I just uploaded the latest in my series of Smile slideshows to Youtube, Cabin Essence ('The American Dream' Fan-Mix Slideshow). I hope you'll check it out and enjoy it.
Cabin Essence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u38toJ2HhqAThe other slideshows in the series so far:
Prayer
https://youtu.be/PcT_61jH5KIDo You Like Worms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCh80PqEes Good Vibrations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ef0H1Tl7Js Wonderful/Look/Child Is Father of the Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wzsgnv1J6oI'm In Great Shape/The Old Master Painter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHDT2NDsbnQThe Elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYwBNIPRAQWind Chimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM0HL6StgbsWhile I was doing this project and pondering Parks' words, I was reminded of this song 'Home In the Meadow' from my childhood. It was featured in the 1962 movie How The West Was Won and sung by Debbie Reynolds playing a frontier woman. The song was my introduction to the traditional 'Greensleeves' song, but this iteration has modern lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The similarities between 'Home In the Meadow' and the 'Home On the Range' section of 'Cabin Essence' are striking. I can't help but wonder about it's influence either conscious or otherwise, although I've never seen or heard it mentioned. In case you don't know the song I'm talking about, here's a link and the lyrics.
HOME IN THE MEADOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH40e25oDkYWritten by Sammy Cahn, theme in the 1962 movie, How the West Was Won, sung by Debbie Reynolds
Away, Away
Come away with me
Where the grass grows wild, where the winds blow free
Away, Away
Come away with me
And I'll build you a home in the meadow
Come, Come
There's a wondrous land
For the hopeful heart, for the willing hand
Come, Come
There's a wondrous land
Where I'll build you a home in the meadow
The stars, the stars
Oh how bright they'll shine
On a world that the Lord must have helped design
The stars, the stars
Oh how bright they'll shine
On that home we will build in the meadow
Come, Come
There's a wondrous land
For the hopeful heart, for the willing hand
Come. Come
There's a wondrous land
Where I'll build you a home in the meadow
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