Carl Sandburg - References To Sandburg

References To Sandburg

• Sufjan Stevens's "Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream" (from Illinois).
• Richard Armour's poem "Driving in a Fog; or Carl Sandburg Must Have Been a Pedestrian" published in the January 1953 Westways.
• Sandburg's "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come" from The People, Yes was a slogan of the German peace movement.
• Bob Dylan's October 31, 1964 performance of "Talkin' World War III Blues".
• "Prairie" is featured in The Song and The Slogan.
• Dan Zanes's Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg for the American Songbag.
• "Grass" was covered by Bread and Roses on their 2004 demo The Workplace Is a Battlefield.
• Peter Louis van Dijk's "Windy City Songs", based on the Chicago poems was performed by the Chicago Children's Choir and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Choir in 2007.
• Andrew W.K.'s song "The McLaughlin Groove"
• Steven Spielberg claimed that the face of E.T. was based on a composite of Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, and Albert Einstein.
• Bob Gibson's "The Courtship of Carl Sandburg", starring Tom Amandes as Sandburg
• Sandburg's quote "Nothing happens unless first a dream..." is featured in the Bones 100th episode (Season 5, Episode 16) "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole".
• Two July 1978 Peanuts comic strips feature Snoopy remarking on a resemblance between Sandburg's likeness on the postage stamp and tennis player Pancho Gonzales.
• Samuel M. Steward's gay pulp collection "$tud"'s protagonist refers to Sandburg in an ironic nod to his commentary on the "painted women of Chicago" (as Steward contrarily wrote of the "male whores" of Chicago).