Nelly Bly - Stephen Foster - Robert Shaw Chorale.avi

Sheer delight. This charming, melodic Stephen Foster song is sung with verve and tenderness, by The Robert Shaw Chorale. From their album 'Stephen Foster Favorites'.

--NELLY BLY LYRICS--

Nelly Bly! Nelly Bly! Bring the broom along,
We'll sweep the kitchen clean, my dear,
And have a little song.
Poke the wood, my lady love
And make the fire burn,
And while I take the banjo down,
Just give the mush a turn.

Chorus:
Hi, Nelly! Ho Nelly !
Listen, love, to me,
I'll sing for you and play for you
A dulcet melody.

Nelly Bly has a voice like a turtle dove,
I hear it in the meadow and I hear it in the grove.
Nelly Bly has a heart warm as a cup of tea,
And bigger than the sweet potatoes down in Tennessee.

Chorus

Nelly Bly shuts her eye when she goes to sleep.
When she wakens up again her eyeballs start to peep.
The way she walks, she lifts her foot,
And then she brings it down;
And when it lights, there's music there
In that part of the town.

Chorus

[agnaldodepaula]

Acho que só eu sou um brasileiro curtindo essas músicas às 00:00 e amando. Como devia ser bom essa época!

[坂本龍一-uc]

Beautiful American folk songs !
Composer Stephen Foster is really great.

[TalexxAltava]

Nellie Bly (the reporter) brought me here, she's my hero!

[selkiesealion]

I will watch the "Nelly Bly" movie when it premiers on Lifetime TV next week.
We learned this song in elementary school, in the early 1960s.
Stephen Foster wrote beautiful American folk music. Too bad Foster died so young, at age 37. I love the banjo...as in bluegrass style music...beautiful.

[mdb]

Simply outstanding, one of the best renditions I have heard. Superior tone and clarity by the singers!

[riverwildcat]

This is a great piece, and deserves to be in the Pantheon of American folk classics.

[UnclaimedFr]

to Dan Bloom:
Thanks much Dan, for your summary of this spot in history! Stephen Foster's song was published in 1850, and was very popular (and is enjoyed to this day). Elizabeth Cochran (1864-1922) joined the staff of the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885, and took the name Nellie Bly from the song. As you pointed out, the spelling "Nellie" was an editorial error, and stuck throughout Cochran(e)'s writings.
Best Regards,
David

[UnclaimedFr]

Indeed, and thank you for stopping by and commenting, mdb6254! The RSC set such a high standard. Glad you enjoyed it!
Best Regards,
David

[UnclaimedFr]

Agreed, Gregory--and thanks for visiting! So enjoyable a song.
Best Regards,
David

[janvermaak]

This is superior music even for a Afrikaans speaker like mm Good night

[curtisroberts]

Stephen C Foster was ahead of his time with his music. Unfortunately his music generally only got played in saloons because it was not considered to be in a proper wiring style. Stephen Foster never lived to see his music played in an Opera house. His music now considered to be the best influential music of the time. In 1855, and on his music in the West was the most requested in most saloons. Even the notorious Doc Holiday loved his music as did Luke Short who along with Doc Holiday owned many saloons where the piano players could always be heard playing his musical arrangements. Stephen C Foster wrote hundreds of musical arrangements also wiring the original version of
O'Susanna but died at a young age living from 1844-1880. He was one of a kind never too be matched!

[josephcarlbreil]

I recall that a Pennsylvania-Seashore passenger service between New York City and Atlantic City was called "Nellie Bly" in the 1950s.

[alexhood]

im going to be nellie bly on may 5 and theres still alot to do wish me luck its gonna be hard to be the best female jurnalist ever

[Teddyb]

Magical, Seems as though Stephen Foster could have had The Robert Shaw Chorale in mind when he wrote these lovely songs.

[UnclaimedFr]

Done. Thanks for visiting!
Best Regards,
David

[mariodennis]

Elizabeth Cochran aka 'Nellie Bly' led me hear. Curious how her pen name was influenced by this song.

[nellycusi]

Hermosa melodia, me siento orgullosa de las labores que realizo la periodista  Elizabeth Jane Cochran "Nelly Bly". Por favor, me podrian dar la letra de la cancion. Sldos Nelly.

[belencasalia]

Thumbs up if you're here because of today's doodle for Nellie Bly's birthday

[MrDanbloom]

Today in Media History: In 1889, journalist Nellie Bly began a trip ‘around the world in 72 days’

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by David Shedden
Published Nov. 14, 2014 8:09 am
On November 14, 1889, journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochran) began a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.

She completed the trip with eight days to spare and soon wrote the book, “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days.”

“Nellie Bly was an American journalist known for her investigative and undercover reporting. She earned acclaim in 1887 for her exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell’s Island in New York City, and achieved further fame after the New York World sent her on a trip around the world in 1889.
….she traveled around the world in an attempt to break the faux record of Phileas Fogg, the fictional title character of Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, who, as the title denotes and the story goes, sails around the globe in 80 days. Given the green light to try the feat by the New York World, Bly embarked on her journey from New York in November 1889, traveling first by ship but later also via horse, rickshaw, sampan, burro and other vehicles. She completed the trip in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds — setting a real world record, despite her fictional inspiration for the undertaking.”
– “Nellie Bly”
Biography.com
2002 U.S. stamp, Poynter.org Image
2002 U.S. stamp, Poynter.org Image

“In the famous novel Around The World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, an Englishman, Phileas Fogg, sets off to circle the world in the fastest time possible and for the sole purpose of winning a gentleman’s wager.
In others of his books, Jules Verne specialized in amazing developments of science and technology still to come. He forecast the invention of airplanes, the submarine, even rockets to the moon. But in Around the World in 80 Days he wrote only of what, theoretically, was already possible when the book appeared, in 1873, the heyday of such nineteenth century wonders as the Suez Canal and the new transcontinental railroad across America. The world had become a great deal smaller, and this Verne dramatized as no one ever had.
Yet it was not until 1889 that anyone dared try what Phileas Fogg had done and the lone adventurer who did was neither a gentleman nor ficticious, but an intrepid young American woman who was determined to make the journey even faster and with a lot more than a bet riding on the outcome.
She was Nellie Bly and she stands now in history as one of the earliest of a long line of women who distinguished themselves in what had been the all-male world of journalism and thereby brought increasing interest and vitality to the pages of American newspapers.”
– David McCullough Introduction
PBS American Experience, “Around the World in 72 Days”
The PBS American Experience program also reminds us about “The Nellie Bly Song.”

“In her first few articles for the Pittsburgh ‘Dispatch, ’ Elizabeth Jane Cochran’s byline read ‘Orphan Girl.’ The name worked well for these articles, but the paper’s editor, after adding her to his staff, decided that she needed a name that was ‘neat and catchy.’ The men in the newsroom made suggestions and the name ‘Nelly Bly’ was proffered. The name had been made famous by one of Pittsburgh’s favorite sons, the great songwriter Stephen Foster. In his haste, though, Madden spelled the Nelly of the song as ‘Nellie.’”
And here is the song that changed Elizabeth Cochran into Nellie Bly:

[sneadh]

Robert Hampson has a great album  of Foster songs, "American Dreamer" done in authentic period style, but Nelly Bly is not on it.  This is the best version I've found.