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...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...
Written and arranged by Alice Hawthorne." Winner used "Alice Hawthorne" in publishing a number of his songs. The title page of the song as published by Lee and Walker, under the copyright date of 1856, reads: "Listen To The Mocking Bird-As sung by Rose Merrifield-Written and arranged by Alice Hawthorne...
...bonneted old lady of 82 named Josephine Theriaque Caney quavered French pioneer songs that are still sung in Vincennes...
...their neighbors in Philadelphia it seemed as if the Gianninis made music all the time. The father, Ferruccio, was an oldtime opera singer who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. The mother, Antoinetta, played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Son Vittorio practiced endlessly on the piano...
...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...