{"id":14945,"date":"2016-08-01T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/%c2%93south-carolina-on-my-mind-%c2%94\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:40:52","slug":"%c2%93south-carolina-on-my-mind-%c2%94","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/%c2%93south-carolina-on-my-mind-%c2%94\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;South Carolina on My Mind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State song. \u201cSouth Carolina on My Mind\u201d became an official state song in legislation approved by Governor Richard Riley on March 8, 1984. The General Assembly\u2019s intention was \u201cto help inspire pride in our State and improve the quality of life among all South Carolinians.\u201d The ballad was composed by Hank Martin and performed and recorded by him and his partner Buzz Arledge. Both were native South Carolinians and professional musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York City. Words and music were published in 1979. Martin and Arledge included it in their album <em>South Carolina on My Mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Henry Grieshaber \u201cHank\u201d Martin III was born in Columbia in 1944, brought up in Bishopville, and attended high school in Sumter. Nun Ellsworth \u201cBuzz\u201d Arledge, Jr., was born in 1944 in Sumter. The two began singing together while in high school. Beginning in the late 1970s they worked together in Nashville as performers and established Marledge, a music publishing company. Martin worked with the singer Dolly Parton and made national radio and television commercials in Nashville and New York City. He was inspired to write the state song in part by the poem \u201cA Carolina Love Song,\u201d composed by his father-in-law, the Reverend Riley Munday, a Baptist minister, humorist, and sometime poet-in-residence at Columbia College. The lyrics evoke the state\u2019s natural beauty: \u201cI\u2019ve got South Carolina on my mind, \/ Remembering all those sunshine Summer- times, \/ And the Autumns in the Smokies \/ When the leaves turn to gold \/ Touches my heart and thrills my soul \/ To have South Carolina on my mind, \/ With those clean snow-covered Wintertimes \/ And the white sand of the beaches, \/ And those Carolina peaches. I\u2019ve got South Carolina on my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hladczuk, John, and Sharon Schneider Hladczuk. <em>State Songs: Anthems and Their Origins. <\/em>Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State song. \u201cSouth Carolina on My Mind\u201d became an official state song in legislation approved by Governor Richard Riley on March 8, 1984. 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