Back Home Again in Indiana

( Back Home Again in ) Indiana is a song by Ballard MacDonald (text) and James F. Hanley [A 1] ( music) composed and was first released in January 1917. Although not the official anthem of the U.S. state, it is the most well-known song that is associated with Indiana. After his release he was covered jazz standard and style across many performers.

Genesis

The genesis of the song begins with Paul Dresser (1858-1906), elder brother of the writer Theodore Dreiser. He had his biggest hit in 1897 with On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, the government of Indiana in 1913 took over as the anthem. The resulting four years later song by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley was so heavily based on the music and its text to the popular Tin Pan Alley song Dressers that his brother wanted to try a plagiarism process according to Dresser's death (of which it publisher, the for leaving ) because Hanley and MacDonald had only received by the publisher for permission to take a few bars. Indiana borrowed the original song the lines On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, as well as other key words like moonlight, candlelight, fields, new- mown hay, Sycamores and Wabash River.

Consisting of 32 bars melody of the song is written in song form A1 -B -A2 -C; the song is interpreted at a moderately rapid to rapid pace.

Use of the song in a car race in Indianapolis

The rendition of the song Back Home Again in Indiana is one of the highlights at the annual preparations for the Indianapolis 500 auto race, especially since 1972 by the song by Jim Nabors. This tradition began in 1946 with the tenor James Melton; Another well-known vocalists were Dinah Shore, Dennis Morgan, Mel Tormé, Vic Damone, Ed Ames and Peter DePaolo.

Back Home Again in Indiana as a jazz standard

As early as 1917 was ( Back Home Again in ) Indiana a popular day hit and was subsequently a frequently played jazz standard. For Columbia Records on January 30, 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz took him on tape; this was one of the first and well sold early jazz records. Many decades was the song in the repertoire of Louis Armstrong, who opened his appearances with the number. On April 18, 1929 Red Nichols took him on with his Five Pennies [A 2] for Brunswick; this version reached # 19 in October 1929 of the charts. In the swing era, the song was a popular number for jam sessions; he was recorded, inter alia, by many musicians this time, such as Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins and Art Tatum and Lester Young [A 3]. Based on Indiana Charlie Parker wrote with Miles Davis in 1947 as a bebop head his composition Donna Lee. Further revisions of the subject in modern jazz originated by Fats Navarro (Ice Freezes Red ) and Lennie Tristano ( JuJu ). Indiana has also been interpreted in the postwar era of Charlie Parker, Erroll Garner, Kay Thompson, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson [A 4] René Thomas, and later by Rosemary Clooney, Oskar Klein, Joey DeFrancesco and Gary Burton.

Use in the film

1952 was ( Back Home Again in ) Indiana in Walter Lang's film biography With A Song in My Heart use, the actress Susan Hayward was doubled for vocally by Jane Froman. In 1959, the song was included in the musical film The Gene Krupa Story, and in the Red Nichols biopic The Five Pennies. Later the song was also in the sports movie free throw (1986) and in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown (1999), in which the release of Red Nichols was played.