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Moving west songs
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Keith and Rusty McNeil
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Riverside, Calif. : WEM Records, [1989]
- ℗1989
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 1878360108
- OCLC
- ocn593726867
- Credits
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- Keith and Rusty McNeil, narration, vocals, guitars, and other instruments, with other singers and instrumentalists
- Previously published as compact disc.
- Program notes laid in container.
- Traditional and popular songs "with historical narration."
- Disc 1. (Territorial expansion and abolition:) Old rosin the beau ; To the west -- Erie Canal -- Wisconsin emigrant -- Shantyman's life -- Jam on Gerry's rocks -- Shenandoah -- Darling Nellie Gray -- Steal away -- Abolitionist hymn -- Follow the drinking gourd -- (Texas and the Mexican War:) Cielito lindo -- El Capotin -- Texas Rangers -- Texas war cry -- Will you come to the bower -- Zachary Taylor -- Battalion song -- Buck him and gag him -- Leg I left behind me -- Las Mananitas
- Disc 2. (Minstrel shows and the California gold rush:) Old Dan Tucker -- Camptown races -- Hard times come again no more -- Oh, California -- Crossing the plains -- Days of forty nine -- Square dance -- California ball -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- California as it is -- (Immigrants from China, Ireland, and Germany:) Heathen Chinee -- John Chinaman -- John Chinaman's appeal -- Famine song -- No Irish need apply -- Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder -- Lather and shave 'em -- Night that Paddy Murphy died -- Bold fenian men -- Die Gedanken sind frei -- O Tannenbaum -- Du, du, liegst mir im Herzen