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Thread #71171 Message #1216419
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
29-Jun-04 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Blue Juniata
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Blue Juniata
The song remained popular for a long time after Mrs. Sullivan wrote it. Some have called it "the first hit song by a woman." The piano score by E. L. White, published with the song in 1846, was in most homes with a piano. Words and music are given in the book "Heart Songs, Melodies of Days Gone By," which was widely distributed in 1909 and after, and it also appears in some school songbooks.
I don't think any of her other songs ever survived for long. Her song "Oh! Boatmen Row Me O'er the Stream," is in American Memory in an arrangement for guitar, 1857. "We Cross the Prairies as of Old, Song of the Kansas Emigrants," 1854, words by J. G. Whittier, music by Mrs Sullivan, is mentioned in some western histories.