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Then came a burst of new songs along with World War One: "Pack Up Your Troubles," "Keep the Home Fires Burning," and "Till We Meet Again." Didn't we ~ing them with feeling? In 1913 the Music Supervisor's National Conference issued its first pamphlet of community songs. The results were so good moving America toward true brotherhood and spiritual awakening through mass singing, that six years later the original "55 Community Songs" doubled into "Twice 55 Community Songs." These books with tan cover and brown printing abounded in local schools of the 1920's and 1930's. They included such all-time favorites as "Beautiful Ohio," "Missouri Waltz," and "Smiles." The Roaring Twenties came in with much longlived music: Fannie Brice became "Rose of Washington Square." Al Jolson and Vincent Rose will be remembered for "Avalon." Other popular songs were "Yes, We Have No Bananas," and "Roll 'Em Girls, Roll 'Em." The prosperity of the twenties helped focus America on the college campus, and so we sang "Charlie My Boy," "Freshie" (featured by Fred Waring), and "Collegiate," with covers looking like Joe College. Henry Busse brought us "Hot Lips," and the hit of two continents, "It's Three O'Clock in the Morning." Then came "Somebody Loves Me" from "George White's Scandals" and "I' ll See You in My Dreams," by yowza, yowza Ben Bernie. The Depression did not keep Hoagy Carmichael from giving us "Lazy Bones," "Old Rockin' Chair," and "Georgia on My Mind." Rudy Vallee was "Confessin"' that he loved us. "Does Your Heart Beat for Me," and "Come to the Mardi Gras" helped make the 1930 d ecade worth turning on the radio. In the forties, but before we became involved in the war, Crosby was telling us "I Haven't Time to Be A Millionaire," (but he did anyway). In no time he introduced "White Christmas," and we've never stopped singing it. But the reality of war was upon us, and military songs like "Take 'er Down!" were a kind of catharsis for our fears and loneliness. There were songs that promoted an upbeat attitude, like "Swinging on a Star" and "It's a Good Day." The fifties added another Christmas song, "Silver Bells." We even opened up a little with our spiritual feelings by singing unabashedly "He" and "Give us This Day." The sixties saw rebellious youths and riots and love-ins. "What the World Needs Now Is Love" came early in the decade. Disney World charmed us with "It's a Small World." Living the simple life had us singing "Every-

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DID YOU HEAR BRUNSWICK SINGING? I HEAR AMERICA SINGING was the title of a song book provided for Brunswick, and presumably other, public schools around 1919. One can be sure Brunswick was always singing: it was a musicloving town. While still called Berlin, the town was finding its own niche in Civil War history while singing such songs as "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," "The Battle Cry of Freedom," and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Maybe they were singing "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight," and yes, "Maryland, My Maryland!" with words written by a Baltimorcan in Louisiana, to an old tune. The Gay Nineties reflected a new mood and new songs, some brash and risque, some sad and maudlin, some carefree and gay: "The Band Played On," "The Bowery," and "She is More To Be Pitied Than Censured." Singers in the first decade of the twentieth century welcomed new love songs: "Sweet Adeline," "Meet Mc Tonight in Dreamland;" humorous songs like "We Won't Go Home Until Morning:" more sad songs: "Silver Threads Among the Gold," "Dear Old Girl;" and one you still hear occasionally, "Casey Jones the Brave Engineer." The first half of the second decade brought "There's a Girl in the Heart of Maryland," and "When That Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'."

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