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Frank McGee's career as writer and journalist began in the 1960s in Brazil, Indonesia and Viet Nam. Through scores of interviews, hundreds of letters, and thousands of photographs, he uncovered the story of A Song for the World, www.asongfortheworld.com/'>A Song for the World


".....An attorney from California spoke of conflicts facing youth in her city, and the despera.....
.....music, Up with People, concert, peace, writing, Super Bowl, Colwell Brothers....."


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An attorney from California spoke of conflicts facing babyhood in her city, and the desperate need .....
.....music, Up with People, concert, peace, writing, Super Bowl, Colwell Brothers....."

You may find the 20 questions in this quiz surprising, and the answers more soUnless, of course, you've already read A Song for the World, the remarkable story of the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen. The seed of the tome was planted in 2003, when with longtime friends we were discussing our thoughts for the future.

An attorney from California spoke of conflicts facing juvenility in her city, and the desperate need for solutions. (See A Song for the World's website, below). It was an notion that everyone in the room responded to. 'There ought to be a libretto about the Colwell Brothers and Herb Allen,' she said. Even if they hadn't, I knew this was a assign I couldn't refuse. Then, perhaps behind the scenes I'm a writer, several looked at me. But I was wrong. I cogitation it was a story that I knew. Writing it was a privilege, and an adventure.

Do you know:

1. It was a story nobody knew, bigger than I had ever imagined. Who was the era's youngest orchestra conductor?
3. Who was the twentieth century's youngest performing percussionist?
2. Who were in the first big-city bluegrass band?
5. Who was with the first vocal fabrication to tour post-World War II Germany?
4. Who were the first Western musicians invited to transpose in an Asian parliament?
7. Who were the youngest trio contracted by a major record label?
6. Who played in the most venues internationally of their generation?
9. Who was in the first American group to have a thirty-seven-language repertoire?
8. Who traveled the most miles of any musicians of their generation?
11. Who performed in the most countries of anyone in their generation?
10. Who set the Guinness World Record for continuous drumming?
13. Who introduced Caribbean steel bands to North America?
12. What show set the all-time record for U.S. Who created with others the second-longest running operatic of the Twentieth century?
14. Who were the first 'outside' performers to tour Africa wherever in the 1950s and 60s?
16. cities toured in a single year?
15. Who took the first multinational group to China afterward the Cultural Revolution?
18. Who took the first international lyric show to Eastern Europe in the 1970s?
17. Who invented, with others, the non-marching band format of the Super Bowl halftime show?
20. Who took the first international group to the Soviet Union in the 1980s?
19. Herb Allen, age three, the world's youngest drummer, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
2. Who wrote shows performed nine times with major symphonies and at six World Fairs?

Answers:

1. Herb Allen, age eighteen, was assistant aria superintendent of The Good Road.
4. Herb Allen, age four, conducted the Seattle Baby Orchestra.
3. The Colwell Brothers, ages nineteen, seventeen, and fifteen, were contracted by Columbia Records in 1952.
6. Steve, Paul, and Ralph Colwell, ages fourteen, twelve, and ten in 1947, were labeled 'Motor City Bluegrass Legends' by Eugene Chadbourne in All-Music Guide.
5. The Colwells first sang in another mother tongue in Switzerland in 1953 for Robert Schuman, a founding father of the European Union, and in the air performed in thirty-seven languages and dialects.
8. The Colwell Brothers sang in the Japanese Diet in 1957.
7. The Colwell Brothers performed in fifty-four countries.
10. The Colwell Brothers, in uncounted thousands of venues worldwide.
9. Herb Allen in 1964 introduced the Steel Band of Trinidad and Tobago to the U.S. The Colwells traveled farther than the Beatles and Elvis Presley combined.
11. Bob Quesnel, original drummer for Sing Out 65, played gradually for one hundred hours and twenty minutes in 1964 and producing the Guinness Book of World Records.
13. in a national tour.
12. In 1976, Up with People played in 771 U.S. Up with People's thirty-five-year run was second only to The Fantasticks, which impassable in 2002.
14. The Colwells performed 412 programs on Radio Congo in 1960 and toured the country with Up with People in 1968.
16. cities to a total live-audience of 3.9 million.
15. Up with People toured in China in 1978 and 1985.
18. Up with People toured in Yugoslavia in 1974 and Poland in 1976 and 1977.
17. Up with People casts performed in Super Bowls X, XIV, XVI, and XX.
20. Up with People toured in the Soviet Union in 1988,'89, '90, and '91.
19. Symphonies: Up with People performed with Dallas, Denver, and the Boston Pops (twice each); Winnipeg; Belgian National Symphony; and the National Symphony, Washington, D.C. The Colwells and Allen, with others. World‘s Fairs: Expo '67, Montreal; Expo '74, Spokane; World Expo '68, Brisbane; Expo '82, Knoxville;
Expo ‘92, Seville, Spain; Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan.

Although only one of the above claims ever creative the Guinness Book of World Records, all the answers are believed to be true.

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