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Thread #17279 Message #2819967
Posted By: Howard Kaplan
23-Jan-10 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Let the Band Play Dixie (Bob Gibson)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Let the Band Play Dixie (Bob Gibson)
The complete song by Bob Gibson is now available as part of an hour-long program, "Lincoln and Music", broadcast last year on radio station WFMT in Chicago and available as a podcast here (program #4, about halfway down the page).
The program includes some other interesting musical bits, including a late-life recording by Adelina Patti, who sang for Lincoln early in her life, and a recording of John Phillips Sousa's band playing La Marseillaise.
A spoken segment about Lincoln's requesting the playing of Dixie, followed by the song about the event, is near the end of the program.