The WPA? Wasn’t that one of those “socialist” projects founded by FDR?
And if he’s planning on using Woody’s song as a theme about a new deodorant, I expect the consumer public would find “Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,” to be among the least puzzling of the lyrics.
Big error:Via Wikipedia:""Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river’s federal hydroelectric facilities."NOT the WPA. The BPA may be a Federal agency (and still exists under the aegis of the Department of Energy), but was not a WPA formation.
gammaguy about 5 years ago
The WPA? Wasn’t that one of those “socialist” projects founded by FDR?
And if he’s planning on using Woody’s song as a theme about a new deodorant, I expect the consumer public would find “Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,” to be among the least puzzling of the lyrics.
Andrew Sleeth about 5 years ago
♪ Of course, I don’t like dictators none myself,
but then I think the whole country ♪
♪ it outta be run by e-lec-tricity
— Woody Guthrie
jeffchrz Premium Member about 5 years ago
I had that Columbia deodorant jingle idea in fourth grade. I think most of us did when we first heard that song.
IshkaBibel1 about 5 years ago
No need to look it up. WPA materials are public domain.
AlexanderMitchell about 5 years ago
Big error:Via Wikipedia:""Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river’s federal hydroelectric facilities."NOT the WPA. The BPA may be a Federal agency (and still exists under the aegis of the Department of Energy), but was not a WPA formation.
Yeah, so call it an “artificial folk song.”