Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927

Randy Newman & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra,
cond. Roelof van Driesten.
Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1979

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Music

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• Randy
• Newman
• louisiana
• flood
• Katrina
• Evangeline
• Calvin
• Coolidge

[NuovoPiero]

As a native New Orleanian this song has always brought tears to my eyes. After Katrina it's almost unbearable....... but SO beautiful still.

[corbijo0920]

This is so beautiful. After Katrina, so heart wrenching. I think this became a sort of unofficial anthem for Lousiana. Thanks so much for posting.

[81Rudiger]

@twodollaz Prolly a Jew...Or a Justin Bieber or LMFAO fanboy...

[twotimespecial]

@tweaker214 "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races;that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters and jurors of Negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people..."

-Abraham Lincoln

[theiconoclasts]

@tweaker214 Hey! You're both wrong! The president who sat over the flood was, as both the year and the lyrics will tell you, Coolidge. Who was, would you believe, it a Republican. Wilson was a racist democrat, but the not racist democrat responsible for this particular disaster. MLK Jr. never espoused any partisan affiliation, although his views that we should spend many billions of dollars to create jobs for the unemployed, as well as funding for the poor don't jive with the right well at all.

[tweaker214]

@MusicWriter1965

Dear Unconscious Obamatron, W. Wilson was a Democrat, just as was every racist bastard from before the time of Lincoln and up to and including LBJ. MLK Jr. was a Republican initially, until he was bought off by the Democrat party to begin their stranglehold on idiots like you!

[MusicWriter1965]

This song did resonate tremendously after Katrina, but Newman wrote it in 1972, and it was about the actions that Woodrow Wilson took during the flood of '27, when he approved that they blow up the levees, flooding and destroying the farms of poor people in order to "save" the nicer homes owned by the wealthy. Another example of the Republicans' vicious, black-hearted evil and their filthy contempt for the poor. Not much has changed since then, has it?

[arthurvantongeren]

this is a briljant singer/songwrither.. is this a concert in the kuip?

[Lrg8607]

This sounds almost Identical to Sail Away

[NOitsjustme]

@solitaresister I can't stop listening either.

[desinga]

Gorgeous. So moving.

[twodollaz]

Who in the hell clicked "dislike"?