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Thread #34770 Message #471101
Posted By: GUEST,Ole Bull
26-May-01 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Listen to the Mocking Bird
Subject: RE: Help: Age of 'Listen To The Mockingbird'
The first published edition was in Phila. PA 1855; melody by Richard Milburne, written & arranged by Alice Hawthorne which was the pen name of Septimus Winner. "Whistling Dick" Milburne was a street performer, Winner a "prodigious song writer."