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Ron Chaplin wrote:
>>...On "Who wants to be a millionaire," there was a question about who
>>wrote the Wedding March: Mozart, Wagner, Strauss and Handel. The
>>"correct" answer was Wagner!
to which Dave Lampson replied,
>There are two wedding marches in common use, one by Mendelssohn, and
>one by Wagner. It's the Wagner that has been popularized as "Here
>comes the bride". Mendelssohn's has no popular lyrics I know of.
I once heard The Mendelssohn tune accompanied by the lyric, "Ding, dong,
the cow's a widow, somebody shot the bull..."
Dave Wolf
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