[78-L] Old Soldiers Never Die

[David Lennick]

Note that it's "Glazer", not "Glaser"..but for what it's worth, I have a KBS 
transcription where it IS spelled "Glaser". No Old Soldiers on it.

dl

On 9/13/2010 1:06 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>    Was there REALLY an "old barracks ballad of that day" that Gen
> MacArthur actually remembered??
>
> When I go to check the Vaughn Monroe recording I discover that the sheet
> music says that words and music by Tom Glaser,
> http://image2.onlineauction.com/auctions//56164/znch-1244661-1.jpg
>
> and I assume he is given like credit on the RCA Victor record.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyDldGPTDNQ
>
> The lyrics of this song could very well be an "old barracks ballad", but
> Tom Glaser isn't that old!  Unless he is just copyrighting a song that
> actually is old.  They did that a lot.
>
> On the web there are lyrics of another song which certainly could not be
> old.
> http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiOLDSLDD2.html
>
> Credited to Gene Autry, William Burch and Carl Cotner, I guess this was
> a recording Gene Autry made on Columbia.  The lyrics are all about WW II
> battles in the Pacific.
>
> So, does anybody have reference to a song with this refrain in a source
> prior to MacArthur's speech, or one that could reliably solve that
> dilemma -- such as an explanation by Glaser in something like Sing Out
> that cites his source of the song?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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