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Thread #27417   Message #2931176
Posted By: GUEST,CrackerJackLee
19-Jun-10 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Anniversary Song: 'Oh how we danced...'
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Anniversary Song: 'Oh how we danced...'
"Waves of the Danube" is a waltz composed by Iosif Ivanovici (1845–1902) published in Bucharest in 1880 and is one of the most famous Romanian tunes in the world. Jewish Composer Emile Waldteufel made an orchestration of the song in 1886. In the United States, it is known as The Anniversary Song, a title given by Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin to it when they published it in America in 1946 as their own composition and credited themselves as the composers with music by Iosif Ivanovici.