Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
"Harbor Lights"
Sometimes a Song

"Harbor Lights"

Jimmy Kennedy/Hugh Williams

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Sometimes a Song is the result of a strange mix of ethnic backgrounds and musical styles. For such a mix, today’s “Harbor Lights” takes the prize. The composer of the lyrics was Jimmy Kennedy, a man from Northern Ireland, and the composer of the tune was Wilhelm Grosz, a Jewish refugee from Austria at the time of the Anschluss, the Nazi take-over of h…

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