Sunday, June 15, 2008

Meredith Willson died today – 24 years ago

Playwright and songwriter (of The Music Man) Robert Meredith Willson was born on May 18, 1902 in Mason City, Iowa. He said, “Barbershop quartet singing is four guys tasting the holy essence of four individual mechanisms coming into complete agreement.” [Don’t think so? Then check this out.]… Mr. Willson died on June 15, 1984 in Santa Monica, California.

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