Music Used on the Series

Season 6, episode 15: 46:28: Josh and Gabe sing about being glad to be home. Probably made up for this episode.

Season 6, episode 16: 27:13: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and this surprised me. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed by Wallace Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865. I would have thought it was older and probably traditional. Beautifully sung by Ethel Waters. 31:20: "Do Lord, Remember Me." Said to be a 19th Century African American spiritual of which the origin is lost. This is probably the most popular of several versions and was not printed until the 1920s although of older origin. 38:31: Humming, probably another spiritual, but I don't recognize it.

Season 6, episode 17: Music: 34:20: "Oh, all the way to Charlottetown, long time ago," or maybe Charlotte's Town. If it's a real song, not enough of it here to find it.

Season 6, episode 19: 0:04: "Skip to my Lou," which dates to the 1840s. 2:36: "Buffalo Gals,"" a traditional American song, written and published as "Lubly Fan" in 1844 by the blackface minstrel John Hodges, who performed as "Cool White."

Season 6, episode 22: 17:06: Israel sings, "Here Comes the Prince," a parody of "Here Comes the Bride," which is technically called the "Bridal Chorus." It was written in 1850 as part of an opera called Lohengrin, composed by Richard Wagner. 23:27: "La Marseillaise," the national anthem of France, written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. 38:34-40:41: Waltz tune. 40:52-44:55: Dance tune, starts out as "Down in the Valley" and transitions several times into something else and back to "Down in the Valley." "Down in the Valley" is found in Appalachia, the American South and Lower Midwest. The song was collected by folklorist and professor at the University of Missouri, Henry Marvin Beldin in 1909. Most of the first recorded versions of this song were called "Birmingham Jail," based off the paragraph of lyrics referring to the jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Guitarist Jimmie Tarlton claimed to have written the Birmingham jail paragraph of lyrics in 1925 while he was jailed in Birmingham for moonshining, which is very possible since he and his partner Tom Darby were the first to record this as "Birmingham Jail" on November 10, 1927, in Atlanta, Georgia. 46:12-48:30: Starts out as "Sweet Betsy from Pike," transitions into something else and back to "Sweet Betsy from Pike." "Sweet Betsy from Pike" was written in 1858 by John A. Stone.

This marks the last use of music on the series.