The Parade He Rewrote - Seventy-Six Trombones Toppled Him
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The Parade He Rewrote - Seventy-Six Trombones Toppled Him
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The Parade He Rewrote - Seventy-Six Trombones Toppled Him
In this episode, we follow Meredith Willson’s long creative drift from Mason City to New York, tracing how his radio, film, and concert work ran alongside eight years of nightly revisions. What did he build - and what did he give away - while composing a town around one recurring number?
Person: Meredith Willson
Date: born May 18, 1902; funeral 1984
Location: Mason City, Iowa; River City (fictional)
Topic: Eight years of writing, thirty revisions, over forty discarded songs
Event: Composition of the show centered on "Seventy-Six Trombones"
- He marched as a boy with a Salvation Army bass drum through Mason City, learning how music organized public life.
- Trained at the Institute of Musical Art and played piccolo and flute in John Philip Sousa’s band from 1921-1924.
- Held a chair in the New York Philharmonic under Arturo Toscanini until 1929 before moving into radio and film.
- Built a radio career at KFRC and NBC, created the "Talking People" chorus, and worked for the Armed Forces Radio Service and Burns and Allen.
- Spent eight years writing a show set on a town like Mason City, producing thirty complete book revisions and composing more than forty discarded songs.
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