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unusual facts about Home Sweet Home


C.C. Calkins

When President Harrison visited Seattle in 1891, he was taken around the lake on the sidewheeler Kirkland, with the Calkins (and other ships) travelling as escorts, with the steam calliope on Calkins playing Home Sweet Home.



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Berlin wool work

Subjects to be embroidered were influenced by Victorian Romanticism and included floral designs, Victorian paintings, biblical or allegorical motifs, and quotations such as "Home Sweet Home" or "Faith, Hope, Love".

Lasse Gjertsen

The only videos without original compositions are the two music videos, Home Sweet Home by Norwegian Rapper Sirius, and Sogno ad Occhi Aperti by Italian Cellist Giovanni Sollima.

Last Child

A cover version – which uses a less deep tuning, closes with a lengthy solo based on the A Little South of Sanity live version and the "home... sweet... home" verse repeats at the end instead of the fade-out featured on the original recording – appears in Guitar Hero II.

The Bungle Family

Originally titled Home, Sweet Home, it first appeared as part of a series of rotating strips in the New York Evening Mail.

Tom Adair

He wrote many hit songs, including "Let's Get Away From It All", "Everything Happens To Me", "In The Blue of Evening", "Will You Still Be Mine?", "Violets for Your Furs", "The Night We Called It A Day", "The Skyscraper Blues", "A Home-Sweet-Home In The Army", "How Will I Know My Love?", "Sing A Smiling Song", "Paul Bunyan", "There's No You", and "Weep No More".