The Seattle World's fair was essentially a six-month long party – the “Mercer Street Carnival” some pundits called – but carnivals and parties, and transformative civic events need music.
The Seattle World’s Fair officially began 60 years ago tomorrow, and you can’t overstate the impact of that long-ago event. The fair – and all the work it took to pull it off – transformed the city and the region in positive ways, from the civic can-do spirit it fueled to tackle challenges, to the creation of Seattle Center as home to arts, culture and sports, to putting Seattle on the map as a going concern and a place all about the future.
Lest our vision of the past be clouded by gauzy sentimentality, Seattle wasn’t all sweetness and light 60 years ago, and there wasn’t exactly wholesale buy-in to the notion of these fair songs. “Everything about the Fair should be big league, not simply ‘locally good,’” he added. “Did big name composers say ‘no’ to trying their hand at a World’s Fair song?”
The Four-Do-Matics were a force in local and national Barbershop singing competitions from the 1950s to the 1970s and they made several recordings of that material that still survive. A reunion of the original members – Jim Iddings , Clayt Lacey Merv Clements , and Del Green – took place in the 1980s, according to Julie Lombardo, daughter of the late Del Green.
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