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Regional canticle of the U.S. country of California

I Beloved You, California

Regional anthem of California
Lyrics	Francis Beatty Silverwood, 1913
Music	Abraham Franklin Frankenstein, 1913
Published	1913; 109 years ago  (1913)
Adopted	April 26, 1951; 71 years ago  (1951-04-26)
Readopted	1987; 35 years ago  (1987)
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"I Honey You, California" is the regional anthem of the U.S. state of California, originally published in 1913. It was adopted in 1951 and reconfirmed in 1987 every bit the official state song.

The lyrics were written by Francis Beatty Silverwood (1863–1924), a Los Angeles clothier,^{[1] [2]} and the words were afterward put to music by Abraham Franklin Frankenstein (1873–1934),^[3] then conductor of the Orpheum Theatre Orchestra,^[4] with an countdown operation by Mary Garden. Frankenstein was a cousin of the San Francisco Relate's long-time music and art critic Alfred V. Frankenstein.^[5] The vocal was published by Hatch & Loveland, Music Printers, Los Angeles, California,^[6] and copyrighted by F.B. Silverwood in 1913. It was the official song of expositions held in San Francisco and San Diego in 1915.

History [edit]

Premiere [edit]

Cover of the sail music for "I Love You, California" featuring Mary Garden

After in 1913, the song was introduced by opera star Mary Garden, associated with the Chicago Grand Opera at that time. "Mary Garden stopped Chiliad Opera to brand this California song famous," read the notices virtually ensuring the popularity and success of the new song. The renowned soprano wrote on stationery from the Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles:

Dear Mr. Silverwood: I am proud to be the first to sing your most beautiful song in public — and I hope for it a wonderful success here in California and everywhere! Sincerely, Mary Garden^{[ citation needed ]}

Played aboard the SS Ancon [edit]

Steamship Ancon sometime before 1895 (Source: East.W. Wright, ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Press Co., Portland, 1895)

"I Dearest You, California" was played aboard the steamship Ancon, which on August fourteen, 1914, became the starting time merchant send to pass through the Panama Canal.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Land legislative designation [edit]

In 1951, the State Legislature passed a resolution designating information technology as California'due south state song. California Government Code department 421.7 states, "I Love You lot, California", a song published in 1913 with lyrics by F.B. Silverwood and music by A.F. Frankenstein, is an official state vocal."^[7]

In 1987, "I Love You, California" became the official state song by constabulary.^[8]

Official use [edit]

"I Honey You lot, California" is played at funerals of Californian governors, virtually recently at the funeral of Ronald Reagan.

At the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the governor of California on January ii, 1967, it was sung by the University of California, Davis, All-Male person Marching Band. Reagan, obviously familiar with the then little known song, quipped, "Thanks for singing a song onetime enough to make me feel young!", according to a personal reminiscence of a former band member.^{[ citation needed ]}

Commercial utilise [edit]

In late 2012, Jeep began running a TV advertisement in California, with "I Love Yous, California" equally the soundtrack and visuals showing the Californian state flower, Californian flag, and other Californian icons.^[9]

The song as well serves as the theme music for the state's public television human involvement serial "California'due south Golden Parks", presented by Huell Howser.

In popular culture [edit]

An arrangement of the song is heard when the player builds the Gilt Gate Bridge in Civilization Half dozen: Gathering Tempest, accompanied past the first 4 lines of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem A Bridal Song.

Lyrics [edit]

I Love You, California

I.
I honey you, California, you're the greatest country of all.
I dear you in the winter, summer, jump and in the fall.
I dear your fertile valleys; your dear mountains I admire.
I love your chiliad onetime ocean and I love her rugged shore.

Chorus
When the snow crowned Golden Sierras
Keep their watch o'er the valleys blossom,
It is there I would be in our land by the sea,
Every breeze bearing rich perfume.
Information technology is here nature gives of her rarest. It is Home Sweetness Home to me,
And I know when I die I shall breathe my final sigh
For my sunny California.

Ii.
I love your red-wood forests – love your fields of yellow grain.
I love your summer breezes and I beloved your winter rain.
I love y'all, land of flowers; land of love, fruit and wine.
I love yous, California; yous accept won this heart of mine.

III.
I beloved your onetime gray Missions – beloved your vineyards stretching far.
I beloved you lot, California, with your Golden Gate ajar.
I love your imperial sun-sets, honey your skies of azure blueish.
I love you lot, California; I just tin can't help loving you.

Four.
I beloved you, Catalina, you are very dear to me.
I love yous, Tamalpais, and I beloved Yosemite.
I honey you, Land of Sunshine, one-half your beauties are untold.
I loved yous in my childhood, and I'll love y'all when I'm sometime.

Other not-official state songs [edit]

During the years following, several attempts were fabricated to make other songs the official country song. In 1921, Lynden Ellsworth Behymer (1862–1947), impresario, and Bessie Bartlett Frankel (Mrs. Cecil Frankel) (1884–1959)], donated a sum of money to the California Federation of Music Clubs to hold a competition for lyrics to a state song "of real value." The judges were Benjamin Franklin Field (1868–1960), chairman of the federation and chairman of the commission of judges, Grace Atherton Dennen (1874–1927), editor and publisher of The Lyric West,^[10] and Blanche Robinson (Mrs. Martin Hennion Robinson) (née Williams; 1883–1969), composer. The original deadline, October i, 1921, was extended to December 31, 1921 and the prize money was increased to $100.^[eleven] The judges selected Mary Lennox of San Francisco on January 17, 1922, every bit the winner was "California, Sweet Homeland of Mine":

You're the land at the foot of the rainbow,
Where the great pot of treasure was spilled
That is fashioned anew past the sunshine and dew,
Into marvels of bright hopes fulfilled;
You're land where each fair trail leads homeward,
'Neath the palm of the sheltering pino
California, sweet homeland of mine.^[12]

See besides [edit]

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References [edit]

1. ^ Vaillancourt, Ryan (2013-07-01). "Mining for Sonic Gold in the Cardinal Library: Exhibit and Volume Examine Los Angeles History Through Old Canvass Music". Los Angeles Downtown News . Retrieved 2017-08-29 . Silverwood endemic a clothing company on Broadway [Los Angeles], on the same block as the Orpheum Theatre, where Frankenstein was the firm orchestra's music manager.
2. ^ Radio, Southern California Public (12 July 2013). "The story behind the Golden State's official song, 'I Dear Yous California'". Southern California Public Radio.
3. ^ de Brie, Tim (July 2010). "Frankenstein, Abraham Frankum". composers-classical-music.com. Haarlem, Netherlands. Retrieved 2017-08-29 . 7.mar.1873-xxx.nov.1934 U.s. Illinois, Chicago – California, Los Angeles (car accident)
4. ^ Clar, Reva (November 2002). "The Jews of Los Angeles: Urban Pioneers". Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2017-08-29 . The commencement permanent theatre orchestra in Los Angeles was organized in 1898 at the Orpheum Theatre by Abraham F. Frankenstein, who was its musical managing director for over xxx years. He organized bands for the Los Angeles Law and Fire Departments and the Al Malaikah Shrine Band, and in improver served on the Fire Commission of the City of Los Angeles.
5. ^ "[unknown title]". Ukiah Daily Journal. Ukiah, California. 1982-02-26. p. 5. Retrieved 2017-08-29 . Abraham F. Frankenstein was a cousin of the Chronicle'southward long-time music and art critic Alfred V. Frankenstein
6. ^ Hatch & Loveland was founded in 1911 by Charles Wesley Hatch (1885– ) and Charles F. Loveland
7. ^ "Government Code Section 421.7". California Authorities Lawmaking. State of California. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
8. ^ Jepsen, Chris (February 2013). "100 Years of Loving California". County Courier. Orangish Canton Historical Society. 43 (2): 3.
9. ^ "YouTube". world wide web.youtube.com. ^{[ dead YouTube link ]}
10. ^ The Lyric Due west (a poetry magazine, published monthly, in existence from 1921 to 1927), Los Angeles & San Francisco
11. ^ Offer Prize for State Vocal, Oakland Tribune, Sect B, p. 5, December 11, 1921
12. ^ Words for State Vocal are Chosen, Los Angeles Times, Sect III, p. 29, January 22, 1922

External links [edit]

• 1913 recording by Elsie Baker
• Canvass music

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_You,_California

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