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Thread #104871   Message #2152760
Posted By: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
19-Sep-07 - 01:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Two-Shillelagh O'Sullivan
Subject: RE: Two-Shillelagh O'Sullivan
This just brought on a deja vu attack! When I first moved to San Diego, in 1967, I encountered an older gentleman walking on the beach one afernoon. I said hello, we spoke for a few minutes and went along our respective ways. He was the late actor, Preston Foster - a very nice man, unfortunately dying of cancer when we met. Fast forward two years. My roommate was dating a young lady who was a live-in assistant to an elderly widow. I was invited over to visit one day and found Mrs. Preston Foster greeting me at the door. During our visit, I was recalling movies and a TV series in which he had appeared, "Waterfront." She asked, "Did you know he wrote music too?" She then pulled out the sheet music for "Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan," which he had autographed some years earlier. I still have it. It was co-written, and I forget the other party's name. They were friends of Bing Crosby, which no doubt accounts for the recording he made.