoming song of GI’s. Sentimental Journey Didn’t do: Down Yonder Del Wood 4 Leaf Clover.. Peace like a River
2018 When we all get to Heaven. . warm-up 4-Leaf Clover . . . California Rovers. . Lichtenstein Polka Appleton Wisconsin, ARJQ: only polkas all day long. Czech word “pulka” means “dance in half” . . small steps. In the Garden Austin Miles, 1912 Swing Low Uncle Johnny fiddle . . had no teeth “Scwinglo”…thought it was German Brock. . . Classical In the Mood …first recorded, 1930 “Tar Paper Stomp” by Barbecue Joe and his hotdogs. . but not copy written. . then “Hot String Beans,” then “Jumpy Nerves.” Finally sold to Glenn Miller in 1939 Leaning . . . My Alexa device. . . got it when I couldn’t get out of bed, feeding tubes. Most evenings, “Alexa, play Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” My organist tires of it. Don’t Nobody . . me Victory in Jesus Maple Leaf Brock . .
(Next year…request for Grandma and Bomp Me)
Robert E. Lee Alabama Jubilee Gulf Coast This Little Light Civil Rights, Women’s suffrage, ERA, 60’s peace movement Tennesse Waltz Pee Wee King.. (5) Rocky Top Ain’t she sweet? 1927, Milton Ager for daughter Shana Missouri Waltz Harry Truman. Pub 1914, made state song 1934. Japanese students When We All……(The Jubilee) Eliza Hewitt and Emily Wilson, 1898. Just a closer walk Pump organ funeral What a friend, Joseph Scriven Put another nickel Amazing Grace Cherokee Nat. Anthem Angry 1955, Nappy Brown Mack the Knife..3-Penny Opera, about a mass murderer. Kurt Weil. Bobby Darrin: Dick Clark: No opera. Steve Martin, SNL. McDonnald’s to intro the Big Mac Irish Eyes 1912, recorded over 200 times, theme for “Duffy’s Tavern” If You Knew Suzie, Eddie Cantor: 5 wks #1 in 1925..movie Darktown Strutter’s Ball Shelton Brooks, Chicago pub 1917 Beer Barrel Polka 1927 Jaromír Vejvoda, a Checz, Brit and” Germans claimed it. “Wasted Love When you & I were young George Washington Johnson, Canada, Scottish albums.. HINEY Mansion Ira Stanphill, friend of Elvis and Johnny Cash. Mame In the Mood Glen Miller, 1939, orig: “Tar Paper Stomp” Peter Sellars funeral Alley Cat Denmark Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (Bent Fabric) “Around the piano) Sweet Georgia Brown 2 ladies in Atlanta Whispering spoons. 1920. Paul Whiteman orch. Ted Mack 5’2” 1920’s. California Ramblers? Stolen. Soldier coming home. Basin Street Blues One of those songs, Sentimental Journey Les Brown, Doris Day, 1945, homecoming song for many vets. Swing Low Ripley Ohio, Underground RR. William Wallis, a Choctaw freedman, in the Old Indian territory. Inspired by the Red River, reminded him of Jordan R. Fisk U. Victory Honky Tonk Eugene Barlett…wrote hundreds of songs..usually in a few minutes. 1939: stroke: took a month for this one. Died 2 years later. Hello Dolly Carol Channing…Jerry Herman 1964 (Eythl Merman and Mary Martin both turned it down) Originally called “That Damned Exasperating Woman” then Herman heard Louis Armstrong sing it. Leaning… Brian Camptown…variations The Yellow Star Four Leaf Clover Art Mooney.. also wrote Baby Face Tin Pan Alley songs Entertainer..Marvin Hamlech, Joplin Golden Slippers & Redwing Lichtenstein Polka several states Somewhere my love.. Dr. Z. Marice Jarre..couldn’t find rights to Russian folk tune … repeated, 16 bars balalaika band Don’t Jump the Boat Mule Song Carpe Carp Skinny Dippin’ Mud Blues Spirit of Peoria Rag..farm boy Joshua probably pre-cival war, slaves Peace Like a River Leif Enger..asthma son Camptown Races Questions As the Deer Battle Hymn God Bless America