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Eventually, the charges of treason were dropped. Winner, who was also a businessman, published the song through his company Winner and Shuster. Milburn was credited for the melody under Winner and Shuster, but after Winner sold the copyright to another publisher, Milburn went uncredited in subseuent editions.

President Abraham Lincoln, who was said to be fond of song. Ah well I yet remember, remember, remember; Ah well I yet remember, when we gathered in the cotton side by side; Twas in the mild September, September, September; Twas in the mild September, And the mocking bird was singing far and wide. Join the discussion at a Greater Philadelphia Roundtable or add your nomination online.

It sold millions of copies of sheet music and was sung and whistled throughout the United States and parts of Europe. Philadelphia songwriter and music businessman Septimus Winner — wrote the song using a tune he heard an African American street musician whistle.

One of his entertainments was to imitate a mockingbird by whistling a particular melody. Winner took this melody and wrote lyrics to it. Septimus Winner was a well-known songwriter, music teacher, music publisher, and proprietor of a music store in mid to late nineteenth-century Philadelphia. He wrote many successful popular songs and was a poet as well. Written and arranged by Alice Hawthorne. The Philadelphia songwriter wrote many popular songs over his lifetime, including a few about the American Civil War.

I really just sit in front of the computer and listen to stuff and try to recognize structure. It's not a random thing. And that's really interesting. And I don't think the analysis takes away from the beauty of the song itself. In my books, I have long argued that for humans to best understand any phenomenon, we have to combine all the different forms of knowledge at our disposal. Neuroscience says: look at these numbers that prove our intuitions about pitch, timbre, stretch and squeeze are correct.

Each form of human knowledge has different criteria for truth. None reduces to the others or cancels each other out. Charles Darwin knew this full well, observing in The Descent of Man that birds have a natural aesthetic sense. Not one of us could have done this research alone. The paper, and all its data, are free to view in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology.

And this video version demonstrates how this bird makes such special music out of the songs of so many other birds in his habitat.

If we take its music more seriously, our own sense of music expands to care just a little more about the world of nature that surrounds us and made us possible in the first place. Follow David Rothenberg on Twitter. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Corinne Morgan, Frank C. The Mocking Bird. Elizabeth Wheeler, Harry Macdonough. Songs of the Past - No. Victor Mixed Chorus. Sibyl Sanderson Fagan. Marie Tiffany. Margaret McKee.

Alice Green and Raymond Dixon. Leake County Revelers. Freddie Fisher and His Orchestra. Louise Massey and The Westerners. Cliffie Stone and His Hometown Hepcats.

Burl Ives. George Pegram and Walter "Red" Parham. Mitch Miller and The Gang. Bing Crosby and His Friends. Sons of the Pioneers. Kenny Roberts. Bradley Kincaid. Buck Ryan. Listen to the Mockingbird. Bill Williams [US1]. Gordon Tanner, Joe Miller, Jr. Skillet Lickers with Phil Tanner. Ramona Jones. Blue Sky Boys. Rockin' Bird. Duke Mitchell. Arvel Bird. Phil Rosenthal. Stuart Duncan featuring Dolly Parton.

Liz Madden. Tom Roush. Anonymous 4 with Bruce Molsky. John Yorke Atlee. George W. Billy Golden. Whistling Mocking Bird.