LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Song of the South
built 606 days ago
Besides the honorary award to James Baskett, Song of The South was Oscar nominated for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (Daniele Amiftheatrof, Paul J. Smith, Charles Woolcot). The film won Best Original Song for Zip-A-Dee-Doo_Dah! (Allie Wrubel (music), Ray Gilbert (lyrics).
Source:
Those lines from "Song of the South," a legendary hit by the country-rock band Alabama, express the historical sentiment of many in the South. For many years, all right-thinking Southerners were Democrats. After all, the Republicans were the party of Abraham Lincoln and the War of Northern Aggression. Folks down South had neither forgotten nor forgiven Sherman's March to the Sea, or the occupying troops and carpetbaggers who came during Reconstruction.
Source:
The song "Look at the Sun" is marketed as one of the songs from the movie, though it is not actually in the film. There are only five minutes of the movie without any music.
Source:
In April, 1938, Ruth married Edward Rolf, who played her husband; John in Song of the South,. They became the parents of two children; Karen Elizabeth (1941) and Jon Erick (1942), but were divorced in 1946.
Source:
As with other minstrel material, "Dixie" entered common circulation among blackface performers, and many of them added their own verses or altered the song in other ways. Emmett himself adopted the tune for a pseudo-African American spiritual in the 1870s or 1880s. The chorus changed to:
Source:
If you’ve never seen Song of the South, the post includes several clips from the film. I’ll put them here at a later date, but in the mean time read the essay and see part of the film for yourself.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Song of the South