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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Info Wanted on Typewriter music
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Date: 8 Feb 91 22:47:00 GMT
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In article <16530@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> eaker@sunbelt.crd.ge.com (Charles E Eaker) writes:
>In article <7756@chorus.fr> mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb5.212609.4371@linus.mitre.org>, jeff@retina.mitre.org (Jeff Graber) writes:
 
>>%% I am looking for the name and composer of a piece of music
>>%% that included a typewriter in it.  It was very popular in

>>Let me guess... Spike Jones? :-)

>No, it wasn't Spike Jones. I can hear snatches of the piece including
>the ringing of the bell at the end of the line. As I recall it was
>written by a "semi-serious" American composer, but I can't remember
>the name of the piece or its composer.

The piece you're looking for is "The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson,
who is perhaps better known as the composer of "Sleigh Ride",
"Fiddle Faddle", and "The Syncopated Clock".

I don't know whether it would be fair to describe Anderson as
"semi-serious"; he was clearly a "pop" composer, and there was
certainly nothing serious about either "The Typewriter" or "The
Syncopated Clock". This stuff is a couple notches down from "Flight
of the Bumblebee", to which "Fiddle Faddle" bears something of a
melodic resemblance. Anderson's stuff, with the notable exception of
"Sleigh Ride", all starts to sound alike after awhile, although I
was quite fond of it as a young piano student.

Leroy Anderson, as far as I know, was sort of a cross between Victor
Borge and Skitch Henderson.

	Jeff Carroll
	carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com
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