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State song of Colorado | |
| Lyrics | Arthur John Fynn, 1911 |
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| Music | Arthur John Fynn, 1911 |
| Adopted | May 8, 1915 |
| Succeeded by | Rocky Mountain High (equal status, added 2007) |
| Audio sample | |
Performance of Where the Columbines Grow (first verse and chorus), featuring piano and voice | |
Where the Columbines Grow is one of the two official state songs of the U.S. state of Colorado.[1] It was written and composed by Dr. Arthur John Fynn in 1911,[2][3] and was adopted on May 8, 1915.[4] In the early to mid-2000s, there was debate over replacing Where the Columbines Grow with John Denver's Rocky Mountain High or Merle Haggard's rare song Colorado. In 2007, the Colorado legislature named Rocky Mountain High as Colorado's second official state song, paired with Where the Columbines Grow.[5]
In October 1978, Dave Beadles, then the music director for 740 KSSS in Colorado Springs, petitioned Governor Richard Lamm to temporarily change the state song for Country Music Month to Colorado, written by Dave Kirby.[6] The petition was successful and Kirby was flown to Colorado for the occasion.[7]
- ^ Holstein-Friesian World. Holstein-Friesian World. 1915.
- ^ Robert G. Natelson (September 2015). "Reclaiming the Centennial State's Centennial Song: The Facts About Where the Columbines Grow" (PDF). Independence Institute.
- ^ The Colorado School Journal. Colorado Education Association. 1914.
- Stone, Wilbur Fiske (1919). History of Colorado. S. J. Clarke. - ^ An Act to Adopt the Song Entitled, 'Where the Columbines Grow,' Composed by A. J. Fynn, as the Official State Song of Colorado, Laws Passed at the Twentieth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado (Denver: Western Newspaper Union, 1915), p. 466.
- ^ Wolf, Jeffrey (March 13, 2007). "Lawmakers name 'Rocky Mountain High' second state song". KUSA-TV. Denver.
- ^ "Original versions of Colorado written by Dave Kirby | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
- ^ "NewspaperArchive® |dave-kirby historic newspaper articles including obituaries, births, marriages, divorces and arrests".
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