Swanee
Encyclopedia
Swanee may refer to:
  • "Swanee
    Swanee (song)
    "Swanee" is an American popular song written in 1919 by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is most often associated with singer Al Jolson....

    ", a song by George Gershwin
    George Gershwin
    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

     and Irving Caesar; made popular by Al Jolson
    Al Jolson
    Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....

  • Suwanee River, misspelled by Stephen Foster
    Stephen Foster
    Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...

     in writing "Old Folks at Home
    Old Folks at Home
    "Old Folks at Home" is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851. It was intended to be performed by the New York blackface troupe Christy's Minstrels. E. P. Christy, the troupe's leader, appears on early printings of the sheet music as the song's creator...

    ".
  • Swanee (singer)
    Swanee (singer)
    John Swan, better known as Swanee, is a Australian rock singer. He was born John Archibold Dixon Swan in Glasgow, Scotland in 1952. He is the older brother of rock singer Jimmy Barnes and the uncle of singer and stage performer David Campbell. He emigrated to Australia with his family in 1961...

    , an Australian rock
    Rock music
    Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

     singer
  • Slide whistle
    Slide whistle
    A slide whistle is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it. Thus it has an air reed like some woodwinds, but varies the pitch with a slide. The construction is rather like a bicycle pump...

    , also called a swanee whistle
  • Swanee, a soft drink made by the Bob's-Cola
    Bob's-Cola
    Bob's-Cola was a beverage company and bottler located in the Midwest and Southeastern United States. It was founded in 1940 by Benjamin J. Frink.-Name and flavors:There was no 'Bob' at Bob's-Cola...

     company

See also

  • Sewanee (disambiguation)
  • Suwanee (disambiguation)
  • Suwannee (disambiguation)
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK