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[edit] obscure song

While attending Woodrow Wilson Jr. High in Des Moines I was told that the school fight song was composed by Meredith Willson. Any idea if that could be true?

Wilson Jr. High has since been demolished. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.17.228.184 (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meredith WIllsons

I have a copy of Meredith Willson talking about the Music Man, telling the story, and singing every song on it. He is accompanied by someone he calls Renny (SP? Renie, pronounced by him as Re-nee).

I am trying to find out who she is .. I have no idea when this tape was made and can only say it really sounds like a tape of a record he may have used to market the show to the movie industry.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.. and a direct reply to Charlie Davenport, CDavenport@Barbershop.org

216.145.240.34 18:24, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Charlie Davenport

• Oh, that would be his wife, Rini. A diminutive of some Russian name, as she was Russian. As a tribute to her, he used her name in passing in The Music Man, when Harold Hill refers to "Madame Rini." Dpbsmith (talk) 21:24, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I've added to Meredith Willson's credit "For I for S Forever" as a fight song written for Iowa State University to go along with the statement that he wrote the fight song for the University of Iowa.Nathanpitsch 06:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish????

In 2005, User:Yid613 added a number of categories: diff

Certainly, Category:American songwriters and Category:Musical theatre composers are appropriate, but he also added

Category:Jewish Americans

and

Category:Jewish classical musicians

and at some point someone also added

Category:Jewish computers and songwriters

Now, just because he didn't look Jewish and whose name doesn't sound Jewish and grew up in a small town in Iowa in the early 1900s and wrote a wonderful piece of cornfed Iowa Americana certainly doesn't mean he wasn't Jewish. But there were no edit comments for the addition, and I'm pretty sure his nostalgic books (And There I Was With My Piccolo) mention attending church... and Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002, says he was a Congregationalist. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)