Camptown Races, the Glossary
"De Camptown Races" or "Gwine to Run All Night" (nowadays popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by American Romantic composer Stephen Foster.[1]
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52 relations: African-American Vernacular English, Al Jolson, American Quartet (ensemble), Americana music, Billy Murray (singer), Bing Crosby, Blazing Saddles, Bugs Bunny, Camptown, Pennsylvania, Charles Ives, Christy's Minstrels, Clinton Township, Essex County, New Jersey, Dan Emmett, England–Germany football rivalry, F. D. Benteen, Foghorn Leghorn, Football chant, Frankie Laine, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Irvington, New Jersey, Johnny Mercer, Julie London, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Looney Tunes, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Merrie Melodies, Minstrel show, Mississippi Hare, New York Public Library, Oh! Susanna, Old Dan Tucker, Recess (TV series), Riding High (1950 film), Romantic music, Roud Folk Song Index, South Park, Southern Fried Rabbit, Stephen Foster, Supernatural (American TV series), Swanee River (1939 film), Sweet Savage (film), Swing Me an Old Song, Symphony No. 2 (Ives), Tell It All Brother, The Banjo (Gottschalk), The Office (American TV series), Toy Story Toons, Two World Wars and One World Cup, Virginia Minstrels, ... Expand index (2 more) »
- 1850 songs
- Blackface minstrel songs
- Public domain music
- Songs about Pennsylvania
- Songs about horses
- Songs written by Stephen Foster
African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians.
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Al Jolson
Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson,; May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-born American singer, actor, and vaudevillian.
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American Quartet (ensemble)
The American Quartet was a four-member vocal group that recorded for various companies in the United States between 1899 and 1925.
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Americana music
Americana (also known as American roots music) is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States of America, with particular emphasis on music historically developed in the American South.
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Billy Murray (singer)
William Thomas Murray (May 25, 1877 – August 17, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early 20th century.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman.
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Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman.
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Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an American cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.
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Camptown, Pennsylvania
Camptown is an unincorporated community in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American actuary, businessman, and modernist composer.
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Christy's Minstrels
Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer, in 1843, in Buffalo, New York.
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Clinton Township, Essex County, New Jersey
Clinton Township was a township located in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, which existed from 1834 to 1902.
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Dan Emmett
Daniel Decatur Emmett (October 29, 1815June 28, 1904) was an American composer, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition, the Virginia Minstrels.
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The English and German national football teams have played each other since the end of the 19th century; officially since 1930.
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F. D. Benteen
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Foghorn Leghorn
Foghorn Leghorn is an anthropomorphic rooster who appears in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and films from Warner Bros. Animation.
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A football chant or terrace chant is a form of vocalisation performed by supporters of association football, typically during football matches.
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Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American singer and songwriter whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005.
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historic research facility headquartered on Locust Street in Center City Philadelphia.
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Irvington, New Jersey
Irvington is a township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
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Julie London
Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years.
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Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter.
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Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, until 1970 billed as The First Edition, were an American rock band.
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Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is an American animated franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It began as a series of short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, along with its partner series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer, pianist, and virtuoso performer of his own romantic piano works.
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Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is an American animated comedy short film series distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.
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Mississippi Hare
Mississippi Hare is a 1949 Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.
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New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.
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Oh! Susanna
"Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), first published in 1848. Camptown Races and Oh! Susanna are American children's songs, American folk songs, blackface minstrel songs, songs of the American Civil War and songs written by Stephen Foster.
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Old Dan Tucker
"Old Dan Tucker," also known as "Ole Dan Tucker," "Dan Tucker," and other variants, is an American popular song. Camptown Races and Old Dan Tucker are American folk songs and blackface minstrel songs.
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Recess (TV series)
Recess is an American animated television series created by Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere (credited on marketing materials and late-series title cards as "Paul and Joe") and produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, with animation done by Grimsaem, Anivision, Plus One Animation, Sunwoo Animation, and Toon City.
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Riding High (1950 film)
Riding High is a 1950 American black-and-white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra.
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Romantic music
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period).
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Roud Folk Song Index
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.
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South Park
South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central.
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Southern Fried Rabbit
Southern Fried Rabbit is a 1953 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.
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Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period.
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Supernatural (American TV series)
Supernatural is an American television series created by Eric Kripke.
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Swanee River (1939 film)
Swanee River is a 1939 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, and Felix Bressart.
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Sweet Savage (film)
Sweet Savage is a 1979 American pornographic film written and directed by Ann Perry and starring porn performers Carol Connors and Jack Birch along with straight acting veteran Aldo Ray, a Golden Globe nominee, in a non-sex role.
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Swing Me an Old Song
Swing Me an Old Song is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog numbers LRP-3119 (monaural) and LST-7119 (stereophonic) in 1959.
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Symphony No. 2 (Ives)
The Second Symphony was written by Charles Ives between 1897 and 1902.
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Tell It All Brother
Tell It All Brother is the sixth album by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, released in 1970 by Reprise Records.
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The Banjo (Gottschalk)
The Banjo, Op.
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The Office (American TV series)
The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series based on the 2001–2003 BBC series of the same name created by (and starring) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
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Toy Story Toons
Toy Story Toons is an American animated short film series based on the Toy Story franchise.
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Two World Wars and One World Cup
"Two World Wars and One World Cup" is a football song sung by supporters of the England national football team to the tune of "Camptown Races" as part of the England–Germany football rivalry.
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Virginia Minstrels
The Virginia Minstrels or Virginia Serenaders was a group of 19th-century American entertainers who helped invent the entertainment form known as the minstrel show.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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1860 United States presidential election
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860.
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See also
1850 songs
- Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway
- Angelina Baker
- Camptown Races
- Danmark, mit fædreland
- Dejlig er jorden
- I Have Got the Blues To Day!
- Wait for the Wagon
Blackface minstrel songs
- (Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey
- Alabama Joe
- Angelina Baker
- Camptown Races
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
- Ching-a-Ring Chaw
- Clare de Kitchen
- Coal Black Rose
- Coon song
- De Wild Goose-Nation
- Dixie (song)
- Gentle Annie (song)
- Gumbo Chaff
- Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
- I Ain't Got Time to Tarry
- I'm Going Home to Dixie
- I'm Gwine ober de Mountain
- Jimmy Crack Corn
- Jingle Bells
- Johnny Roach
- Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
- Jump Jim Crow
- Kingdom Coming
- List of blackface minstrel songs
- Mary Blane
- Massa's in De Cold Ground
- Miss Lucy Long
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Oh! Susanna
- Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
- Old Aunt Jemima
- Old Black Joe
- Old Dan Tucker
- Old Folks at Home
- Ole Bull and Old Dan Tucker
- Owl Creek Quickstep
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Ring, Ring de Banjo
- Root hog or die
- Seely Simpkins Jig
- Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
- Sich a Getting up Stairs
- The Boatman's Dance
- The Glendy Burk
- Turkey in the Straw
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Wait for the Wagon
- Walk Along John
Public domain music
- All Hail to Massachusetts
- Are You Washed in the Blood?
- Blessed Redeemer
- Camptown Races
- Choral Public Domain Library
- Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Down by the Bay
- Down by the Riverside
- Free Software Song
- Give Me Jesus
- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness
- Happy Birthday to You
- I Am a Pilgrim
- International Music Score Library Project
- Jesus Loves Me
- Jesus Paid It All
- Johnny Johnny Yes Papa
- La Bamba (song)
- List of public domain tangos
- Maggie May (folk song)
- Musopen
- Nothing but the Blood of Jesus
- O Canada
- Onward, Christian Soldiers
- Open Goldberg Variations
- Parabéns a Você
- Public domain music
- Rockin' Robin (song)
- Stand by Me (Charles Albert Tindley song)
- The Badger Drive
- The Cat Came Back
- The Old Rugged Cross
- The Welcome Table
- This Is My Father's World
- This Little Light of Mine
- When They Ring Those Golden Bells
- When We All Get to Heaven
Songs about Pennsylvania
- Allentown (song)
- Black and Yellow
- Camptown Races
- Freedom of '76
- Hail, Pennsylvania!
- Home for the Holidays (song)
- Oleanna (song)
- Pennsylvania (song)
- Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song)
- Pennsylvania Polka (song)
- Philadelphia Freedom (song)
- Seven (Taylor Swift song)
Songs about horses
- A Horse with No Name
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Beer for My Horses
- Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
- Camptown Races
- Chestnut Mare
- Crazy Horses
- High Horse (Kacey Musgraves song)
- Horse Outside
- I Got the Hoss
- La Jument de Michao
- Movie Magg
- New Pony
- Old Town Road
- Paul Revere (song)
- Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
- Run for the Roses (song)
- Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
- Seven Horses in the Sky
- Skewball
- Tennessee Stud
- The Galloping Major (song)
- The Lion and the Unicorn
- The Old Gray Mare
- The Strawberry Roan (song)
- The Unicorn (song)
- Wild Horses (Rolling Stones song)
- Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphey song)
Songs written by Stephen Foster
- Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway
- Angelina Baker
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Camptown Races
- For the Dear Old Flag, I Die
- Gentle Annie (song)
- Hard Times Come Again No More
- Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
- List of songs written by Stephen Foster
- Massa's in De Cold Ground
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Oh! Susanna
- Old Black Joe
- Old Folks at Home
- Open Thy Lattice Love (song)
- Ring, Ring de Banjo
- The Glendy Burk
- Willie Has Gone to War
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camptown_Races
Also known as Camp Town Races, Campdown Races, Camptown Ladies, De Camptown Ladies, De Camptown Races, Do Dah Day, Gwine to Run All Night, Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races.
, Washington Irving, 1860 United States presidential election.