Get your kicks on route 66! A song of postwar migration
Article considers the significance of the hit song Get your kicks on route 66!, written by Bobby Troup and his wife Cynthia on their road trip in 1946 from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California. The Nat King Cole Trio recorded
In 1941 the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) commissioned folk singer Woody Guthrie to write music for film and broadcasts. He wrote 26 songs for BPA in one month of employment. This Columbia River Song Collection had two main narratives