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Silver Threads Among The Gold - Richard Jose (recorded 12/10/1904)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hCJkFcj738&hd=1Silver Threads Among The Gold - John McCormack 1925
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsf0Aj0cPc&hd=1Silver Threads Among The Gold - Amelita Galli-Curci 1923
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBi_6FvcAGA&hd=1Silver Threads Among The Gold - Maud Powell 小提琴獨奏版 (recorded 6/24/1914)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUiqPY3JZPk&hd=1piano accompanist: George Falkenstein
Silver Threads Among The Gold - Jan Peerce 1950
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twkgyMtA_fo&hd=1Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold,
Shine upon my brow today,
Life is fading fast away.
But, my darling, you will be,
Always young and fair to me,
Yes, my darling, you will be
Always young and fair to me.
Chorus:
Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold,
Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away.
When your hair is silver white,
And your cheeks no longer bright,
With the roses of the May,
I will kiss your lips and say,
Oh! My darling, mine alone, alone,
You have never older grown!
Yes, my darling, mine alone,
You have never older grown!
chorus
Love can never more grow old,
Locks may lose their brown and gold;
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know,
Never, never winter’s frost and chill;
Summer warmth is in them still;
Never winter’s frost and chill,
Summer warmth is in them still.
chorushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Threads_Among_the_Gold"Silver Threads Among the Gold", first copyrighted during 1873, was an extremely popular song in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today it is a standard of barbershop quartet singing. The lyrics are by Eben E. Rexford, and the music by Hart Pease Danks.
BackgroundIn 1930, an Associated Press story published in the New York Times gave some background on the writing of these lyrics. We quote the article:
"Silver Threads Song Traced to Poet’s ‘Re-Hash’ on Order" Shiockton, Wis. (AP).—The love ballad, “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” which has stirred the hearts of more than one generation, was not the inspiration of an aging poet but a “re-hash” produced on order. The story developed after the unveiling of a monument here in honor of the author of the words, Eben E. Rexford, who died in 1916. Rexford made a living by writing verse and flower and garden articles for magazines. When he was 18, he wrote and sold for $3 some verses entitled “Growing Old.” Later, H. P. Danke, composer of the music for “Silver Threads,” wrote to him requesting words for a song. Rexford dug into his scrapbook and revised “Growing Old.”
When Rexford spoke about the song, he explained that he worked during college by writing, and it was when he was in college that Danks sent him a request for lyrics, offering to pay three dollars for each song. Rexford submitted nine songs and received $18.00, but no accounting of which six had been accepted or which three had been rejected. In telling the story of the song, Rexford said that he didn't know whether he had been paid $3.00 for it or nothing, since he didn't know if it had been among the six accepted or the three rejected. Rexford first heard the song when a company of Oneida Indians gave a concert in Shiocton, Wisconsin and sang it there.
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