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Thread #50670 Message #770425
Posted By: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
23-Aug-02 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Origin: After the Ball (from Frances Black)
Subject: RE: After the ball, Frances Black
Turners Hall in Milwaukee claims to be the site for the inspiration of this song, but I think anything else is apocryphal. One story has it Charles K Harris was jilted by his girlfriend there, not at all the same story as the song. Harris may have been inspired by something he witnessed or just had the idea for the plot twist.