• A Song of Kentucky is a 1929 American lost Pre-Code romantic musical film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It is an early sound film...
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    settings, have clouded its reception. The creation of the song "My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!" established a decisive moment within Stephen Foster's career...
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  • "Kentucky Rain" is a 1970 song written by Eddie Rabbitt and Dick Heard and recorded by Elvis Presley. It was recorded at American Sound Studio and features...
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  • origins may trace back to "Roll Along, Kentucky Moon", a similar waltz recorded 20 years prior by Jimmie Rodgers. The song has since been recorded by many artists...
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    Kentucky (US: /kənˈtʌki/ , UK: /kɛn-/), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States...
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  • "Kentucky Woman" is a 1967 song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond. Diamond recorded "Kentucky Woman" as his last hit single for Bang Records...
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    from Kentucky. It was titled "Farewell Song" in a songbook by Burnett dated to around 1913. A version recorded by Emry Arthur in 1928 gave the song its...
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    campaign song. "Hunters on Kentucky" was originally published ca. 1815 in Boston and celebrated the courage of the Kentuckians who fought in the Battle of New...
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    marks on Billboard charts. In 2022, he represented Kentucky on the American Song Contest with the song "Sparrow," finishing third place. Jordan Smith was...
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  • You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive (category Songs about Kentucky)
    the song in 1997 and recorded it on his debut album Aloha from Nashville. The song is about the difficult lives of underground coal miners in Kentucky. Scott...
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    Harlan is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,745 at the 2010 census, down from...
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  • "Blue Kentucky Girl" is a song written by Johnny Mullins, and originally recorded by American country music artist Loretta Lynn. It was released in May...
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    popularity of the song increased throughout the United States, Federal Hill was purchased by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, dedicated as a historic site...
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    The Kentucky Headhunters are an American country rock and Southern rock band originating in the state of Kentucky. The band's members are Doug Phelps...
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  • County, Kentucky, the home county of Prine's parents. The song references coal mining corporation Peabody Energy and the former coal mining town of Paradise...
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  • In Your Love (category Songs about Kentucky)
    "In Your Love" is a song written, recorded, and produced by American country music singer Tyler Childers. The song is the lead single to Childers' album...
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    than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home"...
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  • Dumas Walker (category The Kentucky Headhunters songs)
    "Dumas Walker" is a song that was written and recorded by Southern country rock band The Kentucky Headhunters. It was released in January 1990 as the...
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  • 2012 Kentucky (Black Stone Cherry album), 2016 "Kentucky", a song by Karl Davis from Tragic Songs of Life Kentucky (film), a 1938 film Kentucky (horse)...
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    is a county located in southeastern Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. Its county seat is Harlan. It is classified as a moist...
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    Old Kentucky Home is a short animation film originally released in June 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes...
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  • The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John...
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  • Ron Cyrus (category Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives)
    public servant in Greenup County, Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives for 11 consecutive...
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  • co-written state songs for two different states. Foster wrote the music and lyrics for "My Old Kentucky Home", adopted by Kentucky in 1928, and "Old...
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  • Mildred J. Hill (category Musicians from Louisville, Kentucky)
    in 1916, long before her song became famous. She is buried with her sister in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Mildred Hill's manuscripts...
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  • Sixteen Tons (category 1947 songs)
    Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Travis first recorded the song at the...
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    as Butcher Holler) is a coal-mining community located in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The town is the birthplace of country singer Loretta...
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  • Paducah is the name of multiple places in the United States of America: Paducah, Kentucky, a city on the Ohio River Paducah, Texas, a small town named after...
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  • sides of the Atlantic, and became a popular song during the folk revival when Joan Baez covered a version sung by the Ritchie family of Kentucky. The famous...
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  • mostly of covers of other musicians' songs. The first track on the album, a song titled "My Old Kentucky Home", is not the state song of Kentucky, but a composition...
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