Septimus Winner was the composer of several catchy songs you sang as a child or have sung with your children
William Kirkpatrick was a hymn writer whose Christmas carol you have been singing all your life
Brenda Payton was lead singer for the R&B group Brenda and the Tabulations
Phebe Blessington was an up-and-coming singer-songwriter who was killed in an auto accident shortly after her 30th birthday
Singer / songwriter / A&R man Richie Barrett’s final services and cremation were at Laurel Hill West, although he is not buried there.
And yes, I will play you samples of their work, and a lot more. Get ready for ear worms galore on this month's episode of "All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories
ABC #035: Four Black Trailblazers
BBB #004: The Music Man - Theodore Presser
ABC #034: Tennis, Anyone? - Clarence Clark, Frederick Winslow Taylor, William Clothier Sr. and Jr., Howard Head
BBB #003: Becoming ”Commando Mary” - Aimee Ernesta Drinker Bullitt Beaux Barlow
ABC #033: Smile for the Birdie! Philadelphia‘s Photography Pioneers
BBB #002: Harold H. Knerr and ”The Katzenjammer Kids”
ABC #032: Teen Angels
BBB #001: Alan Calvert and the Science of Weightlifting
ABC #031: Play Ball!, Part 2
ABC #030: The Saturday Courier: Joseph Clay Neal, Louis Antoine Godey, and Morton McMichael
ABC #029: Olympiad II - Paris 1900
ABC #028: Bad Science: Dr. Samuel G. Morton, George R. Gliddon, and John Worrell Keely
ABC #027: Fathers (and Mothers) of American Medicine, Part 2
ABC #026: Encore! - William Wood, Mary Ann Lee, Frank Mayo and Wedgwood Nowell
ABC #025: Five Wister Men You May Not Know
ABC #024: Four Remarkable Women You Should Know
ABC #023: The Philadelphia Sound - Hy Lit, Billy Paul, Grover Washington Jr., Teddy Pendergrass
ABC #022: The Birds and the Bees - Ornithologists and Entomologists
ABC #021: Me and My Machine - Three Textile Barons of Laurel Hill Cemetery
ABC #020: Send the Marines!
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