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Old songs are the best.

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  4. Stephen Foster, American songwriter (“Oh! Susanna”, “Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair”, “Old Folks at Home”), was born July 4, 1826, in Lawrenceville, which, at the time, was an independent municipality and is now a neighbohood in Pittsburgh. I’m going to get one of my banjos out and put it on my knee.

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  5. Crews remove controversial Stephen Foster statue in Oakland [Suburban Pittsburg]
    Tribune Review | 26 April 2018 | Bob Bauder

    Pittsburgh’s monument to native son Stephen Collins Foster has returned to its old stomping ground. A Department of Public Works crew removed the controversial statue of the Antebellum songwriter known as the father of American music early Thursday from Forbes Avenue in Oakland and hauled it by flatbed truck to a facility in Highland Park. The city will store it until officials find it a permanent home. The 1,000-pound, 10-foot-high bronze statue stood at the entrance to Oakland’s Schenley Park for 74 years

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    Pittsburgh debates future of Stephen Foster statue in Oakland
    WTAE.com | Aug 17, 2017 | Bob Hazen

    Pittsburgh city leaders are looking into whether a statue of musical pioneer Stephen Foster should be moved from a spot along Forbes Avenue in Oakland after years of criticism for its depiction of a black character from one of Foster’s songs. Foster, a Pittsburgh native who died in 1864, is famous for classic songs including “Oh! Susanna” and “Camptown Races.” Many of his songs were used in minstrel shows in which actors performed in blackface. The statue depicts Foster sitting above a shoeless banjo-playing “Uncle Ned”, a slave character from a Foster song.

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