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Title:
Ho! For California!
Description:
Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band Studio recording of this song available on the album "Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land." http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/volume1.htm Description: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War and added 1.2 million square miles to the United States (including California), was signed on February 2, 1848. A few days earlier, a New Jersey-born mechanic named James W. Marshall discovered gold on the American River in California's Sacramento Valley. Gold fever swept the world as news of the discovery and subsequent strikes traveled in letters carried by ship from San Francisco to the Atlantic ports and England. The population of California increased by 100,000 within two years. Ho! For California! was first sung that year at the send-off for a band of fortune hunters from Massachusetts. Borrowing portions of a Dan Emmett melody, Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. composed the song which was sung by his popular group The Hutchinson Family Singers. The song became an unofficial anthem for many bands of gold seekers. Please visit http://www.matthewsabatella.com for free song downloads, blog, upcoming concerts, pictures and more.
Author:
balladofamerica
Tags:
sabatella, traditional, american, folk, gold, 49er, california, banjo, fiddle,
Ho! For California!
Description:
Artist: Matthew Sabatella & the Rambling String Band Studio recording of this song available on the album "Ballad of America Volume 1: Over a Wide and Fruitful Land." http://www.balladofamerica.com/music/volume1.htm Description: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War and added 1.2 million square miles to the United States (including California), was signed on February 2, 1848. A few days earlier, a New Jersey-born mechanic named James W. Marshall discovered gold on the American River in California's Sacramento Valley. Gold fever swept the world as news of the discovery and subsequent strikes traveled in letters carried by ship from San Francisco to the Atlantic ports and England. The population of California increased by 100,000 within two years. Ho! For California! was first sung that year at the send-off for a band of fortune hunters from Massachusetts. Borrowing portions of a Dan Emmett melody, Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. composed the song which was sung by his popular group The Hutchinson Family Singers. The song became an unofficial anthem for many bands of gold seekers. Please visit http://www.matthewsabatella.com for free song downloads, blog, upcoming concerts, pictures and more.
Author:
balladofamerica
Tags:
sabatella, traditional, american, folk, gold, 49er, california, banjo, fiddle,
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