Cultural References
He is rarely heard today in mainstream musical culture; for example, his beautiful 1922 rendition of "My Buddy" was used on the soundtrack of a Boardwalk Empire episode, originally broadcast on October 8, 2012 (Season 3, Episode 4, "Blue Bell Boy"). In the 1960's, the famous ukelele-playing singer Tiny Tim frequently played Burr songs on stage and on such programs as The Johnny Carson Show.
Read more about this topic: Henry Burr
Famous quotes containing the word cultural:
“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true masculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven’t been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren’t being manly enough.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)