Indeed he was! In addition to "Listen to the Mockingbird" Septimus Winner also wrote "JOhnny has Gone fro A Soldier", and "Ten Little Indians" There are more but I don't have the list in front of me. The song was quite popular. So much so that it was parodied during the Civil War ("The Siege of Vicksburg") and was later used as the closing theme for the Three Stooges comedy shorts. Kindest reguards, Neil