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Thread #8916 Message #1396146
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
01-Feb-05 - 06:17 PM
Thread Name: Songs of the American Civil War
Subject: RE: Songs of the American Civil War
Let the Band Play is a 20th c. composition by Gibson and North, not a Civil War era song. The story is apocryphal, as noted elsewhere by Joe Offer. Thread 17279: Let the band