Subject: Happy! - June 20 From: Abby Sale Date: 20 Jun 05 - 07:25 AM Happy Birthday! Jimmy Driftwood was born 6/20/1907 [and 7/17/1917] (d7/12/1998) Busy feller; he composed (or collected and re-composed) over 5,000 songs, many of them dealing with some element of America's past and its history. Wrote words to "Battle of New Orleans," "Soldier's Joy" "Tennessee Stud," "Wilderness Trail," etc. He also created a center for the study of folk music at The University of Central Arkansas. Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky |
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