Wes & other fellow Twaniacs ---

    The soundtrack has been out since mid-November, and includes perhaps 75
percent of the music used in the documentary.
    In the film itself, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" is played over and over in
several variations, as is "Old Rosin the Beau." What threw me completely was
the inclusion of "The Sidewalks of New York" in a late 1860s-early 1870s
reference, a good 50 years (at least) before it was written. That's not on
the soundtrack.
    Also, one of Sam's very favorite songs, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," is
played down.
    Could the evil forces of political correctness be at work here?

Kathy O'Connell
Record-Journal
Meriden, Conn.
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