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...issue of TIME, May 24, contains a review of Charles Eugene Claghorn's The Mocking Bird in which credit for writing the song, Listen to the Mocking Bird, is given to the late Septimus Winner. The review does go on to state that "Sep" got the idea for his most famous song from "Whistling Dick," a Negro beggar who used to strum his guitar and whistle like a bird...
Dick's Bird...
...very much less than adequate. Milburn was a barber who worked in his father's shop on Lombard Street in Philadelphia. He was a guitar player and a marvelous whistler, and it was he who originated the melody and at least the title of Listen to the Mocking Bird. Winner only set down the melody and arranged it after it had been played and whistled and sung over to him by Milburn. Winner may have furnished most or all of the words as published, but the life of the song springs from the melody...
...colored Episcopal church in Philadelphia. But the incontrovertible proof of Milburn's part in the making of the song is shown by its title page as originally published by Winner and Shuster, under the copyright date of 1855, which reads: "Sentimental Ethiopian Ballad-Listen To The Mocking Bird-Melody by Richard Milburn...
Leon W. Baldwin; John R. Bemis; Benjamin L. Bird; Nicholas Blatchford; Richard W. Burnett; John C. Carpenter; Edmund S. Childs, Jr.; George O. Clark, Jr.; James S. Clarke; David S. Cohen; William C. Coleman, Jr.; Henry A. Curwen; Ralph H. Cutler, Jr.; Hamilton W. Daughaday; Charles D'Autremont; David B. Hill; John L. Donnell; Beverly C. Dunn, Jr.; John D. Edgarton; William M. Fetcher; Richard F. Foss; Paul L. Franken; Joseph J. Geehern; Jerome L. Gilbert; Robert J. Glaser; Edwin St. J. Greble, 3d.; Frederick W. Griffin; Charles D. Griffith; David G. Halstead; Emrys C. Harris; Robert W. Harvey; Raymond...