Thursday, February 16, 2012

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a love story of our friends and Stephen Foster

On our trip to the America West a few years ago, a congenial group of Taiwanese Americans from New Jersey and Pittsburgh were in the same bus.  We ourselves provided our own entertainment on bus; a friend of us sang Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, revealing that he first sang it to his future wife and continues to sing to this day as love never grows old.  Reminiscing the love pursuit of his wife in his younger days, Foster composed this song for the love of his wife, Jane (Jeanie).

John McCormack (tenor) sang Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Po9CZRzzWI&feature=related

This chorus is best heard by using a earphone,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMxk9bzAcYI&feature=related   

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