Hmm . . . Good question. What's a "genuine Seattle song"? The Museum of History (and Industry?)near the University of Washington should have background on who all were in the Denny par-tay. Were there any musicians on board? I imagine folks at the end of the Oregon trail sang spirituals, I'm sure some had a fiddle stashed in their kit. What was the status of folk music in 1850? I imagine the first Seattle music was probably in whatever the popular bag was, but it _would_ be interesting to know what the first song composed with a theme of "Seattle" might be - or about the rest of Washington state, for that matter ;)