Talk:Old Folks at Home

message: This isnt a big thing but the song in the DDR Mario Dance Mix gamecube game in World Four Stage One, a song entitled "Frozen Pipes" is played and it is based on the song "Old Folks at Home", the plot of this stage is that you are going through a pipe and trying to find the exit, use this if you wish, why not? I posted it here in case the creator of this entry does not wish for this to be on the main page felinoel 00:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some 18 years later, I'm just about to publish an edit adding Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix to "Other film/TV appearances"—which I'm renaming "Other media appearances"—and it occurred to me I should check the talk page in case there's a reason the list is only film and TV. Since no one ever answered you either way, I'll go ahead and publish. Hhhguir (talk) 08:58, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  DDR Mario Mix 

message: The article doesn't say whether Foster wrote the music as well as the lyrics. Valetude (talk) 13:56, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It is generally understood that if only one person is credited with a writing credit for a song, then that person wrote both the music and the lyrics. In this case, the infobox explicitly states that he wrote both the tune and the lyrics, while the text of the article credits him as the writer. If the lyrics were written for a traditional tune, it would be noted (see What Child is This? as an example). Horologium (talk) 21:43, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, Horo, missed that one (a little easy to miss, perhaps?). In those cases where someone is both composer and lyricist, readers might be interested to know in which role the author was generally more notable. Valetude (talk) 22:17, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Words and music? 

message: A New York Times article is cited to indicate that Foster never really considered using the Pee Dee River in the lyrics (i.e. his brother suggested it and he immediately rejected the idea). However, at http://gulahiyi.blogspot.com/2009/12/way-down-upon-pee-dee-river.html you can see a photograph of Foster's handwritten draft manuscript of the lyrics, in which Pee Dee appears and is then underlined with Swanee written as a replacement. The New York Times article therefore appears to be incorrect.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.5.239 (talk) 15:34, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original lyrics 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I can find no passage in The Souls of Black Folk that resembles even slightly the assertion about DuBois's interpretation of the song. And I note that no citation is given. I suggest that the relevant sentence (currently the second sentence under "Lyrics revisions") be deleted or stringently amended. Wfbrooks (talk) 02:06, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  W. E. B. Du Bois