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From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed")
(writer: Stephen Foster - public domain)
Wikipedia states "Gwine to Run All Night”, or “De Camptown Races" (popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published in February 1850. Another edition was published in 1852 with guitar accompaniment under the title, "The Celebrated Ethiopian Song/Camptown Races". In 1974 Richard Jackson wrote,
“Foster quite specifically tailored the song for use on the minstrel stage. He composed it as a piece for solo voice with group interjections and refrain ... his dialect verses have all the wild exaggeration and rough charm of folk tale as well as some of his most vivid imagery ... Together with "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races" is one of the gems of the minstrel era.”
Jeff messed with Foster’s original lyric and wrote some of his own original verses to bring the song home to Tumbleweed
Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters.
Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.
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Title Camptown Races
ISRC CAWD51300044
From the Jeff Wyatt album: Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly's "Tumbleweed")
(writer: Stephen Foster - public domain)
Wikipedia states "Gwine to Run All Night”, or “De Camptown Races" (popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published in February 1850. Another edition was published in 1852 with guitar accompaniment under the title, "The Celebrated Ethiopian Song/Camptown Races". In 1974 Richard Jackson wrote,
“Foster quite specifically tailored the song for use on the minstrel stage. He composed it as a piece for solo voice with group interjections and refrain ... his dialect verses have all the wild exaggeration and rough charm of folk tale as well as some of his most vivid imagery ... Together with "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races" is one of the gems of the minstrel era.”
Jeff messed with Foster’s original lyric and wrote some of his own original verses to bring the song home to Tumbleweed
Canadian west coast comedy scriptwriter MIKE REILLY of Canamera Entertainment (Radio Comedy Shows) has created another gem to add to his growing repertoire of radio ready audio drama productions. This time it’s built on a cowboy western theme, entitled TUMBLEWEED; a fictional Wild West frontier town complete with colorful period characters.
Every movie or audio drama deserves a corresponding musical soundtrack. With this in mind, Mike hired Jeff to create suitable music for this fun Wild West production and "Wanted (Soundtrack to Mike Reilly’s “Tumbleweed”)" was thus conceived.
Work type Music
Tags soundtrack, whimsical, americana, folk
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Identifier 1401129807874
Entry date Jan 12, 2014, 2:00 AM UTC
License All rights reserved
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Author. Holder Jeff Norbert Wyatt. Date Jan 12, 2014.
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