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Thread #15370   Message #777005
Posted By: JJ
04-Sep-02 - 03:29 PM
Thread Name: Discuss: My Grandfather's Clock (Henry Clay Work)
Subject: RE: Henry Work - Grandfathers Clock
I have a photo of me standing by the bronze bust of Henry Clay Work by Louisa Gudebrod in a park in Middletown, Connecticut. Civil War Monuments of Connecticut says, "The bust is supported by a rough-hewn granite stele which has a bronze plaque reading, in raised caps:
IN MEMORY OF HENRY CLAY WORK
AUTHOR OF
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
BORN IN MIDDLETOWN NEAR
THIS SITE OCTOBER 1 1832

A friend in Middletown told me that "Grandfather's Clock" is a very popular song in Japan, learned by all as schoolchildren, and that a Japanese TV crew had actually come to Middletown in search of the titular clock. I have never tried to verify this, however.

See also the 1975 Joan Morris album, "Who Shall Rule This American Nation? Songs by Henry Clay Work," (with Clifford Jackson, baritone, and the Camerata Chorus of Washington, D.C.) Nonesuch H-71317 (LP)

Side One 1. Who Shall Rule This American Nation? (1866) 2. Grafted Into the Army (1862) 3. Poor Kitty Popcorn, or The Soldier's Pet (1866) 4. When the "Evening Star" Went Down (1866) 5. The Buckskin Bag of Gold (1869) 6. "Come Home, Father!" (1864) 7. Uncle Joe's "Hail Columbia!" (1862)

Side Two 1. Grandfather's Clock (1876) 2. Kingdom Coming (1862) 3. The Picture On the Wall (1864) 4. "Now, Moses!" (1865) 5. Take Them Away - They'll Drive Me Crazy! (1871) 6. Agnes By the River (1868) 7. Crossing the Grand Sierras (1870) 8. The Silver Horn (1883)