Transcript: Interview: Chris Roberts on the reason behind the rhyme: `Yankee Doodle'

Transcript: Listener Letters: Oklahoma suicide, "Yankee ...
NPR Weekend All Things Considered;  October 23, 2005 ;     481 words ... ... 2005 Listener Letters: Oklahoma suicide, "Yankee Doodle" Host: DEBBIE ELLIOTT Time: 8:00-9:00 ... s story on the meaning behind the words to "Yankee Doodle." Chris Roberts explains that the macaroni in the song refers ...

Transcript: Yankee Doodle Lyrics
NPR Morning Edition;  July 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... and this tune: (BEING AUDIO CLIP, YANKEE DOODLE ) EDWARDS: Just about every American knows Yankee Doodle, with its relentless, jaunty melody ... were many different printed lyrics to Yankee Doodle, and most of them, as opposed to ...

Article: `YANKEE DOODLE': FROM GIBE TO PRIDE
The Boston Globe;  July 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... an American and not know the song "Yankee Doodle." It is played every Fourth of July ... In "America's Song: The Story of Yankee Doodle," New York historian and author Stuart ... the times and places through which "Yankee Doodle" traveled, changed, and grew. Despite ...

Article: It's Yankee Doodle time in Billerica.
Sun (Lowell, MA);  September 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... which can only mean one thing -- the Yankee Doodle Homecoming festivities are quickly ... until the opening ceremonies, the Yankee Doodle Committee finds its purse $3,000 ... she said following last night's Yankee Doodle press conference at the Coffee Emporium ...

Article: IT'S ALL ABOUT `YANKEE DOODLE'.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  July 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Associated Press RENSSELAER -- Think ``Yankee Doodle'' and images of Minutemen, the Spirit ... fervor, according to a new book on ``Yankee Doodle.'' Stuart Murray, author of ... says most scholarly works on ``Yankee Doodle'' virtually ignore the role Dutch ...

Article: NY researcher: `Yankee Doodle' turns 250 _ maybe
AP Online;  July 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Wish Yankee Doodle a happy 250th birthday. Maybe ... physician, is credited with penning the Yankee Doodle lyrics to mock the ragtag New England ... the story goes, Shuckburgh wrote Yankee Doodle while at Fort Crailo, across the ...

Article: Battle over Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Sun (Lowell, MA);  December 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... boyish rebel, diminutively described as Yankee Doodle Dandy by English Redcoats in singsong ... recognize Billerica as "America's Yankee Doodle Town," while Rep. Michael McNulty ... Battle of Lexington and Concord, when Yankee Doodle was turned on its head and "became ...