In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic African American spiritual.

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American folklore, encompasses the folk traditions that have evolved on the North American continent since Europeans arrived in the 16th century.

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

*" Davy " Crockett ( August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 ) was a 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician.

* Captain Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.

Their studies expanded to include Native American music, but still treated folk music as a historical item preserved in isolated societies.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States that began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).

*" Poor Paddy Works on the Railway " is a popular Irish and American folk song.

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Similar creatures are also found in Welsh, Norse and American folklore, such as aos sí (" tumulus folk ").

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

Variously referred to as roots music, American folk music, or old-time music, this tradition has exerted a strong influence on all forms of American music, including country, blues, and rock and roll.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

* Gene Austin ( 1900 – 1972 ), American singer

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* Animal ( Kesha album ), a 2010 album by American pop singer Ke $ ha

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1981 – Kari Jobe, American singer and songwriter ( Gateway Worship )

* 1984 – Max Bemis, American singer, musician, and songwriter ( Say Anything, Two Tongues, and Max Bemis and the Painful Splits )

* 1912 – Hound Dog Taylor, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1925 – Ned Miller, American singer and songwriter

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1947 – Alex Briley, American singer ( Village People )

* 1948 – Lois Reeves, American singer ( Martha and the Vandellas )

* 1950 – David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist ( The Partridge Family )

* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )

* 1971 – Nick Hexum, American singer and musician ( 311 )

* 1896 – Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1972 )

* 1925 – Johnny Horton, American singer and musician ( d. 1960 )

* 1943 – Bobby Vee, American singer

* 1953 – Merrill Osmond, American actor and singer ( The Osmonds )

* 1973 – Jeff Timmons, American singer and producer ( 98 Degrees )

* 1985 – Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American call girl, columnist, and singer

* 1986 – Dianna Agron, American actress, singer, and dancer

* 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

* 1961 – Yolanda Adams, American singer, producer, and actress

* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director