( A revised and extended edition of The Unconscious God ; with a Foreword by Swanee Hunt ).

Swanee Hunt was appointed as ambassador to Austria in 1993, where she was notable for writing a weekly newspaper column and radio program.

* Swanee Hunt

* Swanee Hunt

* John Swan ( born 1952 ), Australian rock singer, better known as Swanee

* Edwin Pearce Christy ( 1815 – 1862 ), minstrel, known for performing the Stephen Foster song " Old Folks at Home " ( aka " Swanee River ").

It was during this period that Foster would write most of his best-known songs: " Camptown Races " ( 1850 ), " Nelly Bly " ( 1850 ), " Old Folks at Home " ( known also as Swanee River, 1851 ), My Old Kentucky Home ( 1853 ), Old Dog Tray ( 1853 ), and Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair ( 1854 ), written for his wife Jane Denny McDowell.

Three Hollywood movies have been made of Foster's life: Harmony Lane ( 1935 ) with Douglass Montgomery, Swanee River ( 1939 ) with Don Ameche, and I Dream of Jeanie ( 1952 ), with Bill Shirley.

* Swanee River ( 1940 ), another fictionalized biographical film on Stephen Foster.

She began with her twice-a-week NBC series, Kate Smith Sings ( quickly expanded to six shows a week ), followed by a series of shows for CBS: Kate Smith and Her Swanee Music ( 1931 – 33 ), sponsored by La Palina Cigars ; The Kate Smith Matinee ( 1934 – 35 ); The Kate Smith New Star Revue ( 1934 – 35 ); Kate Smith's Coffee Time ( 1935 – 36 ), sponsored by A & P ; and The Kate Smith A & P Bandwagon ( 1936 – 37 ).

* Swanee River ( 1951 ), Buenos Aires

Tubman spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River ", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home ".

* " The Old Folks at Home ( Swanee River )" ( 1851 )

Susanna ", " Camptown Races ", " Old Folks at Home " (" Swanee River "), " Hard Times Come Again No More ", " My Old Kentucky Home ", " Old Black Joe ", " Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair ", and " Beautiful Dreamer "— remain popular more than 150 years after he composed them.

The Pee Dee River was the original river for Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home " ( commonly known by its first line, " Way down upon the Swanee River ").

In it, Jerry ( the " Joe ") demonstrates his humanity to the court by rendering the song " Old Folks at Home ( Swanee River )" in front of the jury.

" Old Folks at Home " ( also known as " Swanee Ribber " or " Suwannee River ") is a minstrel song written by Stephen Foster in 1851.

Gershwin's " Swanee " ( 1919 ) is a takeoff on the Foster song, and even contains the line, " I love the old folks at home.

" Under the title " Swanee River ," the song was recorded by Tony Sheridan in the early 1960s and is sometimes erroneously listed as an early recording by The Beatles due to their association with Sheridan at that time.

He studied medicine at the University of Rhode Island and then at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, but began singing again with the Swanee Quintet Juniors, and gave up his medical career.

Other memorable musical moments involve a duet of Stephen Foster's " Old Folks at Home " ( Swanee River ) with Martinelli's character playing the piano, and Red Buttons ' character playing the harmonica.

The University of the South Tigers ( also called Sewanee, and misspelled " Swanee " above ) withdrew from the SEC in 1940, de-emphasized athletics, and no longer competes at the Division I level.

The latter, which may be more precisely referred to as the slide or Swanee whistle, is commonly made of plastic or metal.

Later, when Ralph returns to the game show, the first question asked is, " Who is the composer of " Swanee River?

* The song is mentioned in Irving Berlin's " Alexander's Ragtime Band " ( 1911 ) in the line, " If you want to hear the ' Swanee River ' played in ragtime " and featured in 1936's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

It is " Swanee River ", which is " brand new " in the time the film is set.

* Swanee River is also the name of an Irish rock group situated in Derry.

Mammy characters were a staple of minstrel show, giving rise to many sentimental show tunes dedicated to or mentioning mammies, including Al Jolson's " My Mammy " from The Jazz Singer and Judy Garland's performance of " Swanee " from A Star is Born ( a song originally made popular by Jolson ).

One of his outstanding cameo appearances is his performance in Rhapsody in Blue where he dances to Robert Alda's piano playing of " Swanee ".

He led a small jazz band called the " Swanee Syncopaters ", and during the band's performances, Youngman often told jokes to the audience.

Al Jolson, determined to appear on screen somehow, persuaded the producer to film him instead of Larry Parks for the blackface " Swanee " number.

* " Swanee " w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin

* " Down Where The Swanee River Flows " w. Charles McCarron m. Charles S. Alberte

* " Take Me To That Swanee Shore " w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir

* In the Honeymooners episode, The $ 99, 000 Answer, Ed Norton warms up on the piano by playing the opening to Swanee River.

Their individual ties to George Gershwin --- Jolson introduced Gershwin's " Swanee " --- undoubtedly had much to do with their rapport.

In 1932, they wrote " Shadows on the Swanee ", followed in 1933 by " Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore ", their first big hit, for the Guy Lombardo Orchestra.

* 1912 Take Me To That Swanee Shore ( m. Lewis F. Muir )

Academy Award nominations went to Debbie Reynolds for Best Actress ; George Davis, E. Preston Ames, Henry Grace, and Hugh Hunt for Best Color Art Direction and Set Decoration ; Daniel L. Fapp for Best Color Cinematography ; Morton Haack for Best Color Costume Design ; Robert Armbruster, Leo Arnaud, Jack Elliott, Jack Hayes, Calvin Jackson, and Leo Shuken for Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment ; and Franklin Milton for Best Sound.

After being issued U. S. patent # 6, 281 on April 10, 1849, Hunt sold the patent to W. R. Grace and Company for $ 400 ( roughly $ 10, 000 in 2008 dollars ).

What Hunt failed to realize is that in the years to follow, W. R. Grace and Company would make millions of dollars in profits from his invention.

* Best Art Direction ( George Davis, Paul Groesse, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt )

In Asheville, Grace ( Bonnie Hunt ), an airport car-rental agent living with her mother ( Michael Learned ), quits her job and embarks on a long-delayed quest: facing the legal barriers that keep her from finding the son she gave up for adoption when she was a teenager.

In 1961 the film was nominated for Best Art Direction ( George W. Davis, Addison Hehr, Henry Grace, Hugh Hunt, and Otto Siegel ) and Best Sound ( Franklin Milton ), but failed to win either.