“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”
Posted by Richard Saylor on Apr 12, 2016 in | Comments Off on “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” Stephen Foster is widely considered to be America’s first great songwriter. He was born in Lawrenceville, Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh, on July 4, 1826. His first composition was published when he was 18 years old, and he would go on to write more than 250 songs, hymns and instrumental works during his lifetime, becoming the most important composer of popular music in 19th-century America....read more