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  2. Iowa Stubborn - Wikipedia

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    Iowa Stubborn" is a song by Meredith Willson from his 1957 musical The Music Man. It is the first sung number in the show, following the show's unusual spoken opening, "Rock Island". The piece is sung in a schottische or "soft-shoe" rhythm.

  3. Ya Got Trouble - Wikipedia

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    "Ya Got Trouble" is a patter song by Meredith Willson from the 1957 Broadway musical The Music Man, and its 1962 filmed version. It is one of the most popular and recognizable songs in the musical. Willson considered eliminating a long piece of dialogue from his draft of The Music Man about the serious trouble facing River City parents. However ...

  4. Meredith Willson - Wikipedia

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    Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson [1] (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer.He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man [2] and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" (1951).

  5. Category:Songs from The Music Man - Wikipedia

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  6. Iowa Fight Song - Wikipedia

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    The music and lyrics were written by Iowa native Meredith Willson, also author of The Music Man, in 1950. [1] [2] The song is mostly a contrafact to his hit, "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," much in the same way that "76 Trombones" and "Goodnight, My Someone" from The Music Man are based on the same harmonic structure. [citation ...

  7. The Music Man (album) - Wikipedia

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    The Music Man (full title Jimmy Giuffre and his Music Men Play The Music Man) is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre featuring tunes from Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical, The Music Man which was released on the Atlantic label in February 1958.

  8. Category:Songs about Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Iowa Corn Song; Iowa Fight Song; Iowa Stubborn; O. On Iowa; S. The Song of Iowa This page was last edited on 13 November 2019, at 01:46 (UTC). Text is available under ...

  9. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Wikipedia

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    A popular belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel. [1] The song refers to a "tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well..."; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel, which still operates in a newer building on the same site as the old hotel. [2]