Yankee Doodle Dandy

TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/3/22 – YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY!

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Okay, George M. Cohan wasn’t born on the 4th of July, but close enough, and he didn’t singlehandedly invent the Broadway Musical, but close enough to call today NATIONAL YANKEE DOODLE DANDY DAY! Born a showman to a family of show people in Providence, Rhode Island on July 3, 1878, George M. Cohan was performing …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/13/22 – STEVEN FOSTER MEMORIAL DAY!

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He wrote the soundtrack for the latter half of the 19th Century. Everyone reading this knows at least a few of his compositions by heart. Before Tin Pan Alley, before the Brill Building, before Bacharach/David and before Holland/Dozier/Holland, there was the Great American Songwriter Steven Foster. Being another Yankee Doodle Dandy born on the 4th …

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