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Thread #116137 Message #2510282
Posted By: pdq
08-Dec-08 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: RE: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family son
"Mid the Green Fields of Virginia" sounds like an older Heart Song, but the author Charles K. Harris was at the center of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters starting in the mid 1890s. He wrote such hits as "After the Ball Was Over".