Ku Klux Klan Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music, 1867-2002

277 Pages·2003·115.176 MB·English

by  Danny O Crew

Ku Klux Klan Sheet Music
ALSO BY DANNY O. CREW
ANDFROMMCFARLAND
Su›ragist Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue
of Published Music Associated with the Women’s
Rights and Su›rage Movement in America,
¡795–¡92¡, with Complete Lyrics (2002)
Presidential Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue
of Published Music Associated with the American
Presidency and Those Who Sought the O‡ce (200¡)
Ku Klux Klan
Sheet Music
An Illustrated Catalogue of
Published Music, ¡867–2002
D O. C
ANNY REW
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Crew, Danny O., ¡947–
Ku Klux Klan sheet music : an illustrated catalog
of published music, ¡867–2002 / Danny O. Crew.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN-¡3: 978-0-7864-1513-7
(softcover : 50# alkaline paper)
¡. Ku-Klux Klan (¡866–¡869)—Songs and music—Bibliography.
2. Ku Klux Klan (¡9¡5– )—Songs and music—Bibliography.
3. Ku-Klux Klan (¡866–¡869)—Songs and music—Texts.
4. Ku Klux Klan (¡9¡5– )—Songs and music—Texts.
5. Ku-Klux Klan (¡866–¡869)—Songs and music—Discography.
6. Ku Klux Klan (¡9¡5– )—Songs and music—Discography.
I. Title.
ML¡28.K8C74 2003 0¡6.78'088'369—dc2¡ 2002¡54472
British Library cataloguing data are available
©2003 Danny O. Crew. All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying
or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
without permission in writing from the publisher.
On the cover: KKK (If Your Heart’s True It Calls to You),
by Kenneth A. Patterson, published ¡924 by E.S. Taborn, Jr.
[see entry K-2054]
Manufactured in the United States of America
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Box 6¡¡, Je›erson, North Carolina 28640
www.mcfarlandpub.com
Acknowledgments
Individuals—Yvonne Arnold; Richard Bondira; Ken Broyles; Mary Campbell; Teresa
Crew; Sam DeVincent; Dave and Janice Frent; Beverly Hamer; Craig Lacy; Martha
Lawrence; Sandy and Dennis Marronne; Kay Peterson; George Powell; Cynthia Requardt;
Larry Zimmerman.
Institutions—John Carter Brown Library, Brown University; Gaston County, North
Carolina, Public Library; The Indiana Historical Research Foundation; Lester Levy Col-
lection, Milton Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University; American Memory Collec-
tion, The Library of Congress; The Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Na-
tional Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; University of Southern
Mississippi.
v

Contents
Acknowledgments v
A Note to the Reader ix
Preface xi
Key to Symbols and Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
Part I. Printed Music Catalog 3
Part II. Recorded Music Catalog 227
Title Index 237
Composer and Artist Index 243
Publisher Index 246
Subject Index 249
vii

A Note to the Reader
History is a people’s memory, and
without a memory, a man is de-
moted to the lower animals.
Malcom X, ¡964
As an historian, I had no second rang true. They both are groups of self-pro-
thoughts about compiling a book of music claimed saviors of their religion, publicly
related to the Ku Klux Klan. The history of cloaked in patriotism and high ideals, fight-
the Klan, its influences during the ¡9th and ing to save their country from foreign con-
20th centuries, as well as its continuing im- tamination and religious liberalism.
pact on society today, all comprise impor- History is replete with movements
tant reasons for understanding just how the similar to the Taliban and the Ku Klux
Klan developed and how it gained its pop- Klan: Milo§eviW’s ethnic cleansing operation
ularity and influence in American life. in Bosnia, Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and
However, as a compassionate American, a Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition,
Southerner, and a public o‡cial, I did have to name only a few. What these individuals
a number of second thoughts about the pro- and groups all seem to have in common is
ject: Will people think I support the cause? the dichotomy between their public per-
Will this aid the cause of hate? sonas as righteous movements of concerned
What tipped the scale for me was the patriots, protecting their constituents from
9/¡¡ tragedy. In particular, one evening evil influences and social entropy, verses
while watching news coverage of its after- their private agendas of control, oppression,
math, there was a story featuring a protest and racial and or religious hatred through
march having to do with the tragedy. I can- the use of intimidation, terror and murder.
not even remember where it was or the exact Movements such as those listed above
nature of the protest, but what I do re- depend on deception and the apathy of the
member, was seeing a person carrying a sign general populace, as well as our propensity
reading “The KKK is America’s Taliban.” for wanting to forget distasteful and hurtful
The more I thought about it, the more it historical episodes. These groups slowly
ix