Music knows no gender..."You Are My Sunshine"
Another in my series She Said~He Said.
Jasmine Thompson
Jasmine was born to a Chinese mother and English father and spent her
childhood living in low-income housing. Her parents divorced early on
because of her father’s alcoholism and Jasmine found herself facing the
reality of a split home as a young kid, and Jasmine turned to music to
get her through the hard times.
She Said:
VIDEO: You Are My Sunshine
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| Jasmine Thompson |
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Joe Alterman
Ramsey Lewis
The wonderful Joe Alterman, one of my favorite young pianists, came by for an afternoon visit this weekend between his shows at
Winter's Jazz Club in Chicago. As you can see, we managed to play some music and have quite a few laughs!
He Said:
VIDEO "You Are My Sunshine"
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"
You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song written by
Jimmie Davis and
Charles Mitchell and first recorded in
1939. It has been declared one of the
state songs of
Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a
country music singer and
governor of the state in the years 1944–1948 and 1960–1964.
The song has been covered numerous times — so often, in fact, that it is "one of the most commercially programmed numbers in
American popular music." The song, originally
country music,
has "virtually lost" its original country music identity, and represents both the national flowering of country music and its
eventual absorption into the mainstream of American popular culture.
