From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V1 #124 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Friday, December 25 1998 Volume 01 : Number 124 Today's Subjects: ----------------- EFO: State Song News [EFOcrew@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:19:14 EST From: EFOcrew@aol.com Subject: EFO: State Song News Hello! Some good news for everyone, read on and go to www.roanoke.com/roatimes/state song for more information. I elected to not include the whole list of finalists, but trust me, it's on there. -CB Songwriters await the verdict By MADELYN ROSENBERG THE ROANOKE TIMES Rocker Tom Petty says the waiting is the hardest part. Bob Campbell, a country singer from Staunton, agrees with him. Campbell was one of the songwriters waiting in a General Assembly meeting room recently to hear which songs are still contenders to replace "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia." A subcommittee has collected 339 songs considered to be official entries for a new state song -- to be pared down to near 50 this month and to 10 after the legislative session ends. The committee will go to the General Assembly in January of 2000 with the winning entry, in hopes that the legislature will deem it the official state song, to be performed by school children and marching bands, choir groups and individuals. Sen. Charles Colgan, D-Manassas and the newest committee member, is hoping for something that will make the heart pound, like "God Bless America." The first week in December, the 13 committee members began to cut down the list from 339 -- and 17 hours of music. The panel members are aware only of the music, the numbers and the titles of the songs, and not the names or hometowns of the people who perform them "You get that squeezy feeling," said Lucas, who was the singer on Campbell's "Home Sweet Home, Virginia." The song is considered a semifinalist, because it received a nod from four or more members of the sub committee. Southwest Virginia had a number of finalists in the region from places like Roanoke, Dublin and Mouth of Wilson. Three committee members added more songs to the list of semi-finalists Dec. 12, which so far rests at 57. Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Augusta County, said that all 339 songs will likely become a part of a collection to be housed in the state library. That way, he said, all of the writers "will be a part of history." ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V1 #124 *****************************