Florida has a campaign to have a new state song. The old one is "Old Folks At Home" which has some overtones of rascist language since Stephen foster wrote it at a time when he could make money selling sheet music for "minstrel shows" (You may not be aware the great songwriter Stephen Foster died on the streets of Philadelphia living in a cardboard box with 38 cents in his pocket, and now, adding insult to injury, the state of Florida rolled him from his fame of writing our state song)
People were asked to sign on the myflorida.com and vote for contestants of our choice for the new state song, but there is a sort of underground movement afoot for this guy, so if you could go to some florida tourist destination websites and ask if this could be used to promote tourism please do! he is a great guy! : Original Message ----- From: grant peeples To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:00 PM Subject: THE new State Song of Florida Well they held a contest for the new State Song of Florida because.....well, I'm not sure why. Anyhow, I wrote one and mailed it in but I didn't win the contest. I'm thinking maybe it got lost in the mail. In any event, overcoming my depression at having lost a sure shot at immortality, I made a, um, music video out of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgHSVYiq4M I'm thinking maybe the State my want to use it to promote tourism or something.
